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The field / words by Baptiste Paul ; pictures by Jacqueline Alcántara.

Paul, Baptiste, (author.). Alcántara, Jacqueline, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"Vini! Come! The field calls!" cries a girl as she and her younger brother rouse their community - family, friends, and the local fruit vendor - for a pick-up soccer (futbol) game. Boys and girls, young and old, players and spectators come running - bringing balls, shoes, goals, and a love of the sport. "Friends versus friends" teams are formed, the field is cleared of cows, and the game begins! But will a tropical rainstorm threaten their plans? The world's most popular and inclusive sport has found its spirited and authentic voice in Baptiste Paul's debut picture book - highlighting the joys of the game along with its universal themes: teamwork, leadership, diversity, and acceptance. Creole words (as spoken as Saint Lucia, the author's birthplace island in the Caribbean) add spice to the story and are a strong reminder of the sport's world fame. Bright and brilliant illustrations by debute children's book illustrator Jacqueline Alcántara - winner of the We Need Diverse Books Illustration Mentorship award - capture the grit and glory of the game and the beauty of the island setting that inspired this particular field. -- From dust jacket.
Children form teams, build a pitch, and play a joyous game of soccer, in a book with English and Creole (as spoken in Saint Lucia) vocabulary words.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735843127
  • ISBN: 0735843120
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
  • Publisher: Zürich, Switzerland : NorthSouth Books, Inc., an imprint of NordSüd Verlag, 2018.
  • Distributor: New York : Distributed in the United States by NorthSouth Books, Inc.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical reference.
Target Audience Note:
230L Lexile
Structure indicator: 80 (high) Syntactic indicator: 20 (low) Semantic indicator: 70 (medium) Decoding indicator: 40 (medium) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 1 0.5 193706.
Accelerated Reader 1.0.
Language Note:
Text in English and Haitian French Creole.
Awards Note:
Horn Book Fanfare List, 2018
Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018
School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

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Subject: Soccer stories > Juvenile fiction.
Sports stories.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
Saint Lucia > Juvenile fiction.
Haiti > Juvenile fiction.
Creole dialects > Juvenile fiction.
Soccer > Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION > Sports & Recreation > Soccer.
JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > Caribbean & Latin America.
JUVENILE FICTION > Social Themes > Friendship.
Sports stories.
Picture books for children.
Friendship.
Creole dialects.
Soccer stories.
Haiti.
Saint Lucia.
Soccer > Fiction.
Bilingual books > English-Haitian Creole.
Genre: Soccer stories.
Soccer stories.
Easy.
Picture books.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Picture books.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

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Baptiste Paul is a children’s picture book author. His first book for NorthSouth, The Field, received 3 starred reviews and won the Sonia Lynn Sadler Award, was a Junior Library Guild selection, and also appeared on the Horn Book Fanfare Best of 2018, the School Library Journal Best of 2018, and the CCBC 2018 Choices lists. Baptiste loves sports, likes to roast his own coffee, and grills. He lives in Wisconsin with his family.

Jacqueline Alcántara is a children’s picture book illustrator. Her debut picture book, The Field, written by Baptiste Paul, received 3 starred reviews and won the Sonia Lynn Sadler Award, was a Junior Library Guild selection, and also appeared on the Horn Book Fanfare Best of 2018, the School Library Journal Best of 2018, and the CCBC 2018 Choices lists. Jacqueline’s favorite days are spent drawing, painting, writing, and walking her dog. She lives in Chicago.

Baptiste Paul is a children's picture book author. His first book for NorthSouth, The Field, received 3 starred reviews and won the Sonia Lynn Sadler Award, was a Junior Library Guild selection, and also appeared on the Horn BookFanfare Best of 2018, the School Library Journal Best of 2018, and the CCBC 2018 Choices lists. Kirkus Reviews calls his new book, Peace (2021), 'A visually splendid primer on peace.' Baptiste loves sports, likes to roast his own coffee, and grills. He lives in Wisconsin with his family.
 

Jacqueline Alcántara is a freelance author and illustrator. She spends her days drawing, painting, writing and walking her dog. Jacqueline studied art education, attended a summer intensive at Parson's New School of Design, and went on to enroll in the Illustration Certificate program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She has managed an art gallery in Chicago, worked at NBC's set decoration department, and at Soho House Chicago. She is particularly excited about promoting inclusiveness and diversity in children's literature and the illustration field in general. In 2016, she won the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Illustrator Mentorship Award. Find out more at: jacquelinealcantara.com

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