Song of the swallows
- Date:
- [1949]
- Author:
- Politi, Leo, 1908-1996, author.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH P769 S66 1949 LOCAL
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- ISBN:
- 9780892369898
- Abstract:
- Every summer, the swallows leave San Juan Capistrano and fly far away, to a peaceful green island - but they always come back in the spring, on St. Joseph's Day. Juan loves las golondrinas, and so does his friend, Julian, the gardener at the mission. This year, Juan plants a garden in his own yard. There's nothing he wants more than for the swallows to nest there. And on St. Joseph's Day, his dream comes true. Leo Politi is the beloved author and illustrator of Pedro, The Angel of Olvera Street, among many other books for children. Song of the Swallows won the Caldecott Medal in 1950. -- from Lexile website.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, music ; 26 cm
- Series:
- Caldecott Medal Book ; 1950.
- Notes:
- Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 4.6 0.5 SD Quiz 29782 English fiction.
- Curator Notes:
- Scribner's, c 1949 [c 1948 by Politi], inscribed 1950 [with a dust jacket from a much later printing]; spine repaired with tape, front cover vignette printed in blue on gray cloth
- Subjects:
- Swallows Juvenile fiction, Missions California Juvenile fiction, Swallows Fiction, Songbirds Fiction, Missions Fiction, Mexican Americans Fiction, Missions, Swallows, Swallows Fiction. sears, Missions California Fiction. sears, Swallows Fiction, and Missions California Fiction
- Genres/Forms:
- Caldecott Medal Winner 1950, Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Fiction. lcgft, Picture books. lcgft, Dust jackets (Binding) 1949. rbbin, Publishers' advertisements 1949. rbgenr, and Bookplates (Provenance) 1949. rbprov
- Corporate Names:
- Mission San Juan Capistrano Fiction
- Geographic Terms:
- San Juan Capistrano (Calif.) Juvenile fiction, California Juvenile fiction, California Fiction, California, California San Juan Capistrano, and California Fiction. sears
- Titles:
- Caldecott Medal Books, 1950
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