Ms. Carmona's child Lit.

      Poetry is a genre were we can express our feelings, be funny, express our thoughts, etc. I personally love poetry because I just believe that we never stop learning from it. The picture book I pick is Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrated by Lauren Castillo and the anthology of poetry I choose is called Ink Knows No Borders Edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond Foreword by Javier Zamora and afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud.  Imagine is a poem written by Juan Felipe Herrera, who invites his readers to imagine or dream what would happen. The poem was an autobiography of his life. In the picture book we can see that Juan Felipe Herrera love been with his mother and family. We can also depict that he immigrated to the United States when he was just a boy. In his poem Juan Felipe Herrera said that he imagine being in a school where he did not know the language, the culture, and the people. He finally adjusted himself to his reality and was able ...

Contemporary realistic fiction is a way of looking at stories that are based on reality, but their characters are fictionalized. Most of the time these books are talking about different types of problems society is going through. For example, immigration, physical abuse, emotional abuse, divorce parents, etc. The picture book that I choose are First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg and illustrated by Judy Love and the novel A Step from Heaven by An Na.    The picture book I choose is called First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg and illustrated by Judy Love. The main character in the story is a teacher called Sarah Jane Hartwell. The story is portrayed for us the readers to imagine that Sarah is a student and that she is scared about the first day of school, until the end readers can figure out that the story was talking about a teacher. Sarah tries all kinds of excuses in order to miss her first day of school. She does not want to go because she says, “I don’t want to start over ...