The Dream on Blanca's Wall: Poems in English and Spanish Book

This book resembles with "My Name is Jorge: On Both Sides of River" in many ways. It is a collection of 24 beautiful poems that introduces readers about a young Latina girl who lives in a barrio. Each poem is unique and is equally important from one another, because at the end, they all become as a big "picture" that the author wanted to share with her readers. However, what makes this book even more interesting is that this final picture may differ from one reader to another reader-one might imagine a picture of a "passion" that the girl has in the book, and the other might imagine a picture of a "family love" that allowed both the girl and her family to become one as they overcome their struggles together, and so on-as the author correlated not only one type of topic, but many. The book introduces a peek of many different social and cultural groups, and teaches them through the eyes of these groups.
As a result, young readers can learn not only about different point of views and cultures, but also the importance of coming to understanding, and to embrace and respect other students with different backgrounds than themselves.The fact that the book is written in both English and Spanish, it even broadens its spectrum of readers to make connections to it. As all good poems have, this book is also full of expressive and figurative languages that allows its young readers to "picture" and understand better.