Still Dreaming / Seguimos soñando

A child’s poignant narration of their family’s repatriation journey to Mexico during the 1940s — “the only way to stay together as a family” — Still Dreaming/ Seguimos soñando is packed with teaching possibilities.

This carefully illustrated picture book slowly reveals the context of the life the family is leaving behind, and the ways their story connects with others and still resonates today. As they meet other families on similar journeys, the story lists examples of the essential work thousands of Mexican Americans did in places like Los Angeles, Minnesota, Michigan, and Chicago. And the author’s note provides important historical context about the annexation of roughly half of Mexico following the U.S. war on Mexico, including historians’ estimate “that between 1930 and 1940, 2 million people living in the United States were ‘repatriated’ to Mexico.”

Along with thoughtful exploration of the historical context in the author’s note, this story can generate rich conversations about annexation, immigration, deportation, and, as Claudia Guadalupe Martínez puts it, the theme “still dreaming of permanence.” [Description from Rethinking Schools]

ISBN: 9780892394340 | Children’s Book Press (CA)