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Illustrations and easy-to-read text portray a busy toddler playdate full of playing, taking turns, sharing, and more.

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...

Toddlers have fun at gymnastics class.

A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.

Poems in Spanish and English describe the author's boyhood as a refugee from rural El Salvador living in San Francisco, where he had to cope with a new language, a new culture, and a very different way of life.

Recounts the traditional tale of the race between the persevering tortoise and the boastful hare. Sumario en español: Cuenta de nuevo el relato tradicional de la carrera entre la tortuga de la perseverencia y la liebre presumida.

When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, José and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana. Cuando su madre es enviada de vuelta a México por no tener los documentos adecuados de inmigración, José y su padre van desde San Diego, California, a visitarla en Tijuana.

La gata de un niñito se le ha perdido, y por eso se lanza a una travesía fantástica a través del mundo en busca de su mascota. En el camino, conoce a mucha gente interesante y ve a varios miembros muy hermosos de la familia de los gatos, incluidos leones, tigres y panteras. Pero una y otra vez tiene que decir, "¡Esta no es mi gata!", hasta que al fin la encunetra -- ¡y descubre que le tiene una grata sorpresa! A young boy encounters all sorts...

Giggle, giggle, quack: Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, but Duck has changed the care instructions for the animals. The most wonderful egg in the world: Several animals have very beautiful features, but whoever lays the most wonderful egg will be crowned princess. Wings : a tale of two chickens: Winnie unknowingly goes for a balloon ride with a sly fox. Can Winnie's sensible friend Harriet rescue Winnie before she...