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10 best books like Los Gatos Black on Halloween (Marisa Montes): My Colors, My World, The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Diego: Bigger Than Life, My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez, My Abuelita, What Can You Do with a Rebozo?, Just in Case, Papá and Me, The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos

My Colors, My World
AuthorMaya Christina González
ISBN0892392215
Little Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful, inspiring color in her world....but Maya's world, the Mojave Desert, seems to be filled with nothing but sand. With the help of a feathered friend, she searches everywhere to discover color in her world. In the brilliant purple of her mother's flowers,...
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred
AuthorSamantha R. Vamos
ISBN1580892426
I am lucky to work in a children’s room with a significantly sized bilingual section. The books you’ll find there cover a wide range of languages. Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, you name it. Of them the largest section by far is the Spanish language section. Of course, what we don’t really include in this...
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 Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez
AuthorMonica Brown
ISBN0873589084
Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel García Márquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He...
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....
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...
Papá and Me
AuthorArthur Dorros
ISBN0060581565
In Papá and Me, a young boy and his papa may speak both Spanish and English, but the most important language they speak is the language of love. In this beautiful bilingual picture book, Arthur Dorros portrays the close bond between father and son, with lush paintings by Rudy Gutierrez. Fans of Abuelo;...
The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos
AuthorLucia M. Gonzalez
ISBN0892392223
It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and...
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...
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...
Shake Dem Halloween Bones
AuthorW. Nikola-Lisa
ISBN0618070346
It's Halloween night. The city is quiet. The city is still. But as the lights go down, the music comes up - and the guests start to arrive at the hip-hop Halloween ball! And oh, what a party it is. Told in hip-hop rhyming text, L'il Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Tom Thumb, and all of their fairy-tale friends...
Maria Had a Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita
AuthorAngela Dominguez
ISBN0805093338
Everyone knows about Mary and her little lamb. But do you know Maria?


      With gorgeous, Peruvian-inspired illustrations and English and Spanish retellings, Angela Dominguez gives a fresh new twist to the classic rhyme. Maria and her mischievous little llama will steal your...
Mouse's First Halloween
AuthorLauren Thompson
ISBN0689855842
Now perhaps author Lauren Thompson's presented message that one need not be worried about and frightenend of everything (of so many things) is an important lesson to be learned by young Mouse (and indeed by everyone). However, and logically speaking, considering that bats and kittens do indeed both...
Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors
AuthorRoseanne Thong
ISBN1452102031
This book is a mixture of Spanish and English words. It’s a simple book that talks about the things that are of specific colors in Hispanic culture. This book has a rhyming text and also teaches how to say each color in Spanish and English.
This book is an award-winning book from ‘Pura Belpre Honor...
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