This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood.
For Juan Felipe, the farmworker road was also the beginning of his personal road to becoming a writer..
He remembers his mother\'s songs and poetry, and his father\'s stories and his Calling the doves.
In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains.
Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera\'s story of his migrant farmworker childhood.
Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera\'s story of his migrant farmworker childhood.
Bilingual English/Spanish.
Full-color illustrations.
This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood
