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1) Moony Luna
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press/Editorial Libros para Niños
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Five-year old Luna doesn't want to go to school, but when her parents assure her that she will have a wonderful time playing and learning, she decides to give it a try.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Description
Provides a poetic recipe for cheese tamalitos that not only offers instructions for making them but highlights the importance of corn in the foodways of the Americas.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
From its birth as a spark, Little Fire flits like a firefly and plays hide and seek inside a volcano. He grows between two sticks rubbed together or on a stone that strikes another. Little Fire is red, yellow, orange and turquoise. "I look like the sun / but I am no sun. / I am Fire, Little Fire / who laughs, / who dances." Little Fire sings, "sizzle, / hiss, / whoosh, / crackle, crackle.".
"Describes--in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl--the characteristics...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Description
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.
¿Por qué los jóvenes que salen de su país para caminar a los Estados Unidos para buscar un hogar nuevo y seguro? Más de 100.000 niños han salido de Centroamérica. Este libro de poesía nos ayuda a entender por qué...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Xochitl and her family, newly arrived in San Francisco from El Salvador, create a beautiful plant nursery in place of the garbage heap behind their apartment, and celebrate with their friends and neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32, 32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador but when gangs threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States, but are separated at the border.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the previous cooking poems, "Guacamole" conveys the fun and pleasure...
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Appears on list
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
Provides a poetic recipe for rice pudding that not only offers instructions for making the treat but highlights the ways in which it can delight all the senses.
En este delicioso libro, el poeta Jorge Arguita nos brinda su receta preferida de arroz con leche. Esta receta es al mismo tiempo fácil de preparar y toda una experiencia poética para todos los sentidos y la imaginación.
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