Jairo Buitrago

Elisa Amado

Rafael Yockteng

In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey. As many thousands of people, especially children, in Mexico and Central America continue to make the arduous journey to the U.S. border in search of a better life, this is an important book that shows a young migrant’s perspective.

Two White Rabbits

Wounded Falcons

Funny, fresh and very modern, this update on the fable of the lion and the mouse is a marvelous tale of a relationship between two unlikely friends. One day, the mouse marches into the lion's den without an invitation. Before the lion can eat him for breakfast, the mouse begs for mercy. "If you let me go, I might be able to return the favor." The lion laughs at the idea of such a small, insignificant creature helping him out ... until the next day when the mouse frees the lion from a hunter's trap. Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng, one of the great creative teams in picture books, have fun in this simple and never-didactic story about how it's possible to get along through negotiation, acceptance and learning to put up with a friend's eccentricities. You can be good to one another not because you expect anything in return but just because you are friends. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

Lion and Mouse

Jimmy lives in a small Caribbean town where there's not a whole lot to do. Fortunately though, there is a boxing gym, and one day the owner, Don Apolinar, suggests that Jimmy start training. He also gives Jimmy a cardboard box full of books and newspaper clippings all about Muhammad Ali. Jimmy reads and re-reads as he never has before. He is swept with admiration for Ali who said, "I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was." He starts to feel good, realizing that he doesn't need to have a lot of fancy stuff, that he's a pretty good boxer himself, and that he can look forward to the future. But by the time Don Apolinar has to leave for the big city, Jimmy realizes that he can have a great life running the gym, creating a library, dancing and boxing . . . right where he is. Jairo Buitrago's simple yet inspiring story is complemented by Rafael Yockteng's funny, expressive illustrations, making this a book that will speak to many young readers. The Spanish edition, Jimmy, el m s grande , was recently named one of "Los mejores libros del a o" (Best Books of the Year) by Venezuela's Banco del Libro.

Jimmy the Greatest!

Funny, fresh and very modern, this update on the fable of the lion and the mouse is a marvelous tale of a relationship between two unlikely friends. One day, the mouse marches into the lion’s den without an invitation. Before the lion can eat him for breakfast, the mouse begs for mercy. “If you let me go, I might be able to return the favor.” The lion laughs at the idea of such a small, insignificant creature helping him out ... until the next day when the mouse frees the lion from a hunter’s trap. Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng, one of the great creative teams in picture books, have fun in this simple and never-didactic story about how it’s possible to get along through negotiation, acceptance and learning to put up with a friend’s eccentricities. You can be good to one another not because you expect anything in return but just because you are friends. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

A simple, imaginative story depicting the complex emotional reality of a girl whose father no longer lives at home. The girl conjures up an imaginary companion — a lion — who will join her on the long walk home from school. He will help her to pick up her baby brother from daycare and shop at the store (which has cut off the family’s credit), and he’ll keep her company all along the way until she is safely home. He will always come back when she needs him, unlike her father whom she sees only in a photograph — a photograph in which he clearly resembles a lion.

Walk with Me

Manuel Monroy

En una ciudad grande, tan grande que todos sus habitantes parecen bichitos, se abre una ventana en forma de una página que al pasar nos cuenta historias. Allí vemos al niño que siempre heredaba la ropa de sus hermanos pero en abril, para su cumpleaños, recibe unos calcetines nuevos. Allá, Angélica lleva a su pato al cine, hasta que un día alguien con una linterna le dice que no pueden estar ahí. Y así, página a página, conocemos los acontecimientos grandes y pequeños de las personas de esa ciudad, a veces alegres, a veces tristes, como es la vida. Las ilustraciones de Manuel Monroy le agregan densidad y profundidad a las instantáneas que Jairo Buitrago eligió mostrarnos y que le dan cuerpo a un ejercicio de observación del que nace la empatía.

Unas personas

"Siete cuervos & ocho cuentos reúne, como bien lo dice su título, ocho cuentos en los que los niños son protagonistas: niños inteligentes; uno que otro travieso, uno que otro pícaro, uno que otro desobediente; y si hay una característica común a todos es la ingenuidad. Buitrago tiene la virtud de comprender muy bien el mundo de los niños y de hablarles de igual a igual. Los temores, las alegrías, las tremenduras de los niños son bien conocidas por el autor y prueba de esto son sus textos, donde plasma una representación de la infancia muy original y muy cercana a la realidad. Estos cuentos sobre lo cotidiano son muy humorísticos y habrá más de un lector que los termine con una sonrisa. Las ilustraciones de Mayorga, de trazo libre y, por tanto, muy expresivas, nos muestran los distintos escenarios y personajes que conforman ese universo creado por Buitrago. Es un libro absolutamente maravilloso, ojalá lo lean muchos niños."--Publisher's description.

Siete cuervos & ocho cuentos

Un álbum ilustrado donde la fantasía encubre la nostalgia y aborda, con imaginación y ternura, un tema difícil: la ausencia del padre. Una niña pequeña pide a un león que la acompañe en su vida diaria, y al hacerlo compartirá con ella pobreza, tareas domésticas y la ausencia del padre. El león imaginario, símbolo de fuerza y protección dará a la pequeña esa compañía paterna.

Camino a casa

A space adventure that culminates in discovering art painted millennia before by a human being just like our hero.

Jairo Buitrago

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