The book shares the authors experiences immigrating to United States. He expresses the memories he has from El Salvador and what it was like to move to a new country. The book is in both English and Spanish and how the author misses and loves his grandmother who stayed in El Salvador. I would recommend this book because it gives an insight into what immigrants encounter when they move to a new country. This would be good book for 3rd graders and below and read aloud for 2nd graders. ( )

Summary: This story has poems that are written in English and Spanish. They capture the culture and beauty of the country of El Salvador. The illustrations are also extremely beautiful.

Personal reflection: The pictures were beautiful, and the poems were nicely written.

Class use: Use this book to help students write their own students. It will also help educate students about the Spanish language. ( )

This is a bilingual story about how hard moving to a new country can be. A boy leaves with his father to San Francisco. It is difficult for him because he has to leave the rest of his family behind. He misses his friends, pets, and family as he struggles to learn the new language. Not only is it hard to leave your family, but it is also very difficult to learn a second language. This book does a good job of including his struggles and successes. He finally does learn English and is so very proud of himself. This book does an accurate job of showing the child's struggles as he transitions into a new home. ( )

Argueta, J. (2001). A movie in my pillow: Una pelicula en mi almohada. San Francisco: Children’s Book Press.

In A Movie in my Pillow: Una Pelicula en mi Almohada, the author tells the story of his childhood through the use of poems. Poet Jorge Argueta escaped El Salvador and its deadly civil war with his family when he was a small child. The family sought refuge in San Francisco. This is the story of his childhood memories of El Salvador and San Francisco. He tells of the many things that are different between his new home and his old home. In addition to the poems, vibrant illustrations depict each poem. Additionally, the story is told using both English and Spanish.

This story is an example of the movement of people from a war-torn country to refuge in a different country. Many people come to America to escape poor living conditions and war. In his poems, Argueta describes the many different races that live in his new neighborhood in San Francisco. These people have all migrated from poor living conditions to better living conditions. This book is an excellent example of why groups of people chose to leave their home in search of a new one.

This can be used in a library for both English and Spanish speaking patrons. It can be used as a tool for learning to speak either language. This would be an excellent book to use with small children who have a Latino heritage or who have recently immigrated here from a different country. Additionally, it can be used in a classroom (English or Reading) as an example of multicultural poetry. ( )

Review: This is a good example of a poetry book. It was originally written in Spanish and then translated to English so the part I can understand does no rhyme, but is still poetry. The text is written in stanzas and each page has a new title and discusses something new, all of them related to his life in El Salvador.

Setting: The setting is an integral part of the story since he is in San Fransisco and has just moved from El Salvador. If we did not know this information the story would not make sense.

Media: Watercolors