La Familia Frijol Sale de Viaje (the Beans Take a Road Trip)

Leo is going to school for the first time and he's scared. His family helps him get ready, but Leo is worried. What if he doesn't like school? With his family's help, Leo learns that the most important thing to take with him to school is a positive attitude. This warm, comforting story will help ease first-day jitters.

The Bean family is building a house! But they have a problem. With a roof over their heads, they can't see the stars at night. Baby Bean suggests they go outside to see the stars. But the rest of this illogical bunch comes up with their own zany solution.

Gerald Dunwoody es mago, pero no especialmente bueno. Primero hizo saltar una fábrica por los aires y luego perdió el empleo. Cabe incluso la posibilidad de que no sea realmente un mago de tercer grado. Por suerte, un amigo con influencia le encuentra un puesto. Así que allá va, a la corte del rey Lional en New Ottosland, a ocupar el cargo de mago real. Sin embargo su ayudante, una pájara encantadora con un pasado misterioso, parece dudar. Pero no queda otra opción: o New Ottosland, o nada.

Winner at the 2012 International Latino Book Awards. A superbly illustrated original story about the power of loving yourself and finding happiness. This is the story of Anastasia, a cockroach who dreamed of being accepted and becoming famous and important like her distant relatives the Egyptian beetles, sacred insects that everybody treated like royalty. Although it may seem impossible to believe, in another life Anastasia was a princess, transformed by a wave of the magic wand of Fairy Brunhilda, who was determined to sow good wherever she went. But being a princess is not an easy task......

Los cuentos reunidos en Almas de rojo no brillan solo por sus intrincados mundos posibles, sino también por los personajes que habitan esos nuevos mundos, con nuevos desafíos y nuevos sueños, pero con los mismos viejos temores, demostrando que, aunque cambie el escenario, algunos diálogos permanecen.

Adnan Zakaria's family recently fled Syria and resettled in America. Adnan feels like a stranger in a strange land. He's lonely and homesick. The one thing that gives him comfort is his best friend's skateboard that he brought with him from Syria. As Adnan navigates his new community, he bonds with new friends at a local skatepark. But he also faces adversity in the form of local troublemaker Mike Proctor. After Adnan loses his precious skateboard one evening, he learns that Mike Proctor has it and won't give it up without a challenge. Will Adnan be able to out-skate his foe and reclaim his...