Alma Flor Ada
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this memoir collection, Ada vividly recounts childhood stories, painting pictures with words that allow readers to almost taste Cuban foods, smell her grandmother's talcum, and feel the red clay used to make pottery. Ada adopts the tone of an older adult fondly sharing childhood memories with a beloved child?the reader. She weaves life lessons and Cuban customs and values throughout her recollections of eccentric relatives and community members...
9) Dancing home
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
Author
Publisher
TOON Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"--
"How would a kitchen maid fare against a seven-headed dragon? What happens when a woman marries a mouse? And what can a young man learn from a thousand leaf cutter ants? Famed Love and Rockets creator Jaime Hernandez asks these questions and more as he transforms beloved myths into bold, stunning, and utterly contemporary comics. Guided by the classic works of F. Isabel...
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.
Una colección de más de dos docenas de canciones infantiles en español, de España y América Latina, con traducciones al inglés.