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An activist for many of Mexico City's street children, in 2003 she made the film Niños de la Calle (Children of the Street), to bring attention to the fast-growing phenomenon. [2] The documentary was nominated for two Mexican Academy Awards (Premio Ariel), and won the Best Feature Documentary prize at the Morelia International Film Festival in ...
Street children. Gavroche, a fictional character in the historical novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is inspired by the street children who existed in France in the 19th century. Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the ...
The Children of Sanchez is a 1961 book by American anthropologist Oscar Lewis about a Mexican family living in the Mexico City slum of Tepito, which he studied as part of his program to develop his concept of culture of poverty. [1] The book is subtitled "Autobiography of a Mexican family". [2]
0-439-12041-1. OCLC. 43487323. LC Class. PZ7.R9553 Es 2000. Esperanza Rising is a young adult historical fiction novel written by Mexican-American author Pam Muñoz Ryan and released by Scholastic Press on 27 March 2000. [1] The novel focuses on Esperanza, the only daughter of wealthy Mexican parents, and follows the events that occur after her ...
Children “of the street” are street-based; they spend all of their time on the streets and do not have homes or contact with their families. [5] In Latin America, street children are commonplace, everyday presences. They are street vendors, street workers, and street entertainers, as well as beggars and thieves. [6]
ISBN. 0-679-43554-9. Caramelo is a 2002 epic novel spanning a hundred years of Mexican history by American author Sandra Cisneros. It was inspired by her Mexican heritage and childhood in the barrio of Chicago, Illinois. The main character, Lala, is the only girl in a family of seven children and her family often travels between Chicago and ...
Rafael López (born August 8, 1961, in Mexico City, Mexico) [1] is an internationally recognized illustrator [2] and artist. [3] To reflect the lives of all young people, his illustrations bring diverse characters to children's books. [4] As a children's book illustrator, he has received three Pura Belpré Award medals from the Association for ...
Carlos Fuentes. Carlos Fuentes Macías (/ ˈfwɛnteɪs /; [1] Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos ˈfwentes] ⓘ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York ...