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A Cafecito Story

by Julia Alvarez

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A Cafecito Story is a story of love, coffee, birds and hope. It is a beautifully written eco-fable by best-selling author Julia Alvarez. Based on her and her husband's experiences trying to reclaim a small coffee farm in her native Dominican Republic, A Cafecito Story shows how the return to the traditional methods of shade-grown coffee can rehabilitate and rejuvenate the landscape and human culture, while at the same time preserving vital winter habitat for threatened songbirds.
Not a political or environmental polemic, A Cafecito Story is instead a poetic, modern fable about human beings at their best. The challenge of producing coffee is a remarkable test of our ability to live more sustainably, caring for the land, growers, and consumers in an enlightened and just way. Written with Julia Alvarez's deft touch, this is a story that stimulates while it comforts, waking the mind and warming the soul like the first cup of morning coffee. Indeed, this story is best read with a strong cup of organic, shade-grown, fresh-brewed coffee.

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Alvarez pens a simple story of a man, a new life, and struggling to survive. Includes woodcuts by Belkis Ramirez, an artist from the Dominican Republic
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About the Author

Belkis Ram­rez, who created the woodcuts for A Cafecito Story, is one of the most celebrated artrists in the Dominican Republic. Visit Belkis' web site. Daisy Cocco de Filippis, who translated A Cafecito Story into Spanish, is originally from the Dominican Republic. Since 1978 has taught Hispanic literature and culture at York College of The City University of New York, where she directs the Department on Foreign Languages, ESL and Humanitites.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781931498067
Afterword:
Alvarez, Julia
Author:
Eichner, Bill
Illustrator:
Ramirez, Belkis
Author:
Ramirez, Belkis
Author:
Alvarez, Julia
Author:
Eichner, Bill
Afterword by:
Eichner, Bill
Afterword:
Eichner, Bill
Author:
Eichner, Bill
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Location:
White River Junction, Vt.
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fables
Subject:
Americans
Subject:
Agriculture, cooperative
Subject:
Organic farming
Subject:
Dominican Republic
Subject:
Coffee growers
Subject:
General Cooking
Edition Number:
1st pbk. ed.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
TR-02-1
Publication Date:
20020631
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
Spanish
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
80
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 3 oz
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