Esperanza Rising

Created on July 17, 2008

Calling all friends and family; art and theater lovers:

 

(adapted from Kool and the Gang’s Ladies Night Song)

 

Oh yes it’s children’s night, (or day if you prefer), and the feel is right, oh what a night (or day)!…..Sophisticated kiddies, come on you theater lovers……party here, party there….this is your night/day….everything is going to alright….  (just a little humor)

 

On a serious note, I want to share with all of you an entertaining and inexpensive event happening around our magnificent city.  I found out the Goodman Theater is presenting the play Esperanza Rising, based on the book by Pam Muñoz Ryan.  

 

Esperanza Rising is a compelling story, set in the turbulent 1930’s, about a wealthy Mexican girl whose privileged lifestyle is shattered when tragedy strikes, and she and her mother flee and migrate to California.   They embark on a new way of life and they are forced to work in a migrant labor camp.  Throughout the story young Esperanza learns to rise above her difficult circumstances and discover what she’s truly made of.    

 

I read this book in my children’s literature class, LIS721-01, last year and I simply loved the storyline because it’s a well written novel about a young girl’s triumph over adversity.  I think this would make a great book to introduce our tweens and teens in our family/circle of friends, that is if they haven’t read it already.  Also, maybe some of you might be interested in going to see it.  I think it would make a great summer outting!  Especially with the Latino Theatre Festival around the corner, August 08-24, 2008.

  

Your friendly and enthusiastic librarian relative/friend!

~ by Pretty Hip Librarian on August 28, 2008.