IslandbornWritten by: Junot DíazIllustrated by: Leo Espinosa
Islandborn is a beautiful book filled with striking patterns, texture, and color. Young Lola is assigned a project at school to draw a picture of her first home. She was so little when she left though that she doesn't remember her beloved island home. She sets out on a quest to ask her family and friends to describe their favorite parts of the island so that she can make a picture in her mind. She hears about many beautiful and terrible things from the island, and patches them all together into a colorful book to bring to her class.
This book is great because it students of all ages can connect with it. It is mostly geared toward elementary-aged students, but there are deeper messages of activism and political unrest in the pages that older students would be able to recognize and connect with as well. When this book is read, it evokes images of home and encourages students to share their favorite parts of home (whether that's in America or somewhere else). This book is a great resource for EL teachers who have students coming from many places in the world because it depicts a class of diverse students coming together and sharing about their original home. This is something that EL students would easily connect with.
Book introduction, by Junot Díaz: https://youtu.be/DzU5_TIVijA
Islandborn is a beautiful book filled with striking patterns, texture, and color. Young Lola is assigned a project at school to draw a picture of her first home. She was so little when she left though that she doesn't remember her beloved island home. She sets out on a quest to ask her family and friends to describe their favorite parts of the island so that she can make a picture in her mind. She hears about many beautiful and terrible things from the island, and patches them all together into a colorful book to bring to her class.
This book is great because it students of all ages can connect with it. It is mostly geared toward elementary-aged students, but there are deeper messages of activism and political unrest in the pages that older students would be able to recognize and connect with as well. When this book is read, it evokes images of home and encourages students to share their favorite parts of home (whether that's in America or somewhere else). This book is a great resource for EL teachers who have students coming from many places in the world because it depicts a class of diverse students coming together and sharing about their original home. This is something that EL students would easily connect with.
Book introduction, by Junot Díaz: https://youtu.be/DzU5_TIVijA
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