

(Harcourt, Inc., 2003) Winner Blurb: Morales uses brightly colored acrylics, handmade stamps, and computer-generated cutouts to depict the life of this civil rights leader. Back-breaking work in the fields is shown. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez Winner Description: Yuyi Morales, Illustrator. In this Pura Belpre award-winning picture book, illustrated by Caldecott Honree Yuyi Morales, acclaimed author. When Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. There are references to the farmworkers facing violence from the landowners, "from punches to bullets" and "sometimes even murder," but none is shown on the page, other than landowners or police looking menacing in face-offs with the workers. An inspirational book about resistance and hope. As a young boy, Cesar Chavez grew up on an 80-acre ranch in Arizona in the midst of joyous family reunions. It traces his life from his pleasant early childhood in Arizona on his family's ranch to the harsher realities of life in California where his family became migrants, working the fields in difficult working conditions, leading to his organizing and co-founding the National Farm Worker Union and bettering the pay and working conditions for farm laborers. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. Parents need to know that Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull and vividly illustrated by Yuyi Morales, is a picture book biography of the late labor leader and civil rights activist. I speak Spanish."ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Yoto says: Award-winning author Kathleen Krull celebrates our most important Hispanic civil rights leader. Insulting sign a teacher forces Cesar to wear at school in California reads: "I am a clown. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.
