Nancy Kotkin's Reviews > Dreamers

This is a beautiful, personal story of a mother and son who immigrate from Mexico to the United States with limited English, and then discover the treasure of public libraries. The child is an infant, but there is plenty of kid appeal in the bold colors of the fanciful art, the bond between the mother and son, and the gift that is children's literature.

I would have given this book 5 stars except for the purposely misleading title. In the author's note at the back of the book, Yuyi Morales states that neither she nor her son were "dreamers" in the political sense of the word. Yet with all the possible, and better, titles for this book, the word Dreamers was chosen to misrepresent this author's journey, capitalizing on the trendiness of that topic, even though this picture book does not even include that subject other than within the note of clarity in the back of the book. The story was enough to stand on its own without that forced connection.