His books have received many awards over the years. Highly recommended.- Kirkus Reviews From the beginning, the format of this book shows its uniqueness with the codex form used by Mixteco.- The News & Observer Remarkable.The artwork is deliberately evocative of Mesoamerican logography, with figures and perspectives that feel at once bizarre and totally familiar.- Vulture With its explicit political messages, this book is unique in the picture book canon.- NBC online STARRED REVIEW: Multiple Pura Belpr Medal and Honor- awarded Tonatiuh (Diego Rivera, 2011) channels his interest in the Mixtec codex format to create a superb modern odyssey, stupendously illustrated in his signature contemporary adaptation of Pre-Columbian art forms, presented on accordion pages in a handsome slip-box.- Booklist About the Author Duncan Tonatiuh was born in Mexico City and grew up in San Miguel de Allende.
citizens often display toward undocumented immigrants.- Shelf Awareness By focusing on the narrative of one immigrant worker, Tonatiuh breaks the mammoth issues of immigration and workers rights into an easy-to-swallow bite, allowing the reader to easily engage with an often intimidating topic. is an all-too-real discussion about fair pay and the hostility U.S. a gorgeous, timely, and necessary offering about the daily plight of undocumented workers in the United States.- Library Journal Undocumented. Though he is able to get a job as a busboy at a restaurant, he is severely undercompensated-he receives less than half of the minimum wage! Risking his boss reporting him to the authorities for not having proper resident papers, Juan risks everything and stands up for himself and the rest of the community. Struggling for money, Juan crosses over into the United States and becomes an undocumented worker, living in a poor neighborhood, working hard to survive. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields to help provide for his family. The story is told via the ancient Mixtec codex-accordion fold-format. Every day, these men and women join the work force and contribute positively to society.
Book Synopsis Undocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers.
About the Book Book is in a two-sided accordion-fold format.
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