A Fair Trade Book--Later
(That's the English edition, which is what I have, but obviously this book had to have a Spanish edition, and this web site recommends getting both so kids can read them together.)
Title: Isla
(That's the English edition, which is what I have, but obviously this book had to have a Spanish edition, and this web site recommends getting both so kids can read them together.)
Title: Isla
Date: 1995
Publisher: Penguin/Puffin
ISBN: 0-14-956565-1
Length: 37 pages of text and pictures
Illustrations: color paintings by Elisa Kleven
Quote: “Today she’s telling me about la isla, the island where she grew up.”
Little Rosalba sits on her grandmother’s knee and imagines the Caribbean island where the grandmother grew up. This is the same Rosalba, and the same grandmother, some readers had met in an earlier picture book about New York City:
As stories, these books offer little, but as picture books both are treasure chests of shining jewels. If you like bright colors and lively patterns, you’ll want to keep Isla around for inspiration. Even the cat is a splendidly detailed “tortie.” Lizards, wild parrots, tropical owls, angelfish, bananaquits...there’s so much to see on la isla.
These books have been out long enough that used editions are widely available. However, they can still be bought new from the publisher, which is more useful to Arthur Dorros right now, and is recommended. When the publisher lets Isla and Abuela go out of print, then they'll be available as Fair Trade Books at our usual rate of $5 per book, $5 per package, and $1 per online payment. (All three books shown, plus a few more of the same size, would fit into one $5 package.)
You can commission a doll dressed like Rosalba, from this web site, for $10 plus $5 for shipping and $1 per online payment. (Hand-knitted doll outfits don't offer room for all the details in the printed fabrics Rosalba and her grandmother wear, though.) You can also commission a hand-knitted blanket in colors that match a picture of your choice from either of these books, for $100 plus $5 for shipping and $2 per online payment. You could even commission a sweater in colors that match one of these pictures, although the fad for sweaters knitted in forty different colors has passed...the style of sweaters Rosalba and her grandmother wear in Abuela would be much easier to wear in real life, and much quicker and cheaper to knit.
You can commission a doll dressed like Rosalba, from this web site, for $10 plus $5 for shipping and $1 per online payment. (Hand-knitted doll outfits don't offer room for all the details in the printed fabrics Rosalba and her grandmother wear, though.) You can also commission a hand-knitted blanket in colors that match a picture of your choice from either of these books, for $100 plus $5 for shipping and $2 per online payment. You could even commission a sweater in colors that match one of these pictures, although the fad for sweaters knitted in forty different colors has passed...the style of sweaters Rosalba and her grandmother wear in Abuela would be much easier to wear in real life, and much quicker and cheaper to knit.
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