Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (Pura Belpre Honor Book, ALA Notable Book, Jane Addams Picture Book Award, Christopher Award Honor Book, Americas Award, Southern California Children’s Booksellers Award, School Library Journal’s “Best Children’s Books,” Book Links 'Lasting Connections').Lives of the Presidents (New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Award, the Oregonian’s Best Children’s Books of the Year, Voya’s Best Nonfiction of 1998, ABC Booksellers Choice, IRA-CBC Children’s Choice).Lives of the Musicians (Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award, the PEN West Children’s Literature Award, Society of Children’s Book Writers’ Golden Kite Honor Award, Nonfiction Award from the Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People, ALA Notable Book, IRA Teacher’s Choice, Chicago Sun-Times’ “Best 100 Books of the Century”).Ages 6-9.Krull has written some 60 books, most notably biographies. The visual statement is as powerful as the story. Sweeping, organic brushstrokes often angle diagonally, painting purple skies above green California fields or dividing rows of brown earth.

Using the bright colors of Mexican art, she skews the landscapes to reflect the characters' emotions. Debut illustrator Morales's mixed-media, full-bleed art taps into folkloric qualities that enhance the humanity of the characters. I speak Spanish.' The author also stresses Chavez's struggles to overcome extreme shyness and his commitment to nonviolent means of protest, demonstrating the latter in a climactic account of the landmark farm workers' strike and protest march led by Chavez in 1965. Krull selects details that the target audience will readily understand for example, she notes that Chavez attended 35 schools (he left after eighth grade) and that a teacher once hung a sign on him that read 'I am a clown. A lyrical portrait of a glorious early boyhood on his family's Arizona ranch opens the sympathetic narrative and explains that drought forced the family off their land in 1937 and consigned them to the grueling life of itinerant manual farm labor.

series) turns readers' attention to Cesar Chavez (1927–1993), founder of the National Farm Workers Association and champion of migrant workers.

Harvesting Hope by Kathleen Krull