Written and Illustrated by: Leyla Torres (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993)
Published in Spanish as: “Gorrión del metro”
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A sparrow is trapped is a New York subway train. Who will help it? There are four people in the subway car and only two speak English -a young girl and a teenage boy. Illustrated in vivid, brightly lit watercolors, Subway Sparrow paints a hopeful urban canvas showing how four strangers rise above the language, age and cultural barriers that divide them.
“… a charming multicultural vignette […] ingeniously constructed, nicely paced, and altogether disarming”.
— Kirkus Reviews –
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