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10 best books like Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia (Carmen Lomas Garza): The Composition, Frida, Chato and the Party Animals, Abuela, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Diego: Bigger Than Life, My Abuelita, Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona, What Can You Do with a Rebozo?, Just in Case

The Composition
AuthorAntonio Skármeta
ISBN0888995504
Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awarda and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things...
Frida
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0590203207
When her mother was worn out from caring for her five sisters, her father gave her lessons in brushwork and color. When polio kept her bedridden for nine months, drawing saved her from boredom. When a bus accident left her in unimaginable agony, her paintings expressed her pain and depression - and eventually,...
Chato and the Party Animals
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0399231595
Chato, the coolest cat in el barrio, loves to party--but not his best buddy, Novio Boy. Birthday parties always make him blue. "I'm from the pound," he tells Chato. "I don't know when I was born. I never knew my mami. I never even had a birthday party, or nothing."So Chato plans the coolest surprise party...
Abuela
AuthorArthur Dorros
ISBN0140562257
I found this book at a thrift store the other day, and as soon as I saw it a memory was triggered: my own Abuela (aka Grammie) would read stacks of books to us grandchildren and this was one of them. I had forgotten all about it! I didn't buy it, but it was nice to glance through it and have some good memories. It...
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
AuthorCarmen Agra Deedy
ISBN1561453994
Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage.
That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking...
Diego: Bigger Than Life
AuthorCarmen T. Bernier-Grand
ISBN0761453830
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand's inspiring free verse and David Diaz's vivid paintings capture the defining moments and emotions of Diego Rivera's tumultuous life, including his stormy relationship with artist Frida Kahlo and his passion for his art. Rivera's energy, physique, love for women, and work...
My Abuelita
AuthorTony Johnston
ISBN0152163301
Winner of a 2010 Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor!

Abuelita’s hair is the color of salt. Her face is as crinkled as a dried chile. She booms out words as wild as blossoms blooming. She stuffs her carcacha—her jalopy—with all the things she needs: a plumed snake, a castle, a skeleton, and more....
Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona
AuthorGloria E. Anzaldúa
ISBN0892391677
Ever since she can remember, Prietita has heard terrifying tales of la llorona — the legendary ghost woman who steals children at night. Against a background of vibrant folk paintings, Gloria Anzaldua reinterprets, in a bilingual format, one of the most famous Mexican legends. In this version,...
What Can You Do with a Rebozo?
AuthorCarmen Tafolla
ISBN1582462208
What can you use
to dress up,
play hide-and-seek,
carry baby brother,
and DANCE with?

A rebozo!

In a playful celebration of a vibrant culture, a young girl and her family show all the things they do in their daily lives with a rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl....
Just in Case
AuthorYuyi Morales
ISBN1596433299
THREE-TIME PURA BELPRÉ WINNER

Yuyi Morales takes us on a new journey with Señor Calvera, the skeleton from Day of the Dead celebrations. Señor Calvera is worried. He can’t figure out what to give Grandma Beetle for her birthday. Misunderstanding the advice of Zelmiro the Ghost, Señor...
The Pot That Juan Built
AuthorNancy Andrews-Goebel
ISBN1584300388
Juan Quezada is the premier potter in Mexico. With local materials and the primitive methods of the Casas Grandes people -- including using human hair to make brushes and cow manure to feed the flames that fire his pots -- Juan creates stunning pots in the traditional style. Each is a work of art unlike...
Mice and Beans
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439701368
Category: Family

Recipe for a Festive Story Time: Mix 1 birthday party, 1 delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests into a fun romp. Add comic illustrations, jaunty rhythms, and playful refrains. Spice with mystery, and stir...
Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English: Bilingual Spanish-English
AuthorAlma Flor Ada
ISBN0688170676
In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them. Simple poems in Spanish and English, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet, describe the wonder of the vegetable and fruit farms. Together,...
My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá
AuthorAmada Irma Pérez
ISBN0892391758
This richly and evocatively illustrated dual-language picture book (with Maya Christina Gonzalez' brilliantly colouful, lushly descriptive accompanying illustrations truly being redolent of the colours, the very feeling of Mexico, of Latino/Latina culture in general) tells the story of author...
Hairs/Pelitos
AuthorSandra Cisneros
ISBN0679890076
This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.

A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.

A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year

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Gracias Thanks
AuthorPat Mora
ISBN1600602584
I did not consider Gracias Thanks by Pat Mora with illustrations by John Parra as a “must read” the first, second, or even third time I looked at it. The only reason I kept looking at it was because of the personal respect and expectations I have accumulated for her as an author. I remember the first time...
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
AuthorKatie Smith Milway
ISBN1554534887
Eleven-year-old María Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books.

When María's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden....
Kamishibai Man
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0618479546
The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children came running at the sound of his clappers. They were all watching their new televisions instead. Finally, only one boy remained, and he had no money...
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN0810938723
From first-time Mexican author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh comes the story of two cousins, one in America and one in Mexico, and how their daily lives are different yet similar. Charlie takes the subway to school; Carlitos rides his bike. Charlie plays in fallen leaves; Carlitos plays among the...
The Night of Las Posadas
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0698119010
Tomie dePaola's glorious paintings are as luminous as the farolitos that light up on the Plaza in Santa Fe for the procession of Las Posadas, the tradition in which Mary and Joseph go from door to door seeking shelter at the inn on Christmas Eve.This year Sister Angie, who is always in charge of the clebration,...
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