This "heartbreaking ... powerful work" (★ School Library
Journal) introduces the contemporary issue of forced disappearances
to readers 10 and up--with "deceptively simple black line drawings" and
"unsentimental bilingual text" (★ Kirkus).
By a closed door, a child waits for his uncle, who is coming to stay. As
he waits, he imagines all the fun things they'll do when he arrives: his
uncle can teach him how to block a penalty shot and the boy can show him
how well he is doing in school. But his uncle never arrives. Page by
page, the boy grows older sitting in the same position, waiting to show
his uncle his degree, his son, and eventually, his granddaughter. And
still, his uncle does not come.
A bilingual edition, with both Spanish and English text, My Uncle
Is Coming Tomorrow is dedicated to the forcibly disappeared who were
never able to come home, and depicts the devastating impact on their
loved ones who are left behind.
An excellent resource for learning about the history of forced
disappearances, this gentle but effective book includes an afterword
that explains the act of "disappearing people" how it developed over the
course of the twentieth century as a tool of political terror, and how
people continue to be disappeared today.
An Aldana Libros Book, Greystone Kids