¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!

Created on April 29, 2021, 8:58 am

Last Updated May 3, 2021, 10:10 am

El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros (Children's Day/Book Day), or Día, is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates each year on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros, o Día, es una celebración cotidiana de los niños, las familias y la lectura que culmina cada año el 30 de abril. La celebración enfatiza la importancia de la alfabetización para niños de todos los orígenes lingüísticos y culturales.

1) Prairie lotus

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Notes

10-12 years

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Paperback

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In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.

2) Why am I me?

Author

Britt, Paige

Notes

4-8 years

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In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.

3) We've got the whole world in our hands =: Tenemos el mundo entero en las manos

Author

López, Rafael

Notes

3-5 years/años

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Publisher Annotation: Award-winning illustrator Rafael L?pez brings new life with his adaptation of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," saluting the lives of all young people. The rhythmic verse and repetitive emphasis on "we" and "our" encourages inclusive communities and the celebration of unity and diverse friendships all around the world.

4) The black book of colors

Author

Cottin, Menena

Notes

5-10 years

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This title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers.

5) Había una vez mexicanas que hicieron historia (Mexicanas 1)

Author

Fernández, Pedro J

Series

Mexicanas

Notes

10+ años

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Aguza el oído y sabrás los secretos de las mujeres más talentosas y temerarias, curiosas, rebeldes y emprendedoras de México, que se atrevieron a romper el molde.

Desobedecer puede ser una buena idea. Ser ordenada siempre es lindo y poderoso, claro, pero salirse del huacal vuelve interesantes las cosas cuando los mandatos son aburridos, cuando no nos dejan movernos a nuestras anchas, sobre todo cuando dañan nuestra alma.

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6) stories for boys who dare to be different true tal

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7) my first book of sign language

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8) We are water protectors

Author

Lindstrom, Carole

Notes

3-6 years

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook, Hardback, Kindle, RCC New - Book

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Publisher Annotation: Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption―a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.

9) We sang you home =: Ka kîweh nikâmôstamâtinân

Author

Van Camp, Richard

Notes

0-2 years

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A pair of parents celebrate their new baby.

10) Milo imagines the world

Author

de la Peña, Matt

Notes

4-8 years

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While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.

11) Watercress

Author

Wang, Andrea

Notes

4-8 years

Formats:

Book, eBook, Hardback, Kindle

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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents. Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot something growing in a ditch by the side of the road... watercress! With an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail-covered...

12) A charmed life =: Una vida con suerte

Author

Barbieri, Gladys Elizabeth

Notes

4-8 years/años

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Felicia accompanies her mom to the big house where she works cleaning. Felica admires the house and which she could live in a house as big and beautiful.

13) La frontera, el viaje con papá =: My journey with papa

Author

Mills, Deborah

Notes

6-9 años

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Learn about one families struggles to get across the Mexican border.

14) Je suis petite, moi? =: Am I small?

Author

Winterberg, Philipp

Notes

4-7 years

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"Am I small?"--Tamia is not sure and keeps asking various animals that she meets on her journey. Eventually she finds the surprising answer.

15) Mulan: a story in English and Chinese

Author

Li, Jian

Notes

4-8 years

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"There was once an extraordinary girl who was as beautiful as she was brave. She knew how to read and write and sew. She loved to ride horses and shoot her bow and arrows. But it was the love for her family and her father that made her into a great soldier."--Page 4 of cover.