Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco
9 best books like Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco (Judith Robbins Rose): The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Islandborn, Museum Trip, Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day; Celebremos El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros (Bilingual Spanish-English), Poor Little Guy, Erika's Story, Rainstorm, We Came to America
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0375867740 |
Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis...
Alma and How She Got Her Name
| Author | Juana Martinez-Neal |
| ISBN | 0763693553 |
What's in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be.
If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for...
| Author | Junot Díaz |
| ISBN | 0735229864 |
Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.
So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby....
| Author | Barbara Lehman |
| ISBN | 0618581251 |
I like this wordless picture book tale of a class visit to an art museum, where a boy gets separated from his class and enters a room where there are drawings of mazes. (The art museum itself seems a kind of maze, too.) He enters some of these mazes and successfully traverses them and wins a medal, (for some...
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 0061288772 |
Take a ride in a long submarine or fly away in a hot air balloon. Whatever you do, just be sure to bring your favorite book! Rafael López's colorful illustrations perfectly complement Pat Mora's lilting text in this delightful celebration of El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book...
| Author | Elanna Allen |
| ISBN | 0525428259 |
With the cheeky twist of Jon Klassen’s This Is Not My Hat and the graphic appeal of Mo Willems, Poor Little Guy will leave kids giggling…and begging for rereads!
What do you do when you're so tiny that the bigger ocean creatures think you might even taste adorable?
An itsy-bitsy,...
| Author | Ruth Vander Zee |
| ISBN | 1568461763 |
Although a picture book in form and shape, Erika’s Story is not for preschoolers. Innocenti’s famous photographic-style paintings in largely sepia tones (except a pink blanket wrapped baby thrown from a train) intensify the austerity of the tale. One of his previously published books, Rose...
| Author | Barbara Lehman |
| ISBN | 0618756396 |
A wordless story that I must admit I couldn’t tell if this was imagination or if the boy was really going someplace. It’s a rainy day and an only child is bored. He finds a key and finds the lock it goes in. It leads to a secret passage that ends up in a lighthouse where there are other children to play with....
| Author | Faith Ringgold |
| ISBN | 0517709473 |
A timely and beautiful look at America's rich history of immigration and diversity, from Faith Ringgold, the Coretta Scott King and Caldecot Honor winning creator of Tar Beach
From the Native Americans who first called this land their home, to the millions of people who have flocked to its...
