Six kids are ready to play: three speak English. Y tres hablan español [and three speak Spanish]. But all of them laugh alike and together! This clever playground adventure weaves together bilingual E
Born in 1927 in Yuma, Arizona, Cesar Chavez lived the hard-scrabble life of a migrant worker during the Depression. Although his mother wanted him to get an education, Cesar left school after eighth g
Free verse poems and oil paintings pay tribute to the artist who was best known for co-founding the Cubist movement, touching upon his relationships with the women in his life and the sources of his i
Alicia Alonso’s artistic achievements are remarkable, considering that she became partially blind and lost her peripheral vision at age nineteen. From childhood, she exhibited a passion for dancing, s
On August 8, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the U.S. Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice and the third woman to serve the Court. In elegant free verse, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand describes Sotomayor's r
Retells the 16th-century Mexican legend about the Virgin Mary, who appears to the peasant Juan Diego requesting that he appeal to the bishop to have a shrine built for her. By the Pura Belpre Award-wi
