Alma Flor Ada

A dozen stories celebrate the holidays from Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Chinese New Year to Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and both Christmas and Three Kings Day.

Determined to steal an old woman's gold coin, a young thief follows her all around the countryside and finds himself involved in a series of unexpected activities.

A little rabbit must collect a variety of eggs to be decorated for Easter.

In this cumulative folktale from Latin America, the sun sets off a chain of events which results in the cleaning of Rooster's beak in time for his uncle's wedding.

As a young boy presents his mother with a bouquet of flowers which he has picked, he tells her that he is not responsible for the messes found around the home.

Eggs are laid by various creatures that turn into chicks, mosquitoes, butterflies, frogs, lizards, hummingbirds, turtles, and snakes.

Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. Michiko lives in Los Angeles and is Peruvian and Japanese. Each of them is also Latino. Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich diversity of the Latino and Latina experience in the United States. Free-verse fictional narratives from the perspective of each youth provide specific...

Elena needs to fill a pinata, but spends all of her money buying things for others. When she brings the pinata to school she is amazed to find that it is full of goodies.

The different shapes of many colors decide that although they are not alike they can be friends.

A traditional Mexican folktale in which a faithful lizard finds the sun which brings light and warmth back to the world.