My Pal Victor: Mi Amigo, Victor (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Bertrand, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972019294 ISBN 13: 9780972019293

Publisher: Raven Tree Press, 2004

Synopsis

Two boys enjoy the summer doing all of the things that boys do despite one boy's disability. Full story in English and again in Spanish.

About this title

From the Publisher:

My Pal, Victor / Mi amigo, Victor is the winner of the ALA's (American Library Association) 2004 Schneider Family Award. The award honors an author and illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

My Pal, Victor / Mi amigo,Victor was also selected for inclusion on the 2004 New York Suggested Reading List

From the Inside Flap:

Why do we choose the friends we do? Dominic knows. He explains just how special his pal Victor really is. After all, Victor tells heart-booming ghost stories, claps the loudest at Dominic’s baseball games, and performs a fabulous floating frog stroke. Two young boys experience a spirited, carefree friendship that transcends one boy’s disability.

Sweetland’s traditional illustrative style and full-spectrum use of his colored pencil palette on soft tissue paper creates an interesting effect that evokes the everyday charm and warmth that the story portrays.

"...It’s such a gentle treatment of the disability, that it’s quite incidental to the story that will appeal to kids ages four to eight... It’s an admirable book that deserves a place in any child’s library." —San Antonio Woman Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Raven Tree Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0972019294
• ISBN 13: 9780972019293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32