Ridgway Public Library

A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.

A Cuban girl transforms her long and unruly hair into a garden. One night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had "grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair. As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside...

Introduces children to the concept of space orientation: up, down, over, under, near, far, inside, outside, etc.

Una familia constru A family builds an adobe house in the Southwest desert.

Mamita explains how bread is created in a song sung in both English and Spanish.

This book presents words, in English and Spanish, that name clothes

After a visit to a Chinese restaurant, Carlos decides to dig a hole to China so he can have egg rolls and chow mein instead of rice and beans and tortillas.

Before she hatches from her egg, a baby chick takes quite a trip around the farm - with her mother and other animals in pursuit.

A young girl wishes her family could be more like her friends' families and subconsiously blames her abuela and her yellow handkerchief, but she slowly grows to appreciate and love the language and culture the handkerchief represents.