Elisa Amado

Before he leaves on his first day of school, Chepito plays outside and encounters many different people in his neighborhood who are all reading, and each person has a different response when Chepito asks them "Why?"

Juan, a Quiché Indian boy from the village of Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, his brother, and his friends make a giant kite to fly on the Day of the Dead in memory of Juan's grandfather, who taught him how to make the traditional kites.

Friendship - to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinner with her family - a family that feels free to eat weird food and, even worse, burst...

Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world.

A young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn...

Cuando una niña mueve su mano, ella cambia el mundo como ella lo descubre. A medida que mueve su mundo conocido, descubre que su propio poder y crea todo de nuevo. El poema, escrito por el poeta argentino Jorge Luján, viene de una cultura saturada con la magia, en la que incluso los más pequeños pueden hacer que el mundo a través del acercamiento y moverlo. When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she...

It's winter and little bear doesn't want to go to sleep. He'd rather play, and he's sure he won't get cold outside, no matter how long the winter is, how deep the snow might get, or how hard the storm might blow. Until, that is, little bear finds himself all alone in a snowstorm.

Stephen attempts to squish a beetle but has second thoughts. Stephen spies a beetle on the sidewalk and is prepared to strike down on it with his shoe, but he ends up having second thoughts.

After his parents say "goodnight," turn off his lights, and close his door, a young boy imagines creatures coming out of the dark ceiling above his bed.