Bilingual Books

This bilingual play introduces children to the life and work of Pura Belpre. Children will love seeing how she interacts with the characters from her tales.

Chivas are the colorful buses in Colombia. In this bilingual play, thanks to a dream and one of those famous buses, a girl named Lucy travels to different parts of Colombia in search of her grandfather.

The beloved folktale of Martina, the little roach has been adapted into this bilingual play.

Since the Fairy Godmother is busy, she sends one of the dwarfs from Snow White to help the Prince find his true love in this bilingual adaptation of Cinderella. Children will love the humor in this modern take on the classic.

In this bilingual play, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo talks about her life and career, especially her love of colors. It provides a wonderful way to introduce this cultural icon to children.

There are many stories about people coming to the United States, but this bilingual book tells the story of Lucas and his family who return to Mexico because Lucas's parents are undocumented. The young boy plays the trumpet and it's his music that...

Tomorrow is Super Hero Day at school and the principal tells all the students to come dressed as their favorite super hero. Bobby’s super hero is baseball player Roberto Clemente. He explains to his friends what made him so special.

A small, tired, and ill speckled hen that spends a rainy day flying in front of her window, arouses in Natalia nostalgia for her grandfather, who stayed in El Salvador. She then is determined to save the hen and moves heaven and earth to do so.

In this adaptation of a folk tale from Oaxaca, Mexico, young Juan dreams of having his own patch of land so he can plant corn, squash, and beans like his father and grandfather before him. Illustrations in richly hued earth tones show how Juan...

The author remembers the day in which the Spirit of the Corn visited the restaurant that his family owned in El Salvador. The narration is full of suspense and impregnated with the delicious scents that surrounded the kitchen and that remain intact in...

Completing their series of seasonal poems, Alarcón and Gonzalez pay tribute to winter with Northern California as their setting. From Mission Dolores to the Sierra Nevada, with its great sequoias, and Las posadas, this delightful collection explores...

In this whimsical and touching collection of 20 poems in English and Spanish, readers will find tomatoes that laugh, chiles that explode, and tortillas that applaud the sun. With vibrant illustrations as lyrical and expressive as the poems themselves,...

A poetic celebration of fall in Los Angeles--the city of angels--this book of bilingual poetry by an award-winning team invites the reader to appreciate the simple pleasures of everyday life: a visit to an outdoor market, the arrival of the ice cream...

Monchi is a sensitive young boy who enjoys writing poems and telling stories, yet when he is approached by a member of a local gang, he feels pressured to join. A tragic event and the support of a loving uncle make him realize that gang life is not for...