When Alma Flor writes in English, she focuses more on the storyline, which lends itself to novels and memoirs. She currently resides in Marin County, California, and has nine grandchildren. Gathering the Sun won the Once Upon a World Book award in 1998. In 1970, she and her four children relocated permanently to the United States. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholars Exchange Grant and appointed a Radcliffe Institute scholar at Harvard University and prepared her dissertation for publication, Pedro Salinas: El diálogo creador. She completed her Ph.D at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After a year at Barry College in Miami, she earned a Diploma de Estudios Hispanos with an Excellency Award at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. After completing high school in Cuba, she earned a scholarship to attend Loretto Heights College. At the age of fifteen, she traded a quinceañera party for summer school in the United States, thus beginning her life as a bilingual person. A Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, she is recognized for her work promoting bilingual and multicultural education in the United States.īorn in 1938 in Camagüey, Cuba, she grew up in a family of storytellers, poets, and educators, hearing traditional tales retold by her grandmother, father, and uncle. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers All about Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English by Alma Flor Ada.
Urn:oclc:732736823 Republisher_date 20140506080723 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140430065959 Scanner Flor Ada is an award-winning Cuban-American author of children's books, poetry, and novels. Click to read more about Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English by Alma Flor Ada.
Urn:lcp:gatheringsun00alma:epub:c7d263bc-7f99-47e2-bb68-0c2ae3f235db Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gatheringsun00alma Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6qz4vw1m Invoice 11 Isbn 0439250773ĩ780439250771 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7511352M Openlibrary_edition Alma Flor Ada Simon Silva Rosa Zubizarreta - A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet. Urn:lcp:gatheringsun00alma:lcpdf:a827e32b-9f27-4973-8468-e609b944c6da Get this from a library Gathering the sun : an alphabet in Spanish and English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:59:28 Boxid IA1117515 Boxid_2 BWB220141001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English Hardcover ApSpanish Edition by Alma Flor Ada (Author), Simon Silva (Illustrator) 66 ratings Teachers pick See all formats and editions Hardcover 15.81 63 Used from 1.55 15 New from 12.67 1 Collectible from 15.00 Paperback 7.99 54 Used from 1.
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