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Marinez-Neal, Juana.
ALMA AND HOW SHE GOT HER NAME
Somerville : Candlewick, 2018
IL K-3
ISBN 9781536205305

(2 booktalks)

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 Booltalk #1

Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela. Whew! What a name! Alma doesn't think it is a very good name. And she doesn't think it fits her. When she asks her father why he gave her such a name, he explains where her name came from. Do you have a story about your name?

Booktalk #2

In this 2019 Caldecott Honor Book and Juana Martinez-Neal’s debut picture book as author-illustrator, she opens a treasure box of discovery for children curious about their own names. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Read this book to find out. (Prepared by: Debbie Oswald, Gilbert Primary School, dfoswald@lexington1.net)  (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021)

SUBJECTS:   
  • Families -- Fiction.
  • Names, Personal -- Fiction.

 
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