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Elena’s Serenade (Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Commended)

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Who ever heard of a girl glassblower?
In Mexico, where the sun is known as el sol and the moon is known as la luna, a little girl known as Elena wants to blow into a long pipe…and make bottles appear, like magic.
But girls can’t be glassblowers. Or can they?
Sign up for Elena on her unbelievable journey to Monterrey — home of the great glassblowers! — in an enchanting story filled with magic realism.
A delightfully fresh take on the “anything you’ll be able to do, I will be able to do better” theme, Elena’s Serenade follows a feisty little Mexican girl on a quest to prove to her father–and herself–that she could be a glassblower, although she is a girl. Magic realism abounds as Elena journeys (dressed as a boy) to Monterrey to be informed from the great glassblowers. Along the way she meets a burro, a roadrunner, and a coyote, helping each and every of them accomplish their goals as she blows tunes through her father’s cast-off glassblowing pipe. Arriving in Monterrey, our little “muchacho” is mocked to start with, but soon silences her detractors (who continue to think she’s a boy) when she creates beautiful glass stars through her pipe. If only her Papa could see what she can do! Perhaps if she blows a giant bird (golondrina), she can fly home.

A lovely story penned by Campbell Geeslin, with lyrical acrylic and crayon art by the illustrator of Jonah Winter’s Frida, Ana Juan. Readers will revel in the whole experience–words, pictures, message, and all. (Ages 4 to 8) –Emilie Coulter

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