num_pages: 32
description: Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains. He remembers his mother's songs and poetry, and his father's stories and his calling the doves. For Juan Felipe, the farmworker road was also the beginning of his personal road to becoming a writer.
language: English
title: Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas
titlecomplete: Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas
genres: Language, Picture Books, Childrens, Spanish Literature, Biography, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 149
publisher: Children's Book Press