Elisa Amado
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Before he heads out for his first day of school, Chepito encounters a variety of people in his neighborhood, each of whom is reading something, from a newspaper to a comic book to a car mechanic's manual.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The powerful story of a child refugee seeking asylum in America Thirteen-year-old Manuelito is a gentle boy who lives with his family in a tiny village in the Guatemalan countryside. But life is far from idyllic: PACs--armed civil patrol--are a constant presence in the streets, and terrifying memories of the country's war linger in the villagers' collective conscience. Things deteriorate further when government-backed drug gangs arrive and take control...
3) No
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Winter has come but little bear doesn't want to go to sleep as bears usually do for the winter season. He wants to continue to play despite his mother's warnings, that it will get very, very cold, there will be nothing to eat, the winds will blow very hard and the snow will get very deep. Little bear just won't come inside the cave, until....he finds himslef all alone in a blinding snowstorm.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A powerful introduction to forced disappearances for readers 10 and up. By a closed door, a child waits for his uncle, who is coming to stay. As he waits, he imagines all the fun things they'll do when he arrives: his uncle can teach him how to block a penalty shot and the boy can show him how well he is doing in school. But his uncle never arrives. Page by page, the boy grows older sitting in the same position, waiting to show his uncle his degree,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Napí, una niña mazateca, recuerda el tiempo en que su familia y otras familias tuvieron que abandonar el pueblo, debido a la construcción por el gobierno de una presa que inundaría todas las casas. Lo que Napí recuerda con más intensidad es el roce que su papá tuvo con la muerte al momento de la cosecha.
When the government builds a dam that will flood Napí's Mazatec village, the people must move to a new site far away, where they burn the...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Kids 9 to 12 will laugh out loud while reading this adventurous graphic novel, which brings an African folk tale to life for a new audience. When Sarra's parents die, they leave her with an important warning: never let Dan Auta, her little brother, cry. But Dan Auta loves to make trouble. He hitches a ride on the back of a bird, pokes the eye of the king's son, and even pees on the king's head. Making sure he doesn't cry is much harder than Sarra...
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the previous cooking poems, "Guacamole" conveys the fun and pleasure...
15) Wounded falcons
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A story about the heart-opening effect that taking care of a wounded creature has on a wounded boy, from acclaimed picture-book creators Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng. Adrián is always in trouble, at school and at home, while Santiago gets along quite well. But they are friends. When Adrián finds a wounded bird in an abandoned lot in the midst of the city, things begin to change. Taking care of the bird, learning all about it, discovering...
16) Drawing outdoors
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Maybe your school has a playground, gym, computers, and a library. But at this school in a faraway mountain range, things are a little different. There’s a blackboard, some chairs … and not much else. But with the help of an extraordinary teacher and a little imagination, anything is possible! The students in this spirited picture book spend their days drawing dinosaurs outdoors. They draw astounding, spectacular creatures that come...
17) Wolf wanted
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Manny Wolf rewrites a help wanted ad, clarifying that a real wolf is needed so that a documentary can be made to show people what real wolves are like and how different they are from their big, bad fictional counterparts who've applied for the job.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world.
19) Cave paintings
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Our hero travels all alone on a spaceship, through the universe, past galaxies, comets and planets to go visit his grandmother on Earth for the summer holidays. She takes him to visit an ancient cave, where he discovers handprints and drawings of unknown animals made by human beings just like him. To top off his wonderful holiday she gives him mysterious objects that once belonged to his grandfather -- paper and crayons."--
Author
Publisher
Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we are today. As far back as 40,000 years ago (and maybe...
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