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Clemente! (2010)

by Willie Perdomo(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0805082247 (ISBN13: 9780805082241)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

review 1: Clemente! starts off with a little boy learning about where his name originated from. His father then tells him the story of a great baseball player, Roberto Clemente. Roberto Clemente had a long career with the Pittsburgh Pirates team. He informs his son that Clemente was the first Latino to be inducted in to the baseball hall of fame. He was a baseball player and philanthropist. Unfortunately he passed away in a plane crash flying to Nicaragua for charity work. This book is great for talking about embracing one's cultural identity and individuality. Clemente's father wants him to be proud of his Latino heritage and whom he was named after for he was a true hero. I would put this on the shelves of my classroom library, I was just not crazy about this book because it did n... moreot really spark my personal interests. I am not a sports fan so when they talked about Roberto Clemente's baseball statistics I was a little lost. But I would love to have some of my athletic students enlighten me on what it is those statistics truly mean.I would use this book to lead in to a geography lesson about where exactly Roberto Clemente was from and where we as a class could locate that country on a map. Then we could do more research on Clemente together finding all the places he went and locate those destinations on our map too. We could show his journey on our map by using string to connect each place to show how far his great efforts stretched to. This book would work best for children in 1st-4th grade.Themes: Latino culture, history, baseball, civil rights, cultural identity
review 2: I loved this book so much. I wish I had had this book when my sons were small. I might just read it to them anyway. I love the language, the back and forth with Spanish and English, the rhythms, the on again off again rhymes... At first I was afraid this would just be about baseball, but the book did not disappoint. It got to the person as well. Written from the point of view of a little boy named Clemente, the book emphasizes the importance of honoring those who came before and paved the way... less

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