Soledad Sigh-Sighs / Soledad Suspiros [Spanish]

By Rigoberto González

Book Overview

Bilingual English/Spanish. A picture book about eight-year-old Soledad, a latchkey child whose friends come up with an imaginative solution to make Soledad feel less lonely when she gets home from school.

Eight-year-old Soledad dreads coming home to her lonely house every day after school. She invents an imaginary sister to keep her company at first, but a much better solution emerges from the imagination and curiosity of two good friends from the neighborhood.

Prize-winning poet and writer Rigoberto Gonz?lez has crafted a delicate and touching tale about a latchkey child's loneliness and her friends' lively ingenuity in dealing with this all too common concern. Artist Rosa Ibarra's lovely, thoughtful illustrations bring a New York neighborhood to life in warm pastel tones.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0892393092
• ISBN13: 9780892393091
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Children's Book Press (CA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3

Customer Reviews

A poignant and enduring story written for young readers

Soledad Sigh-Sighs/Soledad Suspiros by Rigoberto Gonzalez is an absorbing bilingual (English/Spanish) picturebook about Soledad, an eight-year-old latchkey girl who comes home from school to an empty house, because everyone else in the house has to work all day. At first she creates an imaginary sister to be with her, but then she starts to make real friends in her neighborhood. A poignant and enduring story written for young readers just about ready to graduate from picturebooks to kids' prose books, warmly illustrated by Rosa Ibarra.