EXPANDING DEFINITIONS OF GIFTEDNESS: THE CASE OF YOUNG INTERPRETERS
FROM IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. Guadalupe Valdés (with Heather
Brookes, Christina Chávez, Claudia Angelelli, Kerry Enright,
Dania García, and Marisela González). Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum, 2003. Pp. xxiv + 226. $65.00 cloth, $24.50 paper.
As Valdés explains in the introduction, this book is about
youngsters who carry out the very hard work of interpreting
and translating when they are selected by their families to mediate
communication between themselves and the outside world [and
the] … skills that young interpreters develop in order to
mediate and broker communication between members of majority and
minority communities. (p. xvii)