Beginning Readers

When a bird overhears a lady ordering 12 rotisserie chickens for next Sunday, he knows he must swing into action. He organizes a rescue, but how will he pull it off if chickens cannot fly? Are they doomed?

This delightful beginning reader, told in the first person, is about the protagonist's brother who is crazy about dinosaurs. One day he tells her that he is going to turn into one. Incredulous from the start, later on, she cannot believe what she sees!

As the Day of the Dead approaches, Lupita and her Uncle Urbano welcome the monarch butterflies, which Uncle Urbano has told his niece are the souls of their beloved deceased relatives. This year, however, the holiday will feel quite different for Lupita...

Tomas, the blue monkey, is so in love with Esmeralda, the green monkey, that he thinks he has to do amazing feats to win her heart. After a while, he realizes he should just be himself.

Grandpa has a cold and the only thing to cure him is a tea made from dragon tears. Manu finds a dragon, but his sad stories only make the dragon laugh. Luckily, just when Manu has given up, the dragon laughs until he cries!

Wizard Van Dongen wants to move. He does some magic, brings his house to life, and asks it to find a better location. When the house finds out that it will become inanimate afterwards, it decides to take off running.

In prehistoric times, birds faced possible extinction because predators hunted their eggs. The birds called a general assembly to address the situation, but everything they tried failed. A mated pair of birds eventually managed to come up with an...

Niko tries to get spiders to bite him to turn him into Spiderman. When he finds a variety that he does not know is poisonous, it's a good thing a real super hero is around to save him from harm's way.