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Series: Bilingual Cooking Poems Tamalitos Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem Bilingual edition Paperback Jorge Argueta 9781773060910 $8.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2017

In this bilingual cooking poem for young children, Jorge Argueta encourages more creativity and fun in the kitchen as he describes how to make tamalitos from corn masa and cheese, wrapped in cornhusks.The book opens with an homage to corn — white, yellow, blue, purple, red and black. In Maya mythology the first men and women are even said to be made of corn. It has been an important food for people in Central America for centuries, and one of the most delicious things you can make using corn masa and husks are tamalitos, or little tamales.In si... + Read More
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Series: Bilingual Cooking Poems Salsa Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem Paperback Jorge Argueta 9781773060033 $8.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2017

In this new cooking poem, Jorge Argueta brings us a fun and easy recipe for a yummy salsa.A young boy and his sister gather the ingredients and grind them up in a molcajete, just like their ancestors used to do, singing and dancing all the while.The children imagine that their ingredients are different parts of an orchestra — the tomatoes are bongos and kettledrums, the onion, a maraca, the cloves of garlic, trumpets and the cilantro, the conductor. They chop and then grind these ingredients in the molcajete, along with red chili peppers for th... + Read More
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Series: Bilingual Cooking Poems Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem Paperback Jorge Argueta 9781773060026 $9.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2017

This delightful recipe in poem form shows us all, young and old, how to make a heartwarming, tummy-filling bean soupFrom gathering the beans, onions and garlic to letting them swim in the pot until the house smells wonderful and it’s time for supper.A young boy helps his mother prepare a soup the whole family will enjoy using ingredients from Mother Earth. Onions are “yellow as the dawn,” beans are like stars spread out on the “sky of the table” and the water in the pot is “as deep as a little lake.” While the soup is cooking, the boy buries th... + Read More
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Series: Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem Paperback Jorge Argueta 9781554988877 $8.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2016

The second title of Jorge Argueta's popular bilingual Cooking Poems series, celebrates the joys of preparing, eating and sharing food. Now available in paperback, Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding is the second title of Jorge Argueta’s popular bilingual Cooking Poems series, celebrating the joys of preparing, eating and sharing food. From sprinkling the rice into the pot, to adding a waterfall of milk, cinnamon sticks, salt stars and sugar snow, Jorge Argueta’s recipe is not only easy to follow, it is a poetic experience. The lively illustrations ... + Read More
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Series: Guacamole Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem Paperback Jorge Argueta 9781554988884 $10.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2016

Guacamole is the third title of Jorge Argueta's popular bilingual Cooking Poems series, celebrating the joys of preparing, eating and sharing food. Now available in paperback, Guacamole is the third title of Jorge Argueta’s popular bilingual Cooking Poems series, celebrating the joys of preparing, eating and sharing food. Guacamole originated in Mexico with the Aztecs and has long been popular in North America, especially in recent years due to the many health benefits of avocados. This version of the recipe is easy to make, calling for just av... + Read More
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Series: What Are You Doing? Paperback Elisa Amado 9781773060040 $9.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 01, 2017

A picture book that captures a child’s discovery of the power of reading.Before he leaves for his first day of school, Chepito runs outside to play. He comes across all kinds of people in his neighborhood who are reading. “Why, why, why?” he sings, and they each have a different answer for him, whether it’s a man reading a newspaper, a young girl enjoying a comic, a couple of tourists consulting a guidebook or an archeologist studying hieroglyphics. Later that day, Chepito discovers the fun of reading for himself, and he even brings home a book... + Read More
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Series: Walk with Me Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554988570 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 01, 2017

A simple, imaginative story depicting the complex emotional reality of a girl whose father no longer lives at home. The girl conjures up an imaginary companion — a lion — who will join her on the long walk home from school. He will help her to pick up her baby brother from daycare and shop at the store (which has cut off the family’s credit), and he’ll keep her company all along the way until she is safely home. He will always come back when she needs him, unlike her father whom she sees only in a photograph — a photograph in which he clearly r... + Read More
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Series: Rooster / Gallo Bilingual edition Paperback Jorge Luján 9781554989362 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 Oct 01, 2016

A rooster heralds the beginning and end of the day in this imaginative and beautifully illustrated bilingual poem. The song of the rooster draws forth the universe and gives way to the dance of beings and objects as day draws its first brilliant breath. This book is so supremely simple that a baby can delight in it, and yet so complex that an adult reader can find joy in the poem and beautiful images over and over again. Jorge Lujan dreamed this myth and, when he wrote it, understood that the rooster is the poet of the day. Manuel Monroy dipped... + Read More
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Series: Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9781554988495 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 12 Oct 01, 2016

An eloquent and timely plea for understanding refugees. Why are young people leaving their country to walk to the United States to seek a new, safe home? Over 100,000 such children have left Central America. This book of poetry helps us to understand why and what it is like to be them. This powerful book by award-winning Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta describes the terrible process that leads young people to undertake the extreme hardships and risks involved in the journey to what they hope will be a new life of safety and opportunity. A refugee... + Read More
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Series: Dos conejos blancos Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554989034 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2016

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey. As many thousa... + Read More
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Series: Two White Rabbits Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554987412 $19.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 01, 2015

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey. As many thousa... + Read More
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Series: La Malinche The Princess Who Helped Cortés Conquer the Aztec Empire Hardcover Francisco Serrano 9781554981113 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 01, 2012

This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of "La Malinche," the remarkable woman who became an interpreter and advisor to Hernán Cortés. To some she was the mother of a mestizo Mexico, while to others she was a traitor to her people.In the early 1500s, Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors defeated the great Aztec Empire, built a new city for colonists from Spain and took control of vast lands stretching from today’s southwestern US down through most of Central America.But many people don’t know that one of the reasons for the succe... + Read More
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Series: Jimmy the Greatest! Hardcover Jairo Buitrago 9781554981786 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 May 01, 2012

Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012 Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests that Jimmy start training, and to inspire him, he gives Jimmy a box full of books, as well as newspaper clippings about Muhammad Ali - "The Greatest." Jimmy is swept with admiration for Ali. He begins to read and run and box like crazy, even though someone at th... + Read More
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Series: Con el sol en los ojos / With the Sun in My Eyes Hardcover Jorge Luján 9781554981588 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 9 Mar 01, 2012

In this book of short poems in Spanish and English, a young boy and girl describe their world and their day-to-day experiences -- the boy's street is like the trunk of an almond tree and the newborn chicks are like tiny walking suns. The girl loves her dog Oliver, the wind hitting her in the face and laughter "that explodes for no reason." But the children also ponder mysteries, such as the loud silence the boy hears inside himself when he goes for a walk alone and the vast beauty of the sky, with its clouds and constellations. Once again Jorge... + Read More
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Series: The Secret Legacy Hardcover Rigoberta Menchú 9780888998965 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 9 Sep 15, 2008

Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns once more to the world of her childhood in The Secret Legacy. Seven-year-old Ixkem is chosen by her grandfather amongst all the villagers to inherit the responsibility for tending his special cornfield. Ixkem goes to the field and begins to shout and stomp to frighten away the animals who would like to share the harvest. Suddenly a mass of tiny creatures appear — the b'e'n — secret animal spirits of which there is one for every human on earth. They take Ixkem into the... + Read More
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Series: Colors! / Colores! Hardcover Jorge Luján 9780888998637 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Feb 01, 2008

Noted poet Jorge Lujan and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler teamed up to produce this exquisite celebration of color. As day turns into night, we are given fleeting, evocative glimpses of the qualities inherent in a range of colors. An antelope and some children are pictured inhabiting this delicate world. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6 With prompting and support, name the autho... + Read More
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Series: Alfredito Flies Home Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888995858 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 Oct 01, 2007

Alfredito and his family are getting ready to return to their old home in El Salvador for Christmas, their first time back since they left as refugees. But they will make this trip on a plane — the first time any of them has ever flown. The excitement mounts as they drive to the airport, get on the plane and fly up into the air, each step bringing an increasing level of amazement. But the greatest moment of all is when they finally arrive and their beloved relatives meet them. Their old house looks and feels as it always did. The smells, the fo... + Read More
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Series: Talking with Mother Earth / Hablando con Madre Tierra Hardcover Jorge Argueta 9780888996268 $18.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Apr 24, 2006

An Americas Award Commended Title Raw, honest and powerful, these moving bilingual poems by noted Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta explore a young native boy's connection to Mother Earth and how he is healed from the terrible wounds of racism he has endured. Tetl has learned from his grandmother about the spirituality of his ancestors, about how they viewed the earth as alive with sacred meaning. This helps him move from doubt and fear, created by the taunts of other children, to self-acceptance and a discovery of his love for nature. Mountains, w... + Read More
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Series: The Composition Paperback Antonio Skarmeta 9780888995506 $8.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 8 Mar 05, 2003

Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awards and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things suddenly become much more complicated. Why, for instance, do Pedro's parents secretly listen to the radio every evening after dinner? And why does the government want Pedro and his classmates to write compositions about what their parents do in the even... + Read More
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Series: The Race of Toad and Deer Hardcover Pat Mora 9780888994349 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Sep 01, 2001

Pat Mora and Domi have created a poetic adaptation of the Maya version of the much-loved fable of the tortoise and the hare.The arrogant deer who boasts of his strength and speed is finally challenged to a race by the wily toad. While all the wondrous animals of the jungle -- jaguar, tapir, armadillo and toucan -- gather around to watch, the toad makes a plan. He may not be as large as Venado, but he is very clever and has many friends to help him. In the end, Sapo defeats the deer, proving the value of brain over brawn. This version of the st... + Read More