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Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors

srlombard — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 02:07:48 +0000

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Green is a chile pepper, spicy and hot. Green is cilantro inside our pot. In this lively picture book, children discover a world of colors all around them: red is spices and swirling skirts, yellow is masa, tortillas, and sweet corn cake. Many of the featured objects are Latino in origin, but all are universal in appeal. With rich, boisterous illustrations, a fun-to-read rhyming text, and an informative glossary, this playful concept book will reinforce the colors found in every child’s day!

Source: http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/green-is-a-chile-pepper.html

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Chronicle Books

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978-145210203

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Roseanne Thong

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John Parra

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Used with permission from Chronicle Books, San Francisco. Please visit www.ChronicleBooks.com.

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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music

srlombard — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:23:05 +0000

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Imagination allows you the freedom to be who you want to be and do what you love to do, even when society dictates otherwise. No one knows this better than Drum Dream Girl. In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female drummers.

Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule—until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.

Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba’s traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.

Source: http://hmhyoungreadersblog.com/kids/picturebookparade-beats-on-with-drum...

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HMH Books for Young Readers

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978-054410229

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Margarita Engle

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Rafael López

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Central America and the Caribbean

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Cuba

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Circles of Hope

jjohnsto — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:44 +0000

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Young Facile wants to plant a tree in honor of his new baby sister, but he faces many obstacles. The first seed he plants is eaten by a goat, the second seed is washed away in a storm, and another seed is burnt by a scrub fire. Will Facile ever be able to plant a tree that will grow strong for baby Lucía? In this story of determination, faith, and love, author Karen Lynn Williams introduces readers to the realities of rural life in the mountains of Haiti. Imbued with brilliant colors, expressive characters, and vivid landscapes, Linda Saport’s illustrations capture the indomitable spirit of hope.

Source: http://www.karenlynnwilliams.com/circles.html

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Eerdmans Books For Young Readers, 2005

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9780802853967

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Karen Lynn Williams

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Linda Saport

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Central America and the Caribbean

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Haiti

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Grandma’s Gift

jjohnsto — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:42:39 +0000

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The story about “Grandma’s Gift” started when Ms. Carmen, grandmother of Eric Velasquez author and illustrator, went to pick him up to the school for the school vacation. The teacher handed a note to grandma about the holiday project that Eric should do during that time. Eric had to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in the Fifth Avenue to see a famous painting that it was brought and write a report. In the meantime, grandma was planning to make “pasteles” a traditional dish from Puerto Rico to celebrate the Christmas with the family. Grandma compromised with Eric to bring him to the museum if he helped her with elaboration of the “pasteles” for the family dinner in Christmas Eve. Grandma and Eric took the train to go to “La Marqueta” to buy the ingredients for the “pasteles”.

Grandma and Eric arrived home, they started the ”pasteles”, while they were doing it, grandma asked Eric to put a music record with the traditional Christmas music of Puerto Rico. They enjoyed working together. Once the “pasteles: were done, grandma treated Eric very special by boiling him some for him to be the first one to try it. After, they went to the museum to start Eric holiday project. While there, grandma noticed and recognized the character in the painting. Juan de Pareja who was a slave (1610-1670) and assistant in the workshop of the famous painter, Diego Velazquez. He painted Parejas’ portrait in 1650, and immediately gained him claim. He gave Pareja his freedom, but they continued working together. That evening Eric’s parents brought arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas and roasted pork to have the Christmas Eve dinner. After the dinner, grandma told the story how she learned about Juan de Parejas while living in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Then, granma gave Eric a sketchbook and his first set of colored pencils. While they were listening to “Aguinaldo Puertorriqueno, Eric began to draw his first self-portrait.

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Walker & Company, 2010

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9780802720825

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Eric Velasquez

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Eric Velasquez

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http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/grandmas-gift-9780802720825/

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The Golden Flower

szachs — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:50:49 +0000

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The syncopated prose of Nina Jaffe draws the reader to the island of Puerto Rico, back before the Spaniards arrived. The island was inhabited by the Taínos, and they called their beloved island, Boriquén. This is their story of how Boriquén came to be.

In the beginning, there is only a giant mountain above a dry plain without water or plants. When a child walks over the flat land below the mountain, he finds seeds dancing in the wind. When he plants the seeds on the top of the mountain, a forest grows on the crest and in that forest, a large golden flower appears. Soon, the boy and his community reap benefits that they had never before imagined.

A joyful creation myth about the evolution of a beautiful island habitat, this picture book, originally published by Simon & Schuster, is also a celebration of the young boy’s quest, which encourages young readers, ages 4-8, to respect the gifts of the winds and the cycle of nature that bears fruit for the whole community.

Jaffe’s adaptation of this traditional folktale common to indigenous peoples of South America and the Caribbean stemmed from her encounter with a Spanish-language text by Carmen Puigdollers, “Como se formó la bella isla de Boriquén,” and research in Puerto Rico.

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Piñata Books for Children, 2005

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1558854525

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Nina Jaffe

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Enrique O. Sánchez

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English

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The Golden Flower

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The Golden Flower

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The Golden Flower

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Central America and the Caribbean

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Puerto Rico

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Cover image is reprinted with permission from the publisher of “The Golden Flower” by Enrique O. Sanchez

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Sopa de Frijoles

szachs — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:48:23 +0000

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This is a poetic bilingual book Spanish/English in which a child from a latino middle class family is tired of playing video games and begins to cook a bean soup for his family. The mother is nearby to support him. Written in the third person the book is a bean soup recipe in a poem form. It includes the ingredients and how to make the soup. The author uses figurative language that is beautiful and yet accessible to young people. He compares beans to stars. He talks about a dancing fire hugging the pot.

The family in this story is a traditional family with stereotypical job distribution, which can be used as a start a discussion about different types of families. Another subject of discussion can be the use of video games and the power involved in making the decision to do something else when video games become tedious. The story show how by making the decision to cook and helping the family, the child grows as a person.

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Groundwood Books, 2009

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9780888998811

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Jorge Argueta

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Rafael Yockteng

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Sopa de Frijoles

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http://houseofanansi.com/products/sopa-de-frijoles-bean-soup

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