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Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids, Greystone Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUI

Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUI

Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BUI

Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: "Somewhere in this world there is a small hill, where three girls are taking off their shoes. But many thousands of years ago, a dinosaur saw a brilliant star falling as he stood on that same hill. The ice age comes and goes, castles are built and fall into ruin. The world grows and changes around the hill: trees are planted, a family seeks refuge, and houses are built below it. Now it's time...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024

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Buitrago, Jairo.

Summary: Don Apolinar urges Jimmy, who lives in a small Caribbean town where there is not much to do, to start training at the boxing gym and to read about Muhammad Ali. Jimmy begins to realize that he is a good boxer and finds that he would be happy running the gym and improving his hometown.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult Buitrago

Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: A modern update on the classic fable of the lion and the mouse shares the relationship between two unlikely friends.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2019

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Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUI

Buitrago, Jairo

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUI

Yockteng, Rafael

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOC

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