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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 [15]
Rhymes from Spanish speaking countries are presented in Spanish and recreated in English to form...
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About Birds / Sobre los parjaros
By: Catherine Sill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals [18]
Handsome, realistic illustrations accompanied by straightforward information about North...
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Abuela
By: Arthur Dorros
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Flight [21]
Rosalba imagines flying over New York City with her much loved abuela. The young girl uses...
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Around the World in a Bathtub
By: Wade Bradford
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures [24]
Everywhere people take baths, but baths and bathing traditions are different in places and...
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Arroz con Leche
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Fiction [27], Poetry [15]
These traditional rhymes and songs from Latin America are presented in both English and Spanish...
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Colores de la Vida
By: Cynthia Weill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Art and Artists [30], Geography, Travel and Cultures [24]
Animal sculptures on carefully composed pages with the color words provide a fine introduction...
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Cuckoo: A Mexican Folktale / Cucu: Un cuento folklorico mexicano
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
Lazy Cuckoo has a beautiful singing voice and brightly colored feathers — until he loses them...
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Cuddled and Carried / Consentido y cargado
By: Dia Michels
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals [18]
Bilingual book celebrates the bond between parent and child in the animal kingdom. Babies —...
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Green Is a Chile Pepper
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures [24], Cooking and Food [38]
Colors introduce foods and more Mexico and other Spanish-speaking counties. Naïve style...
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Hello Ocean / Hola Mar
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Oceans, Rivers and Ponds [41]
A child narrates her visit to the ocean, inviting readers to explore it with her. She experiences...
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I Love Saturdays y domingos
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Family and Community [44]
A girl visits both sets of grandparents on weekends. On Saturdays, she speaks English with Grandpa...
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Josefina
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Art and Artists [30], Geography, Travel and Cultures [24], Math and Measuring [47]
Count along in English and Spanish with a Mexican folk artist as she sculpts her world from clay...
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La Princesa and the Pea
By: Susan Middleton Elya
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
El príncipe knows this girl is the one for him, but, as usual, his mother doesn’t agree. The...
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Medio Pollito / Half-Chicken
By: Alma Flor Ada
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
Do you know why a weather vane has a little rooster on the top, spinning around to tell us which...
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Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
Look at the moon and what do you see? Could it be Fox? Fox convinced Mole to accompany him to...
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Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Poetry [15]
Neftali always loved nature and words. This fondness allowed Neftali — better known as Pablo...
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Paco and the Giant Chile Plant
By: Keith Polette
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
The Southwestern desert is the setting for this humorous variation on the classic fairy tale "...
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Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes
By: Roseanne Thong
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures [24], Poetry [15]
Circles, squares, triangles, ovals and stars are all around! The rhyming text incorporates Spanish...
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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 [32]
Travel with Bossy Rooster to his uncle's wedding. Of course the road is not entirely smooth in...
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The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story
By: Rudolfo Anaya
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
Based on an ancient Mexican legend, this story introduces young readers to the importance of...
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The Park Our Town Built
By: Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Civics and Our Government [64], Family and Community [44]
In the style of "The House That Jack Built," Diane Gonzales Bertrand offers a lively picture...
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The Runaway Piggy
By: James Luna
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
In the classic tradition of "The Gingerbread Man," these piggy cookie leaps off the baking tray...
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Tito Puente, Mambo King
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures [24], Music and Musicians [69]
Tito Puente was born to be a musician. He grew up to become the Mamba King to whose music people...
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Tomás and the Library Lady
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Theme: Family and Community [44]
Tomás, child of migrant workers, visits the town library to find stories like the ones told by...
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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 [32]
Adelita’s stepmother and stepsisters relegate her to kitchen duties after her father dies - and...
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Barrio: José's Neighborhood/Barrio: El barrio de José
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community [44]
José lives in a diverse neighborhood where he's just as likely to hear Spanish, English, or...
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Chavela and the Magic Bubble
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Nature: Our Green World [77]
Chavela loves chomping chicle — chewing gum and blowing bubbles. One day, while out with her...
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Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia
By: Carmen Garza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community [44]
The artist recalls growing up in south Texas in this celebration of family and cultural...
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Finding the Music/En pos de la musica
By: Jennifer Torres
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Music and Musicians [69]
Reyna accidentally breaks her abuelo’s vihuela and tries to fix it before her family finds out....
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Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems/Aleteo y Zumbido: Poemas de Animales
By: Julie Paschkis
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Birds and Animals [18], Bugs [82], Poetry [15]
Short poems about animals appear in English and Spanish accompanied by textured illustrations...
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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 [24], Poetry [15]
The poet remembers summers growing up in Mexico in poems presented in both English and Spanish....
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Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña
By: Marsha Diane Arnold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures [24], Nature: Our Green World [77], Oceans, Rivers and Ponds [41]
As a Galápagueña, Valentina spends her days observing the natural world around her. This...
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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 [41], Poetry [15]
Whenever Maya visits the river, the river jumps up to greet her. It cools her when the summer...
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In My Family/En mi familia
By: Carmen Garza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community [44]
Kingsville, on the border of Mexico and Texas, comes to life in words and pictures in this book...
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Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
By: Yuyi Morales
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
This original trickster tale, featuring featuring Señor Calavera and Grandma Beetle, is a...
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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 [32]
Señor Calavera is back in this new original trickster tale about a Día de los Muertos skeleton...
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Mango, Abuela, and Me
By: Meg MedinaAngela
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Family and Community [44], Geography, Travel and Cultures [24]
When a little girl’s far-away grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend language....
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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
By: Carmen Agra Deedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Bugs [82], Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
A sweet retelling of the Cuban folktale, full of puns and a sprinkling of Spanish. When it is...
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My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Geography, Travel and Cultures [24], Music and Musicians [69]
The beautiful artwork of this award-winning picture book about salsa queen Celia Cruz practically...
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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 [24]
As she did in My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia, Monica Brown tells the story of young...
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My Name Is Gabriela / Me llamo Gabriela
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Poetry [15]
"My name is Gabriela Mistral. It is a name I chose myself because I like the sound of it." With...
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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 [18], Geography, Travel and Cultures [24]
Animals from the Ecuadorian Andes cloud forest are introduced in stunning illustrations and...
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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 [32]
Animals and people wise and foolish are presented in these tales retold. Their origins, from a...
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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 [32]
Spanish words add flavor to these appealing folktales, cuentos favoritos, carefully illustrated...
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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 [110], Geography, Travel and Cultures [24]
A bilingual picture book biography of Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello,...
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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 [113]
This bilingual book pairs the dual stories of powerful activists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta...
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The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred
By: Samantha Vamos
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Cooking and Food [38], Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
Start with a farm maiden and a pot, invite some friends to help her, and before you know it, you...
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The Korean Cinderella
By: Shirley Climo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
the story of Pear Blossom, a lovely girl who is sorely mistreated by her nasty stepmother and...
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The Legend of the Caribou Boy / Ekwò Dǫzhìa Wegond
By: George Blondin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
When a little boy, traveling with his parents and grandparents, has trouble sleeping at night,...
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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 [32]
Lucia Zenteno is a mythic character, a woman of great beauty who is perfectly in tune with...
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Water Rolls, Water Rises/El agua rueda, el agua sube
By: Pat Mora
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Theme: Oceans, Rivers and Ponds [41], Poetry [15]
Evocative watercolors and short, lyrical poems take readers on a trip, “Around our round world”...
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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 [41]
In this bilingual book, two young scientists, Sydney and Symon Starr, a sister and brother team...
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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 [24]
There are many ways to say Hello! There’s more than just “hi!” People world-over say it in their...
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Magic Moments / Momentos Magicos
By: Olga Loya
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Theme: Folktales, Fairy Tales and Myths [32]
A bilingual collection of 15 traditional tales from Latin America, including: Scary Stories,...
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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 [110], Geography, Travel and Cultures [24]
Peruvian archaeologist and national icon Julio C. Tello unearthed Peru's ancient cultures and...
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