When her identity is challenged, Tulipán, the Puerto Rican giraffe, ponders whether being Puerto Rican is a look or a feeling, whether it is in her blood or in her mind and heart. Her journey of self-identification takes her beyond simplistic and narrow definitions of the self.
Featured in WOW Review Volume IX, Issue 1.
- ISBN: 9780615924083
- Author: Haiman, Ada
- Illustrator: Sanchez-Haiman, Atabey
- Published: 2014 , La jirafa Tulipan
- Themes: giraffe, Identity, Puerto Rico
- Descriptors: Caribbean, Early Years (ages 2-6), Picture Book
- No. of pages: 44