Author: Anastasia Suen

Anastasia Suen is the author (& ghostwriter) of 450+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose books for children, teens, and adults: board books, picture books, beginning readers, early chapter books, middle grade books, young adult books, and books for adults.
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One Blue Gnu

One Blue Gnu
by Danna Smith (Author) and Ana Zurita (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: When a box of cell phones is accidentally delivered to the zoo, one blue gnu quickly calls two white sheep, who plan a party — beep beep beep! News of the party spreads to three orange apes, four red pandas and five green ducks… up until ten purple birds learn it’s party time! But oh no — who invited tiger, and who will he call on his new phone? Count from one to ten and down again!

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Four red pandas in the sun
agree a party would be fun.

See the book trailer.

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Pura’s Cuentos

Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
by Annette Bay Pimentel (Author) and Magaly Morales (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Pura’s abuela always has a cuento to share. She crows ¡Qui-qui-ri-quí! for Señor Gallo, booms Borom, Borom for Señor Zapo, and tells of a beautiful cockroach who loves a mouse. Pura clings to these stories like coquíes cling to green leaves.

When Pura grows up and moves from Puerto Rico to Harlem, she gets a job at the library, where she is surrounded by stories–but they’re only in English. Where is Señor Gallo? Where is Pérez the mouse? Where is Puerto Rico on these shelves? She decides to tell children the tales of her homeland in English and in Spanish.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

The author, Annette Bay Pimentel, is one of my former students.
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