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40 pp.
| Little
| July, 2025
|
TradeISBN 9780316500036$18.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Lorena Alvarez Gómez.
What do you do when “your brain is buzzy, and it’s way too busy”? Call upon the “Marvelous Now,” a small blue creature who is the personification of mindfulness and peace. “Now” helps you calm down by reminding you to count backward, go for a walk, draw, etc. The reassuring rhymes gives readers effective strategies for “keeping your cool!”; the digital art contrasts gray clouds of stress with soothing, colorful flower trails.
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Lorena Alvarez Gómez.
“Me llamo La Chiva. That’s me! Beep, beep, beep!” But this chiva is not a goat, it’s a bus (helpfully explained in an author’s note) decorated with bright patterns that travels through a town in the Andes. Cheerful rhyming text follows the bus on its way to a market in town, including a stop for a flat tire that the passengers help fix. Painterly digital illustrations in vibrant colors feature a smiling bus, diverse community, and playfully exaggerated steep mountain roads. Also available in Spanish as ¡Me llamo la Chiva!: El colorido bus de los Andes.
32 pp.
| Abrams
| September, 2017
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4197-2321-6$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Lorena Alvarez Gómez.
Purple-haired "one-girl sensación" Carmen loves to perform for her family. She usually ignores her little brother--until she realizes how much Eduardo adores her. Although the conflict is tame, this is a lively romp about a budding diva told in direct, winking text sprinkled with Spanish. Reflecting Carmen's personality, the digital illustrations are a vivacious riot of bright colors and swirling lines.