Cover of My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez

My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez

Part of the Conoce a / Get to Know series

Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from his novels, Monica Brown traces the novelist's life in this creative nonfiction picture book from his childhood in Colombia to today. This is an inspiring story about an inspiring life, full of imagination and beauty.

Subject
biography
Themes
diversitywriters
Setting
20th centuryspainlatin america
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred Shares picture books, multicultural, childrens
  2. Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day; Celebremos El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros Shares picture books, bilingual, multicultural
  3. The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos Shares picture books, bilingual, childrens
  4. My Abuelita Shares picture books, multicultural, childrens

“People who read My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Frida: Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!
  2. Papá and Me
  3. Los Gatos Black on Halloween
  4. Just a Minute!

“If you want more of the same (biography about diversity), start with these.”

  1. Lucy Maud Montgomery
  2. Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery
  3. Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan
  4. John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien

“If it was the bilingual that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que creció en el Bronx
  2. Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia
  3. Quinito's Neighborhood/El Vecindario de Quinito
  4. Gracias/Thanks

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. When I Wore My Sailor Suit
  2. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  3. Camille and the Sunflowers: A Story about Vincent van Gogh
  4. Owly & Wormy, Friends All Aflutter!