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Jabutí the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon

9 best books like Jabutí the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon (Gerald McDermott): The Day the Crayons Quit, How My Parents Learned to Eat, I Hate English!, Elizabeti's Doll, Beautiful Blackbird, The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, Angel Child, Dragon Child, Leaves, Allison

The Day the Crayons Quit
AuthorDrew Daywalt
ISBN0399255370
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!

Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown. Blue needs a break from coloring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange...
How My Parents Learned to Eat
AuthorIna R. Friedman
ISBN0395442354
This is a wonderful story to show that the way people EAT food is so much a part of their culture. The little girl in the story has a Japanese mom and an American dad and she explains that sometimes they eat with chopsticks and sometimes with knives and forks. She goes on to explain about how her parents met...
I Hate English!
AuthorEllen Levine
ISBN0590423045
"I Hate English" is a realistic-fiction book who tells the story in which a young girl Mei Mei hates English like the title suggests. She is a immigrant girl who just moved from Hong Kong. She misses everything that has to do with her hometown, but most importantly the language. She struggles throughout...
Elizabeti's Doll
AuthorStephanie Stuve-Bodeen
ISBN1584300817
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva.

When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva....
Beautiful Blackbird
AuthorAshley Bryan
ISBN0689847319
Black is beautiful, uh-huh!

Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although...
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
AuthorDianne Snyder
ISBN0395440904
I really enjoyed this story. It is an adapted Japanese folktale. A mother is raising a son who loves to sleep. He sleeps all the time. He is a trickster. He comes up with a plan to have a life so that he does not have to work. The whole town knows he is lazy and they call him the boy of the 3 year nap. His mother works...
Angel Child, Dragon Child
AuthorMichele Maria Surat
ISBN0590422715
Ut comes to the United States from Vietnam along with her father and siblings. Ut misses her mother who has had to stay behind in Vietnam because there is not enough money to bring everyone to America. Ut must deal with the cruel children in her school who make fun of her wardrobe and the way she speaks. One...
Leaves
AuthorDavid Ezra Stein
ISBN0399246363
It's a young bear's first autumn, and the falling leaves surprise him. He tries to put them back on the trees, but it doesn't work. Eventually, he gets sleepy, and burrows into the fallen leaves for a long nap. When he wakes up, it's spring and there are suddenly brand-new leaves all around, welcoming him....
Allison
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0618495371
When Allison tries on the red kimono her grandmother has sent her, she is suddenly aware that she resembles her favorite doll more than she does her mother and father. When her parents try to explain that she is adopted, her world becomes an uncomfortable place. She becomes angry and withdrawn. She wonders...
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