Drum, Chavi, Drum! / ¡Toca, Chavi, Toca!
Written by Mayra Lazara Dole
Illustrated by Tonel
Published by Children's Book Press
Tun—TUN—dun—TUN!
Even though nobody in her Cuban—American neighborhood thinks girls should play the drums, Chavi knows she was born to drum. And the whole world is her instrument: she drums on paint cans, sofa arms, even on her mother’s cheeks. Her favorites, however, are the tumbadoras, the conga drums that liven the Caribbean music she and her neighbors love. So, when she’s not picked to play on the school float for the festival on Miami’s Calle Ocho, she decides to do something about it!
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Publication Date: May 2014
Available As: Paperback
Picture Book, Age 05 or older
Community Represented: Cuban/Cuban American
Themes: Arts, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Spanish/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Setting: United States (Miami FL)
Character's Place in the Immigration Journey: Unknown Arrival
Book Creator(s) Connection to the Community Represented: Own Voices/Lived Experience
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