Cuando un niño ve lo que pasa porque no siguío las instrucciones de su padre, trata de hacer correciones. When he sees the results of not following his father's instructions on the proper way to plant corn, a young boy tries to make things right.

A retelling of the familiar fairy tale in which the Little Red Hen, unable to get her friends to help her with her bread-making project, refuses to share the fruits of her labor.

"This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in contemporary Latin-American fiction. Readers will meet a Mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a man's lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws...

A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author features translations, many of them specially commissioned, of almost six hundred works.

A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother. Presented in English and Spanish.

Offers a selection of traditional children's songs, chants, and rhymes from a variety of Latin American countries, with lyrics in Spanish and English translation, and music arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.

A young black boy spends an adventurous day in the city when it snows.

Maya, who lives in the dusty desert, opens her eyes wide to find the colors in her world, from Papi's black hair and Mami's orange and purple flowers to Maya's red swing set and the fiery pink sunset.

A bilingual folk tale from Nicaragua about a well-meaning man who can't figure out how to make changes in his life until his niece, Ambrosia, show him how.