Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories by Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Magaly Morales Primary Abrams 40 pp. g 9/21 978-1-4197-4941-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-498-9 $15.54 “Pura Belpré always knew that many stories worth telling aren’t in books” is the lingering message of this picture-book biography....
Miosotis Flores Never Forgets by Hilda Eunice Burgos Intermediate, Middle School Tu/Lee & Low 304 pp. g 10/21 978-1-64379-065-7 $18.95 Achievement runs in twelve-year-old Miosotis’s Dominican family: her father is a physics professor, her brother Jacinto is a track star and straight-A student, and her sister Amarilis attends a prestigious...
Bright Star by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4328-4 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4784-8 $18.99 Morales’s (Dreamers, rev. 9/18) latest sensitive and evocative picture book opens with a wide-eyed whitetail fawn curled up in a creosote bush, guilelessly peeking up at the reader....
My Two Border Towns by David Bowles; illus. by Erika Meza Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. g 8/21 978-0-593-11104-8 $17.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-593-32507-0 $17.99 A sleepy boy is nudged awake by his father for a routine Saturday trip, heading across the U.S.–Mexico border to “el Otro Lado.” As they reach the...