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Age Level: 3-6 years old
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¡Pío Peep!: Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes
By: Alma Flor Ada, Isabel Campoy
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Poetry
Rhymes from Spanish speaking countries are presented in Spanish and recreated in English to form...
About Birds / Sobre los parjaros
By: Catherine Sill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals
Handsome, realistic illustrations accompanied by straightforward information about North...
Abuela
By: Arthur Dorros
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Flight
Rosalba imagines flying over New York City with her much loved abuela. The young girl uses...
Around the World in a Bathtub
By: Wade Bradford
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures
Everywhere people take baths, but baths and bathing traditions are different in places and...
Arroz con Leche
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 3-6 years old
These traditional rhymes and songs from Latin America are presented in both English and Spanish...
Colores de la Vida
By: Cynthia Weill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Art and Artists, Geography, Travel and Cultures
Animal sculptures on carefully composed pages with the color words provide a fine introduction...
Cuckoo: A Mexican Folktale / Cucu: Un cuento folklorico mexicano
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Lazy Cuckoo has a beautiful singing voice and brightly colored feathers — until he loses them...
Cuddled and Carried / Consentido y cargado
By: Dia Michels
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals
Bilingual book celebrates the bond between parent and child in the animal kingdom. Babies —...
Green Is a Chile Pepper
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures, Cooking and Food
Colors introduce foods and more Mexico and other Spanish-speaking counties. Naïve style...
Hello Ocean / Hola Mar
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Oceans, Rivers and Ponds
A child narrates her visit to the ocean, inviting readers to explore it with her. She experiences...
I Love Saturdays y domingos
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Family and Community
A girl visits both sets of grandparents on weekends. On Saturdays, she speaks English with Grandpa...
Josefina
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Art and Artists, Geography, Travel and Cultures, Math and Measuring
Count along in English and Spanish with a Mexican folk artist as she sculpts her world from clay...
La Princesa and the Pea
By: Susan Middleton Elya
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
El príncipe knows this girl is the one for him, but, as usual, his mother doesn’t agree. The...
Medio Pollito / Half-Chicken
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Do you know why a weather vane has a little rooster on the top, spinning around to tell us which...
Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Look at the moon and what do you see? Could it be Fox? Fox convinced Mole to accompany him to...
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Poetry
Neftali always loved nature and words. This fondness allowed Neftali — better known as Pablo...
Paco and the Giant Chile Plant
By: Keith Polette
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
The Southwestern desert is the setting for this humorous variation on the classic fairy tale "...
Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures, Poetry
Circles, squares, triangles, ovals and stars are all around! The rhyming text incorporates Spanish...
The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folktale / Bossy Gallito: El gallo de bodas:
By: Lucía González
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Travel with Bossy Rooster to his uncle's wedding. Of course the road is not entirely smooth in...
The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story
By: Rudolfo Anaya
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Based on an ancient Mexican legend, this story introduces young readers to the importance of...
The Park Our Town Built
By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Civics and Our Government, Family and Community
In the style of "The House That Jack Built," Diane Gonzales Bertrand offers a lively picture...
The Runaway Piggy
By: James Luna
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
In the classic tradition of "The Gingerbread Man," these piggy cookie leaps off the baking tray...
Tito Puente, Mambo King
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures, Music and Musicians
Tito Puente was born to be a musician. He grew up to become the Mamba King to whose music people...
Tomás and the Library Lady
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Family and Community
Tomás, child of migrant workers, visits the town library to find stories like the ones told by...
Age Level: 6-9 years old
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Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella Story
By: Tomie dePaola
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Adelita’s stepmother and stepsisters relegate her to kitchen duties after her father dies - and...
Barrio: José's Neighborhood/Barrio: El barrio de José
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community
José lives in a diverse neighborhood where he's just as likely to hear Spanish, English, or...
Chavela and the Magic Bubble
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Nature: Our Green World
Chavela loves chomping chicle — chewing gum and blowing bubbles. One day, while out with her...
Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia
By: Carmen Garza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community
The artist recalls growing up in south Texas in this celebration of family and cultural...
Finding the Music/En pos de la musica
By: Jennifer Torres
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Music and Musicians
Reyna accidentally breaks her abuelo’s vihuela and tries to fix it before her family finds out....
Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems/Aleteo y Zumbido: Poemas de Animales
By: Julie Paschkis
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals, Bugs, Poetry
Short poems about animals appear in English and Spanish accompanied by textured illustrations...
From the Bellybutton of the Moon and other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano
By: Francisco Alarcón
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures, Poetry
The poet remembers summers growing up in Mexico in poems presented in both English and Spanish....
Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña
By: Marsha Diane Arnold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures, Nature: Our Green World, Oceans, Rivers and Ponds
As a Galápagueña, Valentina spends her days observing the natural world around her. This...
I Know the River Loves Me / Yo se que el rio me ama
By: Maya Christina Gonzalez
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Oceans, Rivers and Ponds, Poetry
Whenever Maya visits the river, the river jumps up to greet her. It cools her when the summer...
In My Family/En mi familia
By: Carmen Garza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community
Kingsville, on the border of Mexico and Texas, comes to life in words and pictures in this book...
Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
By: Yuyi Morales
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
This original trickster tale, featuring featuring Señor Calavera and Grandma Beetle, is a...
Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book
By: Yuyi Morales
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Señor Calavera is back in this new original trickster tale about a Día de los Muertos skeleton...
Mango, Abuela, and Me
By: Meg MedinaAngela
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community, Geography, Travel and Cultures
When a little girl’s far-away grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend language....
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
By: Carmen Agra Deedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Bugs, Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
A sweet retelling of the Cuban folktale, full of puns and a sprinkling of Spanish. When it is...
My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures, Music and Musicians
The beautiful artwork of this award-winning picture book about salsa queen Celia Cruz practically...
My Name Is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez/Me llamo Gabito
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures
As she did in My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia, Monica Brown tells the story of young...
My Name Is Gabriela / Me llamo Gabriela
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Poetry
"My name is Gabriela Mistral. It is a name I chose myself because I like the sound of it." With...
Olinguito, de La A a la Z!/Olinguito, from A to Z!
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals, Geography, Travel and Cultures
Animals from the Ecuadorian Andes cloud forest are introduced in stunning illustrations and...
Once Upon a Time: Traditional Latin American Tales / Habia una vez: Cuentos tradicionales Latino Americanos
By: Reuben Martinez
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Animals and people wise and foolish are presented in these tales retold. Their origins, from a...
Señor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America
By: Lucía González
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Spanish words add flavor to these appealing folktales, cuentos favoritos, carefully illustrated...
Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Detectives and Explorers, Geography, Travel and Cultures
A bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello,...
Side by Side: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez / /Lado a Lado: La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Heroes and Superheroes
This bilingual book pairs the dual stories of powerful activists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta...
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred
By: Samantha Vamos
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Cooking and Food, Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Start with a farm maiden and a pot, invite some friends to help her, and before you know it, you...
The Korean Cinderella
By: Shirley Climo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
the story of Pear Blossom, a lovely girl who is sorely mistreated by her nasty stepmother and...
The Legend of the Caribou Boy / Ekwò Dǫzhìa Wegond
By: George Blondin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
When a little boy, traveling with his parents and grandparents, has trouble sleeping at night,...
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun / La mujer que brillaba aún más que el sol
By: Alejandro Cruz Martinez
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
Lucia Zenteno is a mythic character, a woman of great beauty who is perfectly in tune with...
Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Oceans, Rivers and Ponds, Poetry
Evocative watercolors and short, lyrical poems take readers on a trip, “Around our round world”...
Water Wonders: The Curious Adventures of Sydney & Symon / Las Maravillas del agua
By: Peter H. Reynolds, Paul A. Reynolds
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Oceans, Rivers and Ponds
In this bilingual book, two young scientists, Sydney and Symon Starr, a sister and brother team...
Age Level: 9-12 years old
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Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities
By: Jonathan Litton
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures
There are many ways to say Hello! There’s more than just “hi!” People world-over say it in their...
Magic Moments / Momentos Magicos
By: Olga Loya
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths
A bilingual collection of 15 traditional tales from Latin America, including: Scary Stories,...
Sharuko: Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello / El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Theme: Detectives and Explorers, Geography, Travel and Cultures
Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and...