A Common Core Exemplar Text by an award-winning author-illustrator team Tomas is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow the crops north from Texas to Iowa, spending long, arduous days in the fields. At night they gather around to hear Grandfather's wonderful stories. But before long, Tomas knows all the stories by heart. "There are more stories in the library,"Papa Grande tells him. The very next day, Tomas meets the library lady and a whole new world opens up for him. Based on the true story of the Mexican-American author and educator Tomas...
A Common Core Exemplar Text by an award-winning author-illustrator team Tomas is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family f...
Filled with hope, love, and warmth, this novel describes a Los Angeles far different from the place of movie stars and very poor people--a place where random acts of generosity improve the lives of the community.
Filled with hope, love, and warmth, this novel describes a Los Angeles far different from the place of movie stars and very poor people--a place where...
Dona Flor, una senora gigante, vive en un pueblo pequenito. Los vecinos la adoran y ella adora a sus vecinos. Deja que los ninos utilicen las flores de su jardin como trompetas y las tortillas como balsas. A Dona Flor le encanta leer y con frecuencia puedes verla rodeada de ninos que escuchan atentos las historias de sus libros. Un dia un tremendo aullido de animal proveniente de las afueras del pueblo asusta a todos, incluida a Dona Flor. Quiere proteger a sus queridos vecinos y con ayuda de sus amigos los animales, se dirige hacia la meseta mas alta, en busca de la terrible fiera....
Dona Flor, una senora gigante, vive en un pueblo pequenito. Los vecinos la adoran y ella adora a sus vecinos. Deja que los ninos utilicen las flor...
Tomas es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, el y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y dificiles dias en el campo, durante la temporada de la cosecha de frutas y verduras. Por las noches, a veces, se reunen a escuchar los maravillosos cuentes de papa grande, el abuelo de Tomas. Con el tiempo, Tomas se aprende todos los cuentos de memoria. Hay muchos otros cuentos en la biblioteca - le dice papa grande. Y al dia siguiente, Tomas conoce a la senora de la biblioteca, quien le abre las puertas a un nuevo mundo. Este alentador cuento de Pat Mora es...
Tomas es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, el y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y dificiles dias en el campo, d...
Jose was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his step. Born in Mexico in 1908, he came into the world kicking like a steer, and grew up to love to draw, play the piano, and dream. Jose's dreaming took him to faraway places. He dreamed of bullfighters and the sounds of the cancan dancers that he saw with his father. Dance lit a fire in Jose's soul. With his heart to guide him, Jose left his family and went to New York to dance. He learned to flow and float and fly through space with steps like a Mexican breeze. When Jose danced, his spirit soared. From New York to lands afar,...
Jose was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his step. Born in Mexico in 1908, he came into the world kicking like a steer, and grew up to l...
Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy. Using the imagery from his novels, Monica Brown traces the novelist's life in this creative nonfiction picture book from his childhood in Colombia to today. This is an...
Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to...
This picture-book biography of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") traces the Nobel Prize-winning novelists life from his childhood in Colombia to today, using the imagery from his eclectic novels. Full color.
This picture-book biography of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") traces the Nobel Prize-winning novelists life from his childhoo...
On an island called Puerto Rico, there lived a little boy who wanted only to play baseball. Although he had no money, Roberto Clemente practiced and practiced until--eventually--he made it to the Major Leagues. America As a right-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he fought tough opponents--and even tougher racism--but with his unreal catches and swift feet, he earned his nickname, "The Great One." He led the Pirates to two World Series, hit 3,000 hits, and was the first Latino to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. But it wasn't just baseball that made Clemente legendary--he was was also a...
On an island called Puerto Rico, there lived a little boy who wanted only to play baseball. Although he had no money, Roberto Clemente practiced and p...
Dona Flor is a giant lady who lives in a tiny village in the American Southwest. Popular with her neighbors, she lets the children use her flowers as trumpets and her leftover tortillas as rafts. Flor loves to read, too, and she can often be found reading aloud to the children. One day, all the villagers hear a terrifying noise: it sounds like a huge animal bellowing just outside their village. Everyone is afraid, but not Flor. She wants to protect her beloved neighbors, so with the help of her animal friends, she sets off for the highest mesa to find the creature. Soon enough, though,...
Dona Flor is a giant lady who lives in a tiny village in the American Southwest. Popular with her neighbors, she lets the children use her flowers as ...