In their Guatemalan village, it's been a tradition for Juan and his grandfather to build and fly a big kite every November 2, the Day of the Dead, to honor deceased loved ones, but now that his grandfather has died, Juan must fly it alone.

Juan, a Quichâe Indian boy from the village of Santiago Sacatepâequez, Guatemala, his brother, and his friends make a giant kite to fly on the Day of the Dead in memory of Juan's grandfather, who taught him how to make the traditional kites.

When a pesky mosquito interrupts their sleep, AndrTs and Juliana flee to the jungle to escape the sound and find help, but the animals they find--a monkey, a snake, and a crocodile--are all fast asleep, and when an owl takes them back home, they discover a frog on the windowsill who has the perfect solution.

When his friend's father is arrested and an army captain visits the school and asks them to write a paper on 'What my family does at night,' nine-year-old Pedro must make a difficult decision.

Presents a child's eye view of family life in two vastly different households--that of the little girl's father and grandmother, which is quiet and full of beautiful and expensive things, and that of her other grandmother's house where her cousin also lives, which is alive with many people dropping by.

Retells the Carib legend about the great flood, when Kaputano descended from Heaven to ask for help in building a great canoe to carry the Caribs and the animals while the earth was covered with water.

Following on the success of Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup and Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding is Jorge Argueta’s third book in our bilingual cooking poem series — Guacamole — with very cute, imaginative illustrations by Margarita Sada.Guacamole originated in Mexico with the Aztecs and has long been popular in North America, especially in recent years due to the many health benefits of avocados. This version of the recipe is easy to make, calling for just avocados, limes, cilantro and salt. 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 of making something delicious and healthy to eat for people you really love. A great book for families to enjoy together.

Product Description: Jimmy lives in a small Caribbean town where there's not a whole lot to do. Fortunately though, there is a boxing gym, and one day the owner, Don Apolinar, suggests that Jimmy start training. He also gives Jimmy a cardboard box full of books and newspaper clippings all about Muhammad Ali...read more

In a time when death does not yet exist, a nimble figure dreams up a way of keeping the world from being overpopulated by challenging the endlessly reproducing people and animals one by one to a rope-jumping contest with very high stakes.

Product Description: Every single morning of his life, Ivan does the same thing. He gets up. He eats breakfast. He sits at the table. In theory, he does his homework. But instead of studying, Ivan sits at the table and stares hypnotically out the window, mesmerized by the huge morning glory vine growing on the opposite wall...read more

Product Description: When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world, she discovers her own power and creates everything anew. The poem, written by Argentine poet Jorge Luján, comes from a culture saturated with magic, in which even the very young can make the world by reaching out and moving it...read more

Product Description: In this third book about Napí, the government is building a dam, forcing the Mazateca people to make a new village for themselves on inhospitable land. Napí recounts what she remembers of this time — traveling upriver to the place where they will resettle, the frighteningly beautiful jaguar she sees by the spring, the fierce fires that clear the land for farming, how her father has to walk all day to a far-off town so that he can buy food for the family...read more

When their father disappears one day, Nap¡ and her brother Nicl‚ raft upriver to search for him, and their quest turns into a magical journey of self-discovery as various animals offer help and advice.

Product Description: Nocturne: Dream Recipes is a unique bedtime book that hints at the magic inherent in dreaming.Twelve glow-in-the dark pictures present possible inspirations for a night in which the hidden world becomes visible. Just choose a dream from among the pictures and descriptions in the book, and then turn off the light to see a surprising glow-in-the-dark image...read more

Product Description: Oloyou the Cat, the very first creature that the God-child creates, is also the very first friend. God-child and Oloyou play together for hours on end, until one day the cat falls into the void and lands in the dark, featureless, sea kingdom of ferocious Okún Aró...read more

Product Description: Petit is puzzled. He’s a good boy when he plays with his dog. But he’s a bad boy when he pulls a girl’s hair. He can be very nice to his grandfather but terrible to pigeons. It’s good when he takes care of his toys, but very bad when he doesn’t want to share them...read more

Presents a child's eye view of family life in two vastly different households--that of the little girl's father and grandmother, which is quiet and full of beautiful and expensive things, and that of her other grandmother's house where her cousin also lives, which is alive with many people dropping by.

The song of the rooster brings up the sun but in due course the night comes to continue the cycle.

In a poetic tale, a boy crashes his bicycle into the sky and breaks off a few pieces, which he takes to school with surprising results, before his classmates repair the breach.

Product Description: When Stephen spots a beetle he takes off his shoe and raises his arm, ready to strike… but then he has second thoughts. He lays his head down on the ground and the beetle walks right up to him. At the last moment the beetle turns aside and each can go on with the day, having avoided the worst...read more