Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas History / United States - 19th Century / United States - 20th Century / African American & Black She needs his help delivering

She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they'll be safe

sprinkled like fairy dust with Spanish words

Nemy sows seeds

To keep him going

An abundance of never-before-published letters

Calling the Doves / El canto de las palomas History / United States - 19th Century / United States - 20th Century / African American & Black She needs his help deliveringBilingual English Spanish. Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains.