I Am from Puerto Rico

by Peter Buckley

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671651641
• ISBN13: 9780671651640
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 127 Pages

Customer Reviews

heart -warming...

I was 5 years old when this tall and jolly "americano" came into our home to talk to my parents about this book he wanted to write about a "newyorican" kid growing up in a fisherman village in Puerto Rico. Mr. Buckley had met my brother Freddie, the oldest while he was helping out at the local hotel and he wanted the book to be based on my brother. We had just moved to PR from NYC and Freddie, the oldest was having a real hard time adjusting. My parents were very supportive of the idea, and although we were very young, we were all so excited (me and four other brothers & sisters)!! The big "americano" took all kinds of pictures of us in our daily lifes; playing, eating, just having fun. He was very caring, and never, not once, lost patience with us. He was very kind with my parents too. Once the book was finished we got a number of copies, from which I still have one. The story was wonderfully written. Well, I became an environmental engineer