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El Chino

El Chino

by Allen Say

1990BullfightersJuvenile literatureBiographyChildren's fictionChildren, fiction
3.0
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First lines

My parents came from Canton, China, and had six children in Nogales, Arizona.

About this book

A biography of Bill Wong, a Chinese American who became a famous bullfighter in Spain.

Themes & subjects

BullfightersJuvenile literatureBiographyChildren's fictionChildren, fictionBullfights
First published 1990

Characters & people

Setting

United States

About the author

Allen Say
Allen Say

1937

Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937; surname written Seii (清井) in Japanese) is a Japanese-American writer and illustrator. He is best known for Grandfather's Journey, a children's picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal for illustration. This story is autobiographical and relates to Say's constant moving during his childhood. His work mainly focuses on Japanese and Japanese American characters and their stories, and several works have autobiographical elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say

Author

Allen Say

First published

1990

Pages

32

Read time

≈ 1h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN

9780547768908

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