Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book, American Library Association (ALA) br Skipping Stones Honor Award, Skipping Stones Magazine When the janitors' union strikes for better wages, Carlitos discovers a way to help his mother in this powerful bilingual picture book. Cuando el sindicato de conserjes organiza una huelga para exigir mejores salarios, Carlitos descubre una manera en que le puede ayudar a su madre en este poderoso libro ilustrado bilingüe. Carlitos's mother is a janitor. Every night, he sleeps while his mother cleans one of the skyscrapers in downtown L.A. When she comes home, she waves Carlitos off to school before she goes to sleep. On ..

Notable Children's Book, Smithsonian Pink goats, blue rabbits, and purple cats--oh my! Manuel has the determination and imagination to create them all! Cabras rosas, conejos azules y gatos morados-- que maravilla! Manuel tiene las ganas e imaginación para crearlo todo! Between their work growing blue corn and green alfalfa, Manuel and his father carve small wooden animals to sell at the fiestas in Oaxaca, Mexico. Manuel's imagination overflows with goats as pink as blossoming bougainvillea, purple cats with corn-yellow spots, and many more completely unique animals. When he tells his father how he longs to sculpt creatures in this new style, his father only ..

South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, Highly Commended Book Title, South Asia National Outreach Consortium br Green Earth Book Award Honor Book, The Nature Generation In this empowering picture book about arts, activism, and the environment, Kinga and his classmates create a dance to honor the cranes of Bhutan and raise awareness of their plight. Every year, Kinga and his classmates wait for the black-necked cranes to return to the kingdom of Bhutan. The birds fly south over the highest mountains in the world to winter in the valley where Kinga lives, deep in the Himalayas. The cranes have been visiting the valley since ancient tim ..

South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, Highly Commended Book Title, South Asia National Outreach Consortium br Green Earth Book Award Honor Book, The Nature Generation In this empowering picture book about arts, activism, and the environment, Kinga and his classmates create a dance to honor the cranes of Bhutan and raise awareness of their plight. Every year, Kinga and his classmates wait for the black-necked cranes to return to the kingdom of Bhutan. The birds fly south over the highest mountains in the world to winter in the valley where Kinga lives, deep in the Himalayas. The cranes have been visiting the valley since ancient tim ..

Mr. Goethe's Garden tells the story of a unique friendship between an inquisitive young girl, Irena, and her neighbor--the elderly, world-famous playwright, artist and natural scientist, Johann von Goethe. Irena visits Mr. Goethe in his well-tended garden where he teaches her to draw and to observe the world of nature in a special way. Set in the 1830s, this book was inspired by Goethe's life and his botanical treatise The Metamorphosis of the Plant . Exquisitely sensitive illustrations and elegant text reveal the intricate wonders of the plant kingdom. As the bonds of friendship deepen between Irena and her wise neighbor, she experiences a new way of seeing ..