USA, Editorial Everest, 2002
Editorial Everest Meeting point III Reading Is Living Award, Juvenil Winner Translation: David Unger Illustrations: Ángel Esteban Lozano ISBN: 84-241-8053-4 First edition: 2002 I didn´t cry becuse I had to go to School. I love putting on a new uniform With a blue apron to keep the uniform clean; navy blue shoes, socks as white as sugar or salt or like snow, like the paper in my notebooks. Tere would tell me that I was smart because I could calculate so quickly. She assured me: “You´re going to be good at what you´ll be”, and she hugged me proudly as if I were her daughter. Every night I would repeat as if it were a prayer: “I want to be what I will be the sooner the better. During an era when dyslexia wasn´t well understood and reading and comprehension problems were considered by some to be the result of laziness or acting out, a young girle tries day after day to over come her problem. Without overdramatizing, the author introduces the issue of dyslexia into the life of the protagonist and explores its effect on her shool, friends and family. This book forms part of the “Reading living Project”. |