Alma Flor Ada, Author Atheneum Books $17.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-689-80631-5
In this handsomely designed companion volume to Where the Flame Trees Bloom, Ada once again draws upon her experiences growing up in post-war Cuba. In a short introduction, the author describes her hometown, Camaguey, as a ""city of contrasts""--dive
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Neil Waldman, Illustrator, Bernice Randall, Translator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31633-3
An elderly woman, Dona Josefa, sits in her hut, holding a gold coin. ``I must be the richest woman in the world,'' she says to herself. But unbeknownst to her, a thief, Juan, crouches at her window, watching and listening. When Dona Josefa leaves,...
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Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta. S&S/Atheneum, $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0088-7
Working with a potentially rich multicultural family story, Ada (Under the Royal Palms) and first-time author Zubizarreta instead deliver a timely but lifeless novel about a Mexican-American girl in California and her newly arrived Mexican cousin....
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Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta. S&S/Atheneum, $14.99 (125p) ISBN 978-1-442424-02-9
Ada and Zubizaretta’s (Dancing Home) uneven collaboration focuses on the deep bond between Mexican-American sixth-grader Amalia and her grandmother. When Amalia’s best friend, Martha, moves away from Chicago, Amalia’s Abuelita helps Amalia cope with
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Elivia Savadier, Illustrator , illus. by Elivia Savadier. S&S/Atheneum $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31819-1
Through this affectionate and revealing portrait of a bilingual girl's weekend visits to her two sets of grandparents, Ada (Where the Flame Trees Bloom) and Savadier (A Bedtime Story) prove that straddling two worlds can be a blessing rather...
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Elivia Savadier, Illustrator , illus. by Elivia Savadier. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-87409-3
In PW
's words, "Through this affectionate and revealing portrait of a bilingual girl's weekend visits to her two sets of grandparents, this book proves that straddling two worlds can be a blessing rather than a hardship." Ages 5-8.
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leonid Gore, Illustrator, Rosa Zubizarreta, Translator Atheneum Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31972-3
Gore's (The Pomegranate Seeds) acrylic and ink illustrations, spun like gossamer and lit with an inner radiance, lend their magic to a tale about a lonely princess. Confined to the castle and forbidden to play with the children outside the gates (who
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leslie Tryon, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-82581-1
Alma Flor Ada returns to the Hidden Forest a third time for With Love, Little Red Hen, illus. by Leslie Tryon, once again relaying her tale through correspondence from storybook characters. Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and others surprise...
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leslie Tryon, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-81608-6
In this sly picture book, Ada and Tryon make a return visit to the storybook backdrop of their Dear Peter Rabbit. While the sequel succeeds as a stand-alone, it offers double the fun in tandem with its predecessor. The exchange of letters among...
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leslie Tryon, Illustrator Atheneum Books $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-31850-4
Reminiscent of Janet and Allan Ahlberg's hugely successful The Jolly Postman , this clever picture book creates a fictitious flurry of correspondence between such familiar characters as Goldilocks (here given the surname McGregor, with a wink and a...
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leslie Tryon, Illustrator , illus. by Leslie Tryon. S&S/Aladdin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84452-2
The Three Little Pigs invite their storybook pals to their new, wolf-proof home for a housewarming party; the wolf, meanwhile hatches a plan to ambush the proceedings. PW
wrote, "While this sequel to Dear Peter Rabbit
succeeds as a stand-alone,
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leslie Tryon, Illustrator Atheneum Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82582-8
Abandoning the epistolary style of their first three books about the denizens of the Hidden Forest (Dear Peter Rabbit), Ada and Tryon use a newspaper format to tell several stories at once. Tryon alternates black-and-white newspaper pages with...
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Leslie Tryon, Illustrator , illus. by Leslie Tryon. S&S/ Aladdin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-87061-3
Alma Flor Ada returns to the Hidden Forest for a third time, once again relaying her tale through correspondence from storybook characters," noted PW
. Ages 5-8. (Dec.)
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Susan Gaber, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22832-2
Gaber's (Bit by Bit) radiant, clear-toned paintings give a quiet luminescence to this story of a solitary shepherd who lives with his flock among dry and dusty hills. One day, after a heavy rain, Jordi finds a small pond has formed near his house....
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Felipe Davalos, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-440-41531-2
In this bilingual folktale from Mexico, a lizard searches for the missing sun. Ages 5-8. (Apr.)
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Reg Cartwright, Illustrator Atheneum Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80775-6
Ada adds feminist panache to her retelling of the classic Spanish folktale. Mat as and his two older brothers wish to wed, but there is not a single unmarried girl in all their lush valley. The old woman who lives on the cliff by the sea has the...
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, K. Dyble Thompson, Illustrator, Ana M. Cerro, Translator Atheneum Books $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-31517-6
Armed with her new blue bookbag, Maria Isabel bravely faces her first day at a new school. But when she meets her new teacher, she is told there are already two other Marias in the class. ``Why don't we call you Mary instead?'' her teacher suggests,
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, Alma Flor ADA, Author, Vivi Escriva, Illustrator Espasa Calpe Mexicana, S.A. $15.95 (39p) ISBN 978-84-239-2583-4
Young readers will enjoy learning the alphabet as they associate the letters with the names of animals. Large, colorful illustrations and simple, clever text make this a fun and educational tool.
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Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, illus. by David Diaz. Charlesbridge, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-58089-383-1
The authors of Tales Our Abuelitas Told shape fictional portraits of 13 young people living in the U.S., who have diverse experiences and backgrounds but share a Latino heritage. The first-person narrative poems range from reflective to free-spirited
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Alma Flor Ada, Author, F. Isabel Campoy, Author, Alice Schertle, Author Rayo $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-688-16019-7
Passing along traditional rhymes to a new generation of children is the focus of Pio Peep! Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes, selected by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, English adaptations by Alice Schertle, illus. by Vivi Escriva. The 29
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Roger Drury, Author, Alma Flor Ada, Author, Kim Howard, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-440-41360-8
This traditional Spanish folktale about a special chicken who becomes a weather vane is told in Spanish on the left side of each festively colored double-page spread and in English on the right. Ages 5-9. (Sept.)
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