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Mama's nightingale a story of immigration and separation

When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own -- one that just might bring her mother home.

Main Author:	Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- (Author)
Other Authors:	Staub, Leslie, 1957- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]
Subjects:	Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction. Picture books for children.

Summary:	When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own -- one that just might bring her mother home.
Physical Description:	28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Audience:	Ages 5-8.
Awards:	A Junior Library Guild Selection.
ISBN:	9780525428091 0525428097
Author Notes:	Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as "one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference," and by the New York Times Magazine as one of "30 Under 30" people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937. (Bowker Author Biography)

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