All Kinds of Kisses Written & Illustrated by Nancy Fafuri Little Brown and Company • 2012 • 32 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-316-12235-1 Ages 3-6 All babies love their mommies’ kisses. This is also true in this book, which celebrates a mother’s love as it introduces children to mommy and baby farm animals. Like the […]
Fat No More: A Teenager’s Victory Over Obesity Alberto Hidalgo-Robert Piñata Books • 2012 • 184 pages ISBN: 978-1558857452 Trade Paperback ($16.95) Ages 14 and up Alberto Hidalgo-Robert started out big—big baby, big toddler, big kid, big appetite. And he makes no bones about his focus on eating; no bones about the tantrums he threw […]
Guacamole: A Cooking Poem/Un poema para cocinar Jorge Argueta • Illustrated by Margarita Sada Translated by Elisa Amado Groundwood Books • 2012 • 32 pages ISBN: 978-1-55498-133-5 Hardcover ($18.95) Ages 4-8 This large-trimmed picture book offers a narrative poem in Spanish and English, complemented by a full-page artistic rendition of the story. It should be […]
My Big Sister/Mi hermana mayor Samuel Carabello • Illustrated by Thelma Muraida Piñata Books • 2012 • 32 pages ISBN: 978-1-55885-750-6 Hardcover ($16.95) Ages 3-8 A young boy’s parents work in a factory all day, so his older sister (age unknown in the story), takes care of him while they are away. She does so […]
Dancing with the Devil and Other Tales from Beyond/Bailando con el diablo y otros cuentos del Más Allá By René Saldaña Jr. Translated by Gabriela Baeza Ventura Piñata Books • 2012 • 176 pages ISBN: 978-1-55885-744-5 Trade Paperback ($9.95) Ages 11 and up Consisting of six tales, this collection of short stories uses contemporary settings […]
The Pregnancy Project By Gaby Rodriguez with Jenna Glazer Simon & Schuster • 2012 • 218 pages ISBN: 978-1-4424-4622-9 Hardcover ($17.99) Ages 14 and up It’s the mother of an adolescent girl’s worst fear—her daughter coming home pregnant. We worry about how we’ll manage with another child, how we’ll explain it to our friends and […]
Choke Diana López Scholastic • 2012 • 230 pages ISBN: 978-0-54-541822-5 Hardcover ($17.99) Ages 12 and up Windy is a lonely girl who doesn’t have many friends. Her parents won’t let her do the types of things that may help her to fit it in with the “cool girls” at school, like wear makeup and […]
Body Slammed! Ray Villareal Piñata Books • 2012 • 194 pages ISBN: 978-1-55885-749-0 Paperback ($11.95) Ages 12 and up In this sequel to the well received My Father, the Angel of Death, 16-year-old Jesse, like many adolescents, has a tendency to see what’s lacking in his life, and to overlook his blessings. Disappointed and angry […]
A Day without Sugar/Un día sin azúcar Diana de Anda • Illustrated by Janet Montecalvo Translated by Gabriela Baeza Ventura Piñata Books • 2012 • 32 pages ISBN: 978-1-55885-702-5 Hardcover ($17.95) Ages 5-8 Sofía and the Purple Dress/Sofía y el vestido morado Diana Gonzalez Bertrand • Illustrated by Lisa Fields Piñata Books • 2012 • […]