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
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOCBuitrago, 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 BUIBuitrago, 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 BUIBuitrago, 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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wld Cult BuitragoBuitrago, 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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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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUIBuitrago, 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