Since Alberto Blanco and Rodolfo Morales are so popular I feel almost sacrilegious saying this was not my favorite book, but it is a good one. It deserves more than a 4, but maybe not a 5. Why? Because the text is wordy and would lose most kids I know. And the art is not my type of art, but art is so personal. The story is about Angel who is sad that his town's church bell has disappeared, and how he gets it back for the people. This is a book worth buying, especially as a bilingual one for teaching both languages.

This is a a great book. It isn't filled with hard words or impossible to understand phrases; but it is hard - the stories it tells ring as deeply truthful, there is a surprise around every comma, and words do things here that one might not expect. There are variations on classic poetry forms (which are so subtle that they can easily be overlooked - and if you don't even notice/know, that's OK too). Its about fathers and sons, being a Dad, claiming one's space/place as a gay man, growing up, being an American, recovering the past and living fully in the present. This book will resonant with just about anyone who has the courage to read it with the same honesty as it is written. Poetry books are rarely page turners, but this one is!