My Abuelita
10 best books like My Abuelita (Tony Johnston): Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, My Colors, My World, The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred, Me, Frida, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Diego: Bigger Than Life, My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez, Los Gatos Black on Halloween, What Can You Do with a Rebozo?, Just in Case
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0152014373 |
Cesar Chavez is known as one of America's greatest civil rights leaders. When he led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But Cesar wasn't always a leader. As a boy, he was shy and teased at school. His family...
| Author | Maya Christina González |
| ISBN | 0892392215 |
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
| Author | Samantha R. Vamos |
| ISBN | 1580892426 |
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...
| Author | Amy Novesky |
| ISBN | 0810989697 |
Like a tiny bird in a big city, Frida Kahlo feels lost and lonely when she arrives in San Francisco with her husband, the famous artist Diego Rivera. It is the first time she has left her home in Mexico. And Frida wants to be a painter too.
But as Frida begins to explore San Francisco on her own, she...
| Author | Carmen Agra Deedy |
| ISBN | 1561453994 |
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...
| Author | Carmen T. Bernier-Grand |
| ISBN | 0761453830 |
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...
| Author | Monica Brown |
| ISBN | 0873589084 |
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...
| Author | Marisa Montes |
| ISBN | 0805074295 |
Follow los monstruos and los esqueletos to the Halloween party
Under October's luna, full and bright, the monsters are throwing a ball in the Haunted Hall. Las brujas come on their broomsticks. Los muertos rise from their coffins to join in the fun. Los esqueletos rattle their bones as they...
| Author | Carmen Tafolla |
| ISBN | 1582462208 |
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....
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 1596433299 |
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...
| Author | Arthur Dorros |
| ISBN | 0060581565 |
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;...
| Author | Carmen Lomas Garza |
| ISBN | 0892392061 |
Sandra Lomas Garza depicts scenes from her working-class childhood in Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia She also did this in another similar picture for children (and adults) In My Family/En mi familia.
This year, I am doing an informal study of What Does IT Mean to be Hispanic, my reading thread...
| Author | Lucia M. Gonzalez |
| ISBN | 0892392223 |
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...
| Author | Nancy Andrews-Goebel |
| ISBN | 1584300388 |
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...
| Author | Pooja Makhijani |
| ISBN | 0316011053 |
When a young girl eyes her mother's suitcase full of gorgeous silk, cotton and embroidered saris, she decides that she, too, should wear one, even though she is too young for such clothing. When the mother finally realizes how important it is for her little girl to feel like a big girl on her seventh birthday,...
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 1600602584 |
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...
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
| Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
| ISBN | 0810938723 |
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...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0698116003 |
Chato can't believe his luck. Not only is he the coolest low-riding cat in East L.A., but his brand-new neighbors are the plumpest, juciest, tastiest-looking family of mice to move into the barrio in a long time. So Chato and his best friend, Novio Boy, get out the pots and pans, the tortillas and the beans--everything...
