Children's Books for Hispanic Heritage Month | Metro Nashville Public Schools

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Animals, letters, and rhymes introduce the alphabet. Animales, letras y rimas introducen el abecedario.

2) Book fiesta!: celebrate Children's Day/Book Day = celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros : a bilingual picture book

Author

Mora, Pat

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Children read aloud in various settings to celebrate of El Día de los niños, or Children's Day, in this bilingual story. Includes facts about Mexico's annual celebration of children (April 30) and the book fiestas that are often included. Sumario en español: Los niños leen en voz alta en varias colocaciones para celebrar el Día de los niños, en esta historia bilingüe. Incluye datos sobre la celebración mexicana anual de nïnos y las fiestas...

3) The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

Author

Vamos, Samantha R

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When a farm maiden decides to get out her cazuela and cook arroz con leche, the farm animals join in to help in this playful cumulative tale that introduces Spanish words throughout. Inspired by the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built," this bilingual readalong will have kids merrily chanting along in English and Spanish as the animals all work together to create a delicious dish for the fiesta.

4) Chato's kitchen

Author

Soto, Gary

Series

Chato

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Book, eAudiobook, Kit

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To get the "ratoncitos," little mice who have moved into the barrio, to come to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.

5) Confetti girl

Author

López, Diana

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After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.

6) Cool salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States

Series

Fawcett Juniper books

7) Cuento de noche

Author

Aliaga, Roberto

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Every evening when a child goes to bed, the night sits at his bedside and reads him a story.

8) Dear Primo: a letter to my cousin

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Tonatiuh, Duncan

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.

9) Las divertidas aventuras de las letras: cuentos de la A a la Z

Author

López Ávila, Pilar

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10) The dreamer

Author

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

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Book, eAudiobook, Playaway

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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

11) Drum dream girl: how one girl's courage changed music

Author

Engle, Margarita

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.

12) Echo: a novel

Author

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

13) Fiesta babies

Author

Tafolla, Carmen

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Babies enjoy the colorful fiesta with singing, dancing, hugs, and kisses.

14) Funny bones: Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras

Author

Tonatiuh, Duncan

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Book, eAudiobook

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Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras--skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities--came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852-1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons, much to the amusement of the local population but not the politicians. He continued to draw cartoons throughout much of his life, but he is best known...

15) Green is a chile pepper: a book of colors

Author

Thong, Roseanne

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A little girl discovers all the bright colors in her Hispanic American neighborhood.

16) I lived on Butterfly Hill

Author

Agosín, Marjorie

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When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."

17) I'm just like my mom =: Me parezco tanto a mi mamá. I'm just like my dad = Me parezco tanto a mi papá

Author

Ramos, Jorge

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In two bilingual stories printed back to back, children reflect on how much they resemble their parents.

18) Just a minute: a trickster tale and counting book

Author

Morales, Yuyi

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In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.

19) Let's eat! =: !A comer!

Author

Mora, Pat

Series

My family/Mi familia (Pat Mora)

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Bilingual text describes a family as they sit down to a table filled with good food.

20) Little Roja Riding Hood

Author

Elya, Susan Middleton

Formats:

Book, Talking Book

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A rhyming twist on the classic fairy tale in which a little girl saves her grandmother from a wolf. Includes glossary of the Spanish words sprinkled throughout the text.