Song of the swallows

Leo Politi First published 1949

About this book

Sad when the swallows leave for the winter, young Juan prepares to welcome them back to the old California Mission at Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day the next spring.

Subjects

  • age:max:9
  • age:min:6
  • award:caldecott_award
  • caldecott medal
  • caldecott medal books, 1950
  • california, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • collectionid:caldecott50
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • grade:max:3
  • grade:min:1
  • hirondelles
  • juvenile fiction
  • lexile:690
  • lexile_code:ad
  • lexile_range:601-700
  • mexican americans
  • missions
  • mission san juan capistrano
  • romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
  • songbirds
  • swallows
  • swallows, fiction