![]() ![]() It’s a short trip - just down the street from his school. ![]() MY TWO BORDER TOWNS begins on a Saturday morning, when a young boy (who's never named) prepares his "special bag" for a day trip with dad to the other side of the border. An all-Spanish version of this book, titled Mis Dos Pueblos Fronterizos, was published simultaneously. Spanish words and phrases are part of the story. Meza's stunning watercolor illustrations add to the story and help to candidly portray the everyday lives of families who span the border, including refugees from the Caribbean and Central America, who are living in limbo on the border between the United States and Mexico. Growing up as part of a transitional community, like the protagonist in My Two Border Towns, Bowels gives us an insider's look into life in a border town. It's inspired by Bowles' childhood experiences growing up in the Río Grande Valley of South Texas and regularly crossing the border with his own father to visit family and run errands, just like the main characters in the story. ![]() ![]() Parents need to know that My Two Border Towns, written by David Bowles ( They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems) and beautifully illustrated by Erika Meza, is the loving story of a father and son’s weekend ritual that includes traveling "al Otro Lado," or to the other side of the border from Texas into Mexico. ![]()
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