Jairo Buitrago
1) Walk with me
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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"A quirky and uplifting guide to making new friends for kids 4 to 7 from a beloved, internationally renowned author. What's the best way to make friends? Toad has the most magnificent ideas! Sometimes they don't go according to plan... but that's okay. Eventually Toad tires of making new friends, but comes to a marvelous conclusion: sometimes being with yourself is a good way to pass the time too. A hilarious and heartfelt read for kids who are starting...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Maybe your school has a playground, gym, computers, and a library. But at this school in a faraway mountain range, things are a little different. There's a blackboard, some chairs.and not much else. But with the help of an extraordinary teacher and a little imagination, anything is possible! The students in this spirited picture book spend their days drawing dinosaurs outdoors. They draw astounding, spectacular creatures that come to life before...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
unpaged : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Ana looks out the pet store window with the store's last remaining animals for sale: a dog, a hedgehog and a mouse. What are they waiting for? Ana remembers finding the dog and bringing him to the store as a puppy. She's watched as all the other dogs - the most charming, the most elegant, the strongest - have all gone off. Ana, too, has never left, except at nights when she closes the store and goes home to the modest apartment she shares with her...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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"A story about the heart-opening effect that taking care of a wounded creature has on a wounded boy, from acclaimed picture-book creators Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng. Adrián is always in trouble, at school and at home, while Santiago gets along quite well. But they are friends. When Adrián finds a wounded bird in an abandoned lot in the midst of the city, things begin to change. Taking care of the bird, learning all about it, discovering...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm
Language
English
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A little girl counts the things she sees as she and her father travel, sometimes on foot, sometimes on top of a train, and sometimes in other ways, stop while her father earns more money for the trip, and avoid soldiers and other dangers.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm
Language
English
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Inspired by Muhammad Ali, Jimmy starts training to become a boxer, and while his future looks bright, he decides leaving his small town for big matches might not be the best option for him.
10) Camino a casa
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Sensitive and intelligent treatment of a fatherless family.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we are today. As far back as 40,000 years ago (and maybe...
