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Arroz con leche

2010

by Jorge Argueta

Provides a poetic recipe for rice pudding that not only offers instructions for making the treat but highlights the ways in which it can delight all the senses

Level up / Paso de nivel

2012

by Gwendolyn Zepeda and Pablo Torrecilla

David is always about to reach a new level of a video game when his friends invite him to play outside, but while the game is broken, he discovers that learning to skateboard or play basketball can be like "leveling up" in real life

Let’s eat! / ¡A comer!

2008

by Pat Mora and Maribel Suárez

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

How many donkeys?

2009

by Margaret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel. Taibah

When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great consternation. Includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration, as well as the numerals one through ten, and a note on the origins and other versions of the story.

Hit it, hit it, hit it / Dale, dale, dale

2013

by René Saldaña and Carolyn Dee Flores

"In this bilingual counting picture book, a young boy counts to fourteen in anticipation of his birthday party: one piñata filled with candy; two hours until the party; three tables set for all of the guests, etc."--|cProvided by publisher

Charlie and the Blanket Toss

2014

by Tricia Brown and Sarah Martinsen

Charlie, an Inupiat boy, is excited about the upcoming festival to celebrate a successful whale hunt, but afraid when he thinks this might be the year he takes part in the traditional blanket toss. Includes glossary and notes on Inupiat whaling traditions.

Sopa de frijoles

2009

by Jorge Argueta

A recipe, in poem form, for young and old to prepare a pot of tummy-filling bean soup

A school girl’s hero

2010

by Umm Aamina and Kulthum Burgess

The Christmas coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood

2011

by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and Ellen Beier

Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

Pancho Rabbit and the coyote