Julián at the wedding

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Title :

Julián at the wedding / Jessica Love.

Title:

Julián at the wedding

Author:

Love, Jessica

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

ISBN:

9781536212389

Production / Publication Information:

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side"--

Language:

English

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction.

Weddings -- Juvenile fiction.

Gender nonconformity -- Juvenile fiction.

Individuality -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Grandparent and child -- Fiction.

Weddings -- Fiction.

Gender nonconformity -- Fiction.

Individuality -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Hispanic Americans -- Fiction.

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Book	Searching... North Andover - Stevens Memorial Library	JP STORIES CELEBRATIONS LOV	31478003616332	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Amesbury Public Library	E LOVE	32114002712934	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Andover - Memorial Hall Library Children's Room	JE LOV	31330008909784	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Billerica Public Library	E/LOV	33934004353364	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Burlington Public Library	E LOVE	32116003752348	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Carlisle - Gleason Public Library	JJ LOVE	32117002043713	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Chelmsford Public Library	JJ/LOVE	31480011422208	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Dracut - Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library	E/LOVE	31482003041400	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Dunstable Free Public Library	JJ LOV	32118001029794	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Georgetown Peabody Library	JJ LOVE	32120001379922	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Groton Public Library	JJ LOV	37003701955768	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Groveland - Langley-Adams Library	JE LOV	32121000858619	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Hamilton-Wenham Public Library	JJ LOV	30470001860526	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Haverhill Public Library	J/PIC/LOVE	31479007410839	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Ipswich Public Library	JE LOVE	32122002901464	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Lawrence Public Library	E FAMILY LOV	31549004896113	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library	JJ LOV	32124001948678	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Methuen - Nevins Memorial Library	J-ER LOV	31548003315778	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Middleton - Flint Public Library	JJ LOV	32126001759559	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Newbury Town Library	JJ LOV	32127001258790	Searching... Unknown
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Book	Searching... Rowley Public Library	E LOV	32130000972148	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Tewksbury Public Library	JJ LOV	32132003218990	Searching... Unknown
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Book	Searching... West Newbury - G.A.R. Memorial Library	JJ LOV	32135001502877	Searching... Unknown
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Summary

The star of Julián Is a Mermaid makes a joyful return--and finds a new friend--at a wedding to be remembered.

Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side. Jessica Love returns with a joyful story of friendship and individuality in this radiant follow-up to Julián Is a Mermaid.

Reviews (4)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Julián is back! He is going to be in a wedding, and he arrives, dressed in a sharp lavender suit and magenta shoes, with his abuela. "A wedding is a party for love," Love (Julián Is a Mermaid) writes. Julián and flower girl Marisol, who attends in a ball cap with her own caretaker, meet each other, greet the brides--both clad in dazzling white and bright blue shoes--and walk down the aisle with dog Gloria, Marisol sprinkling petals as they go. The brides kiss, the party starts, and Julián and Marisol wander off, Julián having donned Marisol's flower wreath. When Marisol's fancy gown suffers from play with Gloria, Julián fashions her a new outfit from his dress shirt and a willow's trailing boughs--for a magical moment, inside the willow's arbor, the two become butterflies. "There you are!" the brides cry when the children rejoin the celebration, and an energetic dance party begins, the Statue of Liberty in the background. Artwork on brown paper allows warm, clear views of the characters, who appear to be Black and Afro-Latinx. The specificity of Love's characterizations--the way the abuelas kick off their high heels, the brides' enthusiasm, the children's expansive gender expressions--offers vibrancy and immediacy, and under their community's watchful eyes, Julián and Marisol find affection, acceptance, and room to grow. Ages 4--8. (Oct.)

Horn Book Review

Love's follow-up to Julian Is a Mermaid (rev. 5/18) features characters both familiar and new. At the start of the story, Julian and Abuela are strolling down the sidewalk, arm-in-arm and dressed to the nines, on their way to a wedding. They join up with a friend of Julian's, Marisol, wearing a yellow dress and backward ball cap that is soon to be replaced with a crown of flowers. Through spare text and lavish watercolor, gouache, and ink illustrations, Love paints a picture of a joyous occasion. "A wedding is a party for love," the author writes, opposite which we see Julian and Marisol posing with the brides as they share a kiss. Our two main characters steal away from the party, Julian now wearing Marisol's flower crown, and we watch their play take flight beneath a fluorescent-hued willow tree. When Marisol's dress is ruined in all the fun, Marisol puts on Julian's dress-shirt, adorned with the tree's bright cyan leaves. The scene is magical -- a magic befitting children who are uninhibited by societal gender norms and restraints. When the friends are discovered, they are not admonished but whisked away to join the brides on the dance floor. Brown craft paper is used as the book's background, adding depth to the colors throughout and emphasizing the different shades of each character's brown skin. Once again Love has brought us young characters who are free to live, play, and express themselves however they wish without conflict. An abundance of joy and love. Hill Saxton September/October 2020 p.66(c) Copyright 2020. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

Mermaid-loving Julián is back! Julián and Abuela arrive at an outdoor wedding on a green lawn (discerning eyes will spy the Statue of Liberty in the distance). Both meet friends at the wedding: Abuela, a familiar friend, and Julián, a new one, Marisol. Julián and Marisol are part of the wedding, which the text proclaims is "a party for love." Julián holds the leash of Gloria, the brides' dog, and Marisol--whose baseball cap has been swapped out for a flower crown--tosses petals. Later, after Marisol gifts Julián the flower crown, Marisol, Julián, and Gloria run off to the "fairy house," or weeping willow. Marisol and Gloria have such fun that muddy paws aren't a thought...until Marisol's peach-pink dress is covered in paw prints. But never fear, innovative Julián is here! With the help of the fairy house, all's well that ends well: Marisol's hat is returned, the brides welcome the pair back, and everyone celebrates love. Love's media, applied, as in the previous book, on brown paper, create colors that appear simultaneously soft and vibrant. Most of the main characters present Black or have brown skin. As established in the previous book, Julián and Abuela are Afro-Latinx, and Abuela's friend and Marisol are also cued Latinx. A celebration of weddings and a subtle yet poignant reminder that gender, like love, is expansive. Lovely. (Picture book. 4-8.) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Booklist Review

This follow-up to the polarizing Julián is a Mermaid, winner of a 2019 Stonewall Book Award, finds young Afro-Latinx Julián participating in the wedding of two brides, along with their dog, Gloria, and another child named Marisol. After the kids sneak off to play in the "fairy house" enclosure beneath a weeping willow, a romp with Gloria ends with Marisol muddying her dress. Julián solves the problem by making her a tunic from his shirt and a boa from a willow branch. When their abuelas discover them, a moment of shame is swept away by parental pride and support. This is a work similar to its predecessor, featuring joyful exploration of gender presentation without any trauma or real conflict. The art, again set on soft brown paper, bursts with dappled color, busy with fluttering fall leaves and flower petals. The intimate details in posture and expression make Love's illustrations deeply striking, though an element of caricature in her figures ties the work inextricably to the white gaze, fogging any mirror or window some readers might have found here.