Quick view Details Estas manos: Manitas de mi familia / These Hands: My Familys Hands by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo
Quick view Details Estrellita en la ciudad grande/ Estrellita in the Big City by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo
Quick view Details Uncle Chente's Picnic/El Picnic De Tio Chente by Diane Gonzales Bertrand by Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Quick view Details Sofi and the Magic, Musical Mural / Sofi y el mágico mural musical by Raquel M Ortiz by Raquel M Ortiz
Quick view Estas manos: Manitas de mi familia / These Hands: My Familys Hands by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo In this heart-warming ode to family, the young narrator compares the hands of family members to plants in the natural world. Your hands, the most tender hands! / When I'm scared, / They soothe me, she says to her mother. The girl compares her mother's... View Details
Quick view A Mummy in Her Backpack / Una momia en su mochila by James Luna Flor enjoyed her two-week trip to Mexico, though she's glad to be back at school. But when she tries to pull her homework out of her backpack, she's shocked to feel a cold hand clutching hers. Thinking that the pesky boys in her class are playing a trick... View Details
Quick view The Last Doll / La Ultima Muneca by Diane Gonzales Bertrand A beautiful old-fashioned doll, long neglected on a toy store's shelves, becomes the last special doll given to a Mexican American girl when she celebrates her fifteenth birthday. View Details
Quick view Estrellita en la ciudad grande/ Estrellita in the Big City by Samuel Caraballo by Samuel Caraballo Relates, in Spanish and English, a telephone conversation in which young Estrellita, who has recently moved to Brooklyn, New York, tells her grandmother, who still lives in Puerto Rico, all about her adventures in and near Manhattan. View Details
Quick view Chave's Memories/ Los Recuerdos De Chave by Maria Isabel Delgado A woman recalls childhood visits to her grandparents' ranch in Mexico, where she and her brother played with her cousins and listened to the stories of an old Indian ranch hand. View Details
Quick view Waiting for Papa/ Esperando a Papa by Lainez Colato by Lainez Colato When a young boy and his mother come to the United States from El Salvador, leaving his father behind, the boy misses his father very much and wants to do something special to show him how much he cares. View Details
Quick view Uncle Chente's Picnic/El Picnic De Tio Chente by Diane Gonzales Bertrand by Diane Gonzales Bertrand Even a summer thunderstorm cannot ruin the beautiful day planned by the Cárdenas family to welcome Uncle Chente when he comes to visit their home in Texas on the Fourth of July. View Details
Quick view Magda's Tortillas/Las Tortillas De Magda by Becky Chavarria-Chairez While learning to make tortillas on her seventh birthday, Magda tries to make perfectly round ones like those made by her grandmother but instead creates a variety of wonderful shapes. View Details
Quick view Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup - Caldo, Caldo, Caldo by Diane Gonzales Bertrand A bilingual picture book offers up a celebration of a kitchen where mom has just pulled out the large stew pot to begin a fabulous vegetable soup and all the kids are invited to help. View Details
Quick view The Remembering Day / El día de los muertos by Pat Mora In this special bilingual picture book for children, acclaimed author Pat Mora creates an origin myth in which she imagines how the Mexican custom of remembering deceased loved onesEl día de los muertos or the Day of the Deadcame to be. With tender... View Details
Quick view The Place Where You Live / El lugar donde vives by James Luna by James Luna Young children will delight in reading this simple rhyming text with a recurring refrain that describes a loving home and neighborhood. There's the garden, "alive and green / with peppers and squash that you planted in spring," the neighbor who trades... View Details
Quick view Sofi and the Magic, Musical Mural / Sofi y el mágico mural musical by Raquel M Ortiz by Raquel M Ortiz On the way back from the bodega, Sofia is drawn into a life-like mural of Old San Juan where she dances, sings, and conquers her fear of the vejigante before being called back to the barrio by her mother. View Details
