num_pages: 32
description: Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel García Márquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from his novels, Monica Brown traces the novelist's life in this creative nonfiction picture book from his childhood in Colombia to today. This is an inspiring story about an inspiring life, full of imagination and beauty.
language: English
title: My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez
titlecomplete: My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez
characters: Gabriel García Márquez
genres: Cultural, Writing, Biography, Books About Books, Picture Books, Spanish Literature, Nonfiction, Childrens, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 369
places: Colombia
series: Conoce a / Get to Know
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Pura Belpré Award
category: Illustration
publisher: Cooper Square Publishing Llc