Dreamers Video

Caldecott Honor-book artist and five-time Pura Belpré Award winner Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope . . . and reading. In 1994, 25-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Xalapa, Mexico, to the San Francisco Bay Area with her two-month-old son, Kelly, in order to secure permanent residency in this country. Her passage was not easy and she spoke no English whatsoever. But due in large measure to help and guidance provided by area children's librarians, she learned English as her young son learned to read, through the picture books they shared together. In spare, lyrical verse and the vibrant images for which she has become legendary, Yuyi has created a lasting testament to the journeys, both physical and metaphorical, that she and Kelly have taken together in the intervening years. Beautiful and powerful at any time, but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. holidayhouse.co...

[@ginamora910]

Wow amazing I love it thank you. So inspiring

[@mayralovesbooks]

Beautiful words, Yuyi. And lovely art, as usual. I had to order the Dreamers/Soñadores in English and in Spanish. So glad the books are coming out on the same day. No puedo esperar a que lleguen los libros... ¡Que lleguen los libros, que lleguen los libros!

[@CraigSeasholes]

There are many readers of Dreamers/Soñadores thrilled by your upcoming visit to Seattle.

[@matestelle7550]

You're so beautiful thanks for sharing your story

[@YoungAtArt]

I would like to play this video at a children's workshop held in a library in Connecticut funded by a grant. May I have permission for this in October 2021?

[@bonnylithas3186]

Very moving book

[@leilaboukarim]

What a beautiful message.

[@karenhart7169]

I think she said chores not shirts and Sonadores not Sonia Doris.

[@elizabethgalindo3788]

I don't like

[@user-fn5tn7uy2d]

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[@christinamedina4783]

i love it

[@christinamedina4783]

answer yuyi