On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Home was no longer safe, and Mexico was welcoming refugees by the thousands. Each child packed a suitcase and boarded the&nbsp;Mexique, expecting to return home in a few months. This was just a short trip, an extra-long summer vacation, they thought. But the war did not end in a few months, and the children stayed, waiting and wondering, in Mexico. When the war finally ended, a dictator--the Fascist Francisco Franco--ruled Spain. Home was even more dangerous than before.&nbsp; This moving book invites readers onto the&nbsp;Mexique&nbsp;with the "children of Morelia," many of whom never returned to Spain during Franco's almost forty-year regime. Poignant and poetically told,&nbsp;Mexique&nbsp;opens important conversations about hope, resilience, and the lives of displaced people in the past and today.

Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War (Stories from Latin America (SLA))

Children's Books

Ferrada, María José

Literature & Fiction

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

On September 11, 1973, a military coup plunged Chile into seventeen long years of dictatorial rule. Only the return of democracy could reveal the full horrors of Augusto Pinochet's regime: 3,197 people dead or disappeared--including thirty-four children under the age of fourteen. This book is a stirring memorial to those victims and to the cost of extremism. Thirty-four poems--one for each child lost--consider the diverse hopes of these fragile young lives. From Alicia to Jaime, Héctor to Paola, Soledad to Rafael, they were brave and creative, thoughtful and strong. In these pages, some children watch for the changing seasons. Some listen for new sounds on rainy afternoons. And some can't wait for their next birthday. Featuring gentle, emotive poems and soft, pastel-toned illustrations,&nbsp;Niños&nbsp;is an unforgettable tribute to the children of Pinochet's Chile and all those threatened by political violence across the world. &nbsp;

Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile (Stories from Latin America (SLA))

History

Introduce budding scientists to a fun STEM topic -- birds and their feathers! This interactive board book features riddles about different birds, and images that transform as you turn the page to reveal the answer. Includes fact-packed educational notes about birds, feathers and what we can learn from them.

Tweet! (Slide-and-See Nature)

Animals

BAREFOOT BOOKS+

Fish dream of becoming Olympic swimmers…Olympic swimmers dream that they’re fish.\nIt’s a very unlikely dream.\nSwimmers uses humor and poetry to show the reader how a page can be a deep, blue sea or an Olympic swimming pool and blurs the line between what is and isn’t possible. Filled with quirky text and amusing illustrations of sturgeons in swimwear and tuna taking the gold, Swimmers merges the worlds of fish and people in this English-language translation of an entirely original book.\nAbout the PublisherTapioca Stories, a New York-based publishing house with Latin American soul, introduces young English readers to the finest Latin American children's books, originally written in Spanish and Portuguese.

Swimmers

Humor

Tapioca Stories

Every morning, Ms. Marta goes out to check that the world is how it should be: her friends sitting on a terrace playing cards, the beach where it always is, children playing in the playground.\nWith illustrations full of color and colorful characters, My Neighborhood, shows the reader the world through the eyes of elderly Ms. Marta and demonstrates the wonder of diversity that surrounds us throughout our lives. The poignant message is balanced with simple text and detail-rich, illustrations full of comical visual surprises. The artwork combines watercolors, and photo-transfer collage, for a fun medley of people and faces in the neighborhood―visiting the school, beach, hair salon, clinic, and more.\nMy Neighborhood is a celebration of community that highlights the beauty of its everyday rhythms and routines, as well as offering a heartwarming meditation on what it means to grow old when surrounded by loving friends and neighbors.\nAbout the PublisherTapioca Stories, a New York-based publishing house with Latin American soul, introduces young English readers to the finest Latin American children's books, originally written in Spanish and Portuguese.

My Neighborhood

Growing Up & Facts of Life

A World Literature Today Notable Translation of the Year and a San Francisco Chronicle and Southwest Review Best Book of the Year "A dreamscape of a book. I adored this compelling, wise, and utterly unique coming-of-age tale." --Tara Conklin For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D's life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father's trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies against the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As father and daughter trek from town to town in their old Renault, M's memories and thoughts become tied to a language of rural commerce, philosophy, the cosmos, hardware products, and ghosts. M, in her innocence, barely notices the rising tensions and precarious nature of their work until she and her father connect with an enigmatic photographer, E, whose presence threatens to upend the unusual life they've created. María José Ferrada expertly captures a vanishing way of life and a father-daughter relationship on the brink of irreversible change. At once nostalgic, dangerous, sharply funny, and full of delight and wonder, How to Order the Universe is a richly imaginative debut and a rare work of magic and originality.

How to Order the Universe

Literary

Tin House Books

A Washington Post and Ms. Magazine Best Book of December\n“This book is a gift.” ―Megan McDowell 
From the award-winning author of How to Order the Universe, María José Ferrada beautifully details the life and lessons of an unconventional man and the boy who loves him. 
After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn’t take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision: to make the billboard his new home. 
Twelve-year-old Miguel is enchanted by his uncle’s unusual living arrangement, but the neighborhood is buzzing with gossip, declaring Ramón a madman bringing shame to the community. As he visits his uncle in a perch above it all, Miguel comes to see a different perspective, and finds himself wondering what he believes―has his uncle lost his mind, as everyone says? Is madness―and the need for freedom―contagious? Or is Ramón the only one who can see things as they really are, finding a deeper meaning in a life they can’t understand from the ground? 
When a local boy disappears, tensions erupt and forgotten memories come to the surface. And Miguel, no longer perched in the billboard with his uncle, witnesses the reality on the ground: a society that, in the name of peace, is not afraid to use violence.With sharp humor and a deep understanding of a child’s mind, How to Turn Into a Bird is a powerful tale of coming of age, loss of innocence, and shifting perspectives that asks us: how far outside of our lives must we go to really see things clearly?

How to Turn Into a Bird

Humor & Satire

Espantamiedos (Spanish Edition)

Letelier, Karina

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Planeta Publishing

El 27 de mayo de 1937, un grupo formado por 456 niños y niñas embarcaron en el trasatlántico Mexique, que zarpó desde Burdeos rumbo a México. Estaba previsto que permanecieran allí durante tres o cuatro meses, pero no contaban con la derrota republicana ni con el inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, dos episodios que transformaron su exilio en definitivo. Los «niños de Morelia» nunca regresaron a su tierra natal, y si lo hicieron, varias décadas más tarde, se encontraron con un país, unos hermanos y unos paisajes que ya no reconocían. Este libro cuenta la historia de un barco, a sabiendas de que no existe registro de todos aquellos que cada día cruzan el océano, trasladando a seres humanos que tienen derecho a una vida digna sin que la tierra se deshaga bajo sus pies.

Mexique, el nombre del barco

Libros del Zorro Rojo

Futuro (Spanish Edition)

Science, Nature & How It Works

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