Bøker av Jairo Buitrago

A marvelous picture book about the history of the world, told through the story of one small hill, from world renowned master storyteller Jairo Buitrago.Somewhere in this world there is a small hill, where three girls are taking off their shoes. But many thousands of years ago, a dinosaur saw a brilliant star falling as he stood on that same hill. The ice age comes and goes, castles are built and fall into ruin. The world grows and changes around the hill: trees are planted, a family seeks refuge, and houses are built below it. Now it’s time for the girls to put their shoes back on and go home.This beautiful book, with art from Hans Christian Andersen shortlisted illustrator Linda Wolfsgruber, provides us with a way to imagine the incredible things that happened in our world before we were around.An Aldana Libros Book, Greystone Kids

A marvelous picture book about the history of the world, told through the story of one small hill, from world renowned master storyteller Jairo Buitrago.Somewhere in this world there is a small hill, where three girls are taking off their shoes. But many thousands of years ago, a dinosaur saw a brilliant star falling as he stood on that same hill. The ice age comes and goes, castles are built and fall into ruin. The world grows and changes around the hill: trees are planted, a family seeks refuge, and houses are built below it. Now it’s time for the girls to put their shoes back on and go home.This beautiful book, with art from Hans Christian Andersen shortlisted illustrator Linda Wolfsgruber, provides us with a way to imagine the incredible things that happened in our world before we were around.An Aldana Libros Book, Greystone Kids

Funny, fresh and very modern, this update on the fable of the lion and the mouse is a marvelous tale of a relationship between two unlikely friends.One day, the mouse marches into the lion¿s den without an invitation. Before the lion can eat him for breakfast, the mouse begs for mercy. ¿If you let me go, I might be able to return the favor.¿ The lion laughs at the idea of such a small, insignificant creature helping him out ¿ until the next day when the mouse frees the lion from a hunter¿s trap.Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng, one of the great creative teams in picture books, have fun in this simple and never-didactic story about how it¿s possible to get along through negotiation, acceptance and learning to put up with a friend¿s eccentricities. You can be good to one another not because you expect anything in return but just because you are friends.Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2>With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.6Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

A simple, imaginative story depicting the complex emotional reality of a girl whose father no longer lives at home. The girl conjures up an imaginary companion ¿ a lion ¿ who will join her on the long walk home from school. He will help her to pick up her baby brother from daycare and shop at the store (which has cut off the family¿s credit), and he¿ll keep her company all along the way until she is safely home. He will always come back when she needs him, unlike her father whom she sees only in a photograph ¿ a photograph in which he clearly resembles a lion.Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

"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 are today. As far back as 40,000 years ago (and maybe even earlier) people began drawing pictures on cave walls. And a bit later, they carved images onto stones. Some pictures are of humans, usually drawn as stick figures, but most are of animals. We don't know their purpose, though in some cases, evidence seems to suggest they were used for storytelling. But when we look at these pictures, we can't help but admire the extraordinary talent of the first artists. They aren't just scratches on the wall. They are great art. In this book of few words, we follow a young girl who notices everything that happens around her as her people search for a cave to shelter for the winter. And we can believe that she feels the absolute necessity to draw what she has seen and to tell stories."--

A loving, empowering story about a girl who finds a way to cope with change.

From an internationally renowned picture book team: Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng have collaborated on many award-winning picture books, including Two White Rabbits and Walk with Me. Inspires imagination and creativity: shows kids all the wonderful possibilities they can create while drawing. Surprise dinosaurs!: young readers will be as surprised as the characters in the book by the dinosaurs the characters encounterFeatures a variety of exciting dinosaurs, a notable obsession among young children. Celebrates the positive impact of teachers: tells the story of a young girl with an extraordinary teacher, who fosters her students' imaginations through drawing outdoors.Published simultaneously in English and Spanish editions.An Aldana Libros Book: developed by renowned children's publisher Patricia Aldana to bring outstanding books to the English-speaking market by international authors and illustrators who want to communicate their own cultural realities.

LEVELINGGuided Reading Level: TCommon Core State StandardsRL.2.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9W.2.1,3,5,6SL.2.1,1a,1b,1c,2,3,4,5,6L.2.1,1a,1b,1c,1d,1e,1f,2,2a,2b,2c,2d,2e,4,4a,4b,4c,4e,5,5a,5b,6