![]() ![]() Sometimes young Anna feels like a bird, sometimes like a jack rabbit, sometimes like a bee, sometimes like a kitten. ![]() I would love this picture book even if I weren't an immigration attorney! The story follows Anna and her family, Mennonites from Mexico, as they travel to Canada every year to work on farms harvesting fruits and vegetables. MIGRANT combines literature with social studies in a wonderful, thought-provoking way. While some young children might struggle with the comparisons, overall this would be a great book to read in class or as a homeschool project. This richly illustrated picture book represents a lyrical and unconventional look at migrant workers. As we find out in the author's note, they are Mennonites who split their hard, humble lives between Mexico and Canada. But with fair skin, strawberry hair, and German accents, these are not the migrant workers most people normally think of. Anna wonders what it would be like to be a tree - rooted to one place, letting the seasons change while she remains.Īnna belongs to a family a migrant workers. When she goes to the store, she is just shy: trying to catch that mumble of foreign words. ![]() At night, she is a kitten, cuddled close to her sisters. Hers is a family of bees -going from plant to plant all day long. She feels like a jackrabbit, living in someone else's borrow. ![]() With her family, she heads north in the spring, and south again in the fall. ![]()
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