Lauren Castillo
Author
Series
Our friend Hedgehog volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
110 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Sometimes you make a friend, and it feels like you have known that friend your entire life. . . . Hedgehog lives on a teeny-tiny island with only her stuffed dog, Mutty, for company. When a great storm carries Mutty away, she embarks on a quest to find her friend. Following the trail of clues Mutty left behind, brave Hedgehog meets a wiggly Mole, a wordy Owl, a curmudgeonly Beaver, a scatterbrained Hen and Chicks, and a girl who's new to the neighborhood,...
Author
Series
Our friend Hedgehog volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Autumn leaves are falling in Hedge Hollow, and the change in season brings with it a spiny surprise... anotherhedgehog! Is it friend or foe? Or is it . . . family? On the one paw, Hedgehog is excited to meet one of her own kind, but on the other paw, she has never felt so different—or distant—from her old friends. Where does Hedgehog belong, and who does she belong with? A journey upriver through an unfamiliar forest just might lead her home…...
5) The reader
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
A boy and his dog hike to the top of a very tall, snowy hill where they play, enjoy a snack, and then share their favorite book before sledding home.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Description
Big Cat Pepper has always been part of the family, but after he grows very old and dies, the boy who loves him comes to understand his mother's reassurance that "his spirit is forever and can fly, fly, fly."
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Description
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
"Nada hace tan feliz a Sierra como el fútbol. Sobre todo, cuando sus zapatillas con llamas hacen que el balón ruede por el inmenso mar de grama limpia. Pero, al mismo tiempo, nada la pone tan triste...
8) Yard sale
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Callie and her family are moving from their house to an apartment, so they're having a yard sale. It can be hard to let things go, but in the end, it's who you have - not what you have - that counts.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Description
A preschooler marks the progress of her day, not by the clock but by what happens after lunch, after nap, after swimming, after the library--and after Daddy comes home. She doesn't map her neighborhood by street signs, either. Her morning walk to see dogs in the park takes her past the cat outside the deli, past her friend Errolyn's building and the daycare where she used to go when she was little, and down the block to the bagel store. The sounds,...
10) Twenty yawns
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep?
11) Spunky tells all
Author
Series
Julian books volume 10
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Called a troublemaker by his human family, a reflective dog defends himself and then relates the family's adoption of an aristocratic but incompetent cat, who gives him a life purpose and and new way of looking at his world.
12) Un d́ía con papá
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Description
When a father and child go fishing together, each does certain things his own way, and both have a wonderful day.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color iiustrations ; 26 cm
Description
When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten, an anxious Elwyn longed for the farm, where animal friends awaited him at the end of each day. Propelled by his fascination with the outside world, he began to jot down his reflections in a journal. Writing filled him with joy, and words became his world. Today, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web are beloved classics of children's...
14) Imagine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Bedtime is near, but from the end of dinner until lights are turned off, it is not really time for sleeping until a child receives a special good night wish.
17) This is a story
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm. + 1 poster
Description
A children's literacy advocate presents a story in which readers from everywhere pore over books, each with their own questions, ideas to explore, hopes for the future, and imaginations ready to spark, showing the many ways books can foster connection and empower children.
18) Imagina
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Appears on list
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this place in life."--From English-language edition.
19) Imagina
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
Description
A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera — brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo — speaks to every dreaming heart. Now in a Spanish-language edition!
¿ALGUNA VEZ has imaginado quién serás cuando crezcas?
Cuando Juan Felipe Herrera era niño, recogió flores, ayudó a su mamá a alimentar a los pollitos, durmió bajo el cielo centelleante y aprendió a decirles adiós a sus
20) City Cat
Author
Description
A plucky stray cat takes a Grand Tour in Kate Banks' story of a family on a European vacation. As the family travels from one city to the next, the cat finds its own means--by bus, boat, train, truck, and bike--to tag along on the trip, visiting historic landmarks like Buckingham Palace and the Cathedral of Notre Dame along the way. Readers will pore over the spreads to find where City Cat is hiding in each city, and detailed backmatter explains the...