A rhyming alphabet book celebrates the lives of farm families and Hispanic American traditions through poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet. A Pura BelprT Honor Book. Reprint.

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In a folktale illustrated with Aztec-Mexican artwork, the sun falls asleep behind a rock, blanketing the world in darkness, and is discovered by a faithful lizard, who, with the help of the emperor, encourages the sun to wake up.

Busybody Senora Cardemino calls attention to an unusual plant growing in the streets, a plant quietly tended by young Pedro until the city's skyscrapers are covered in jungle growth.

A robin, butterfly, and squirrel try to help a mysterious animal find his identity.