Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros [Hardcover]

Juan Felipe Herrera (Author), Anita De Lucio-Brock (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended (Awards)

Every Sunday Juanito helps his grandmother sell old clothes at the flea market. Romping from booth to booth among the rainbow-colored tents under the sun, Juanito and his friends fulfill Grandma’s vision of the flea market as a sharing community of friendly give and take. With every trade and barter, Juanito learns firsthand what it means to be a true rematero — a flea marketeer — and discovers that the value of community can never be measured in dollars.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Collecting churros, chiles and healing herbs, a Mexican-American boy bounds from booth to booth visiting fellow flea market vendors in Grandma and Me at the Flea or Los Meros Meros Remateros by Juan Felipe Herrera, illus. by Anita DeLucio-Brock. Evoking the feel of folk art, DeLucio-Brock's full-bleed illustrations form a colorful backdrop for side-by-side Spanish and English text.
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Ages 4-8. Juanito doesn't mind getting up at five o'clock on Sunday mornings. That's when he and Grandma Esperanza drive to the open-air flea market where, over the years, they have sold wares, and Esperanza has guided and translated for new immigrants and offered recipes, poems, comfort, and massages to tired workers. As Juanito runs happily through the stalls with his friends, the vendors repay Esperanza's kindnesses with gifts of their own--belts, fruit, jewelry, blankets--which Juanito offers to Esperanza at the story's end. The overt messages about giving, receiving, and reuse (there's no money exchanged) are balanced by the lyrical bilingual text (both languages on each spread) that celebrates the energy and warmth of the "soft city of tents and woolly walls." The parrot-colored paintings are somewhat amateurish in their rendering of people, but their folk-art details--the smiling suns and vibrantly patterned blankets--add appeal. A sunny glimpse of a Hispanic community. Gillian Engberg
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Children's Book Press (February 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892391715
• ISBN-13: 978-0892391714
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,115,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly presented and recommended bilingual picturebook., March 29, 2002

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This review is from: Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros (Hardcover)

Young Juanito works with his Grandma Esperanza in selling clothing and used books at the local community flea market. As Juanito goes about running errands and bartering goods, he finds himself in the heart of a thriving Mexican American community, one that Juanito knows to be caring and generous, whose value can never be measured only in dollars. A superbly presented bilingual (English/Spanish) picturebook written by the Mexican-American poet Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrated by folk artist Anita De Lucio-Brock, Grandma And Me At The Flea is highly recommended for young readers ages 6 to 10.

3.0 out of 5 stars Grandma and Me at the Flea, November 24, 2009

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This review is from: Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros (Hardcover)

Great illustrations but a little to long for young Pre-K to K readers. Learn about another latin-american culture going to a flea market. Recommended for upper elementary ages.