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Botas de fútbol, Las

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Las botas de fútbol, de María Fernanda Heredia y editorial ecuatoriana, con ilustraciones de Patricia Calle, sigue a un joven que sueña con unas botas de fútbol que cambiarán su vida. Con la sensibilidad y el humor que caracterizan a la autora, esta novela bilingüe celebra los sueños, el esfuerzo y el descubrimiento de que lo que realmente importa no siempre es lo que creíamos.

English Description:

Las botas de fútbol by María Fernanda Heredia and an Ecuadorian publisher, with illustrations by Patricia Calle, follows a young person who dreams of football boots that will change their life. With the sensitivity and humor characteristic of the author, this bilingual novel celebrates dreams, effort, and the discovery that what really matters is not always what we thought.

Publishing Details

Author : Frederik Hetmann

Illustrator : Patricia Calle

Author Nationality : Ecuador

Type of Spanish : Authentic

Physical Details

Type of Book: Chapter

Cover: Softcover

Pages: 92

Size: 6 x 8.5 inches

Year Published: 1998

Instructional Details

Reading Grade Level: 2nd

Genre: Fiction

Sub-Genre: Realistic Fiction

Teacher Comments: [2023] I dislike it very much and would never recommend it for classroom use. It has four short stories -- all of them have inappropriate content and/or language. The first one mentions a girl reading magazines about sex, becoming obsessed about a fútbol player with whom she has a pretend friendship, and ends with her soccer buddies getting mad and putting the player's jersey on the ground and burning it and then pulling out their penises and peeing on it. The second story has a family go for a Sunday walk and they come across some bullies throwing an African immigrant into a river and then murdering him, while the bystanders all around repeat racist tropes and no one speaks up or calls the police. Really gross and outdated. Maybe the author is trying to highlight xenophobia but because he does not unpack it at all and because no one helps the main character to analyze what happens, I would worry that kids would just hear the racist comments and not be able to make sense of the these pretty upsetting events in the story. Third story is weird but OK, and the final story has some weird and inappropriate sexual details.