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Alma Flor Ada and YOU Volume II

Ada, Alma Flor

Price: $35.00
ISBN13: 9781591582281
ISBN10: 1591582288
Book code: LU2288
Libraries Unlimited
Paperback | 128 pages
Publication Date: 01/30/2008
Series: The Author and YOU

DESCRIPTION

Following up on the first volume featuring prolific author Alma Flor Ada, this second volume offers further insight into her life and writing. Here, the author discusses her work as a poet, dramatist, writer of memoir, reteller of folktales and legends for children, and translator. She discusses her collaborative work and the processes involved in working with illustrators, songwriters, and co-author Isabel Campoy. Her work as a translator and promoter of Spanish and English books for all children?well known and valued in bilingual education-is also detailed. Finally, the book furnishes useful ideas and activities for using the author's books in the classroom to spark the writer within every young reader. Grades K-12.

Following up on the first volume featuring prolific author Alma Flor Ada, this second volume offers further insight into her life and work. Here, the author discusses her work as a poet, dramatist, writer of memoir, reteller of folktales and legends for children, and Spanish language translator. She discusses her collaborative work and the processes involved in working with illustrators, songwriters, and co-author Isabel Campoy with whom, she has founded her own publishing company, Del Sol Books. Her work as a translator and promoter of Spanish and English books for all children?well known and valued in bilingual education-is also detailed. Finally, drawing on the author's years of experience as a professor of Education and her many author visits to schools, the book furnishes useful ideas and activities for using the author's books in the classroom to spark the writer within every young reader. Grades K-12.

Following up on the first volume, Alma Flor Ada, discusses her work as a translator, poet, dramatist, writer of memoir, reteller of folktales and legends for children, and translator.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: BECOMING AN AUTHOR

PART II SHARING THE JOY OF CREATION

PART III WRITING IN MULTIPLE GENRES

PART IV: THE READERS'S VOICES

ALMA FLOR ADA is retired Professor of Education at the University of San Francisco. She is a well-known author of children's and professional books for teachers and with Isabel Campoy is the co-owner of Del Sol Books, a publishing company that specializes in Spanish language translations and materials for children.