Aprendo de mi maestro (I Learn from My Teacher)

A heartwarming and authentic immigration story about a stray dog, the power of music, and celebrating old traditions along with new beginnings, by Pura Belpré Award-winning author Yamile Saied Méndez. La vida de María Emilia se vuelve patas arriba cuando ella y su familia migran desde Argentina a Estados Unidos. Cómo puede hacer amigos si tan solo hablar inglés el día entero es agotador? Por suerte tiene la compañía de una perrita callejera en el barrio, que luce y se comporta exactamente como una gata que tenía en su país natal. Más tarde resulta que no es una perrita callejera,...

Winner at the 2012 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. A subtle, deceptively simple book about the relationship between a kid and his Grandfather, suffering from Alzeimer’s. Love and understanding are often the best tools for dealing with this problem. And who better to help than a mischievous grandson? Grandpa Monty is a bit confused: he tries to roast the chicken inside the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins, gloves mixed up with socks, and he’s always forgetting my name! My mom and uncle Andrew are worried things could get worse, so they decided it was best if Grandpa ...

Wonderfully atmospheric illustrations capture the feeling of a foggy, gray winter afternoon as well as the lonesome, hopeful watchfulness so familiar to any child, as a little girl stands at a frosty window, drawing pictures in the condensation on the windowpane waiting for her mother to come home.

Elevators that give everything for the love of a staircase, a teardrop in love with a handkerchief, a tangerine without a peel, the thoughts of a bus, and many more stories to awaken the imagination. Read this book carefully, and little by little, to enjoy it to the maximum, and to fully experience the different moods that each story evokes.