by Juan Felipe Herrera · Publishers Group West · tapa dura · ISBN 9780892391875
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«Super Cilantro Girl / La superniña del cilantro» is the children's picture book by Juan Felipe Herrera, published by Children's Book Press in hardback (32 pages, bilingual in Spanish and English).
Esmeralda, an eight-year-old girl, becomes a fifty-foot-tall superheroine and flies to the border to rescue her mother, who stayed in Mexico unable to return to the United States because she lacked her green card. The story, with illustrations by Honorio Robledo Tapia, addresses family separation, identity, and imagination as a refuge from childhood fears.
Bilingual edition in Spanish and English, published in 2003 with illustrations by Honorio Robledo Tapia. Part of Children's Book Press's children's catalogue on Latin culture.
Juan Felipe Herrera is an American poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States poet laureate from 2015 to 2017. He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry.
