Category: fiction

Playground
by Mies van Hout (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Two friends take a fun, fantastical trip to the playground and you can follow along by tracing the maze on each page. Climb through the trees, find the way across the crocodile-infested river, and bushwhack through the blackberries, feel your way through the dark cave, escape from the monster, and slide into safety on your way to the jungle gym.

Snippet: First, we’ll run through the dunes.
Which path should we take?

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Luis Paints the World
by Terry Farish (Author) and Oliver Dominguez (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Luis wishes Nico wasn’t leaving for the Army. To show Nico he doesn’t need to go, Luis begins a mural on the alleyway wall. Their house, the river, the Parque de las Ardillas—it’s the world, all right there.

Snippet: Luis brings his paint and brush from the shed. He paints an orange orange on the alleyway wall. Then another and another.

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