Pam Munoz Ryan

When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.

A very rare pitacohi bird falls in love with a swallow and plucks his colorful feathers to transform dry, barren San Juan Capistrano into a haven of flowers and flowing water, which the swallows can easily find when returning from their annual migration.

Un simple día en la playa es una experiencia fresca y maravillosa cuando un niño pequeño experimenta el encanto del océano a través de cada uno de sus cinco sentidos. Textos que riman en inglés y español e ilustraciones tipo fotografía se combinan en este encantador libro ilustrado bilingüe.

Pam Munoz Ryan sits down with Madeline Cohen to discuss her book, The Dreamer. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt.

Groups making up many different kinds of "families" introduce the numbers from one to ten and then by tens to one hundred.

When Annie moves to her new home, her grandmother shows Annie her special memory box, and Annie realizes that she can fill her own box with objects that will help bring back happy memories of the friends she misses so much.

Six stories, one from each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, about children growing up in Levittown, New York.

Just before her quinceañera, Solimar leaves her father's palace in the kingdom of San Gregorio to watch the migrating monarch butterflies who settle in the nearby mountains. When she sits among them, they soon settle on her cloak and give her a special gift to predict the future and the solemn duty to protect them. Then, while her father and her brother are away, a neighboring king invades and takes village and palace members hostage. Now Solimar...

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.