“Brief anecdotes, presented like a slide show, take readers from Limón’s birth through a happy childhood, the Mexican civil war, immigration and adaptation to the United States, and his struggle to become a painter, and then a dancer, in New York City. Colón’s watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations on textured paper give a sense of movement and life.” — School Library Journal
Born in 1908, in a small Mexican village, Jose Limon seemed destined to become an artist. The lyrical language incorporates onomatopoeic and Spanish words. The distinctive illustrations with swirling colors reveal the life of a great modern dancer and choreographer.