Arthur Dorros
1) Abuela
Author
Pub. Date
©1991
Language
English
Description
Flying over Manhattan Island, turning somersaults in midair. Gliding low to race the sailboats, spreading skirts for sails. Rosalba and her grandmother, her abuela, are taking an extrordinary trip - on Rosalba's imagination. "Tantos pájaros. So many birds." Rosalba says to herself, feeding the birds in the park with Abuela. "What if they picked me up and carried me high above the park? What if I could fly?" And fly she does, calling Abuela up to...
3) Isla
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
4) City chicken
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Egged on by the cat next door, a chicken from the city visits the country to see what she's been missing, and finds that it's not "all it's cracked up to be."
5) Papa and me
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A bilingual boy and his father, who only speaks Spanish, spend a day together.
6) Abuela
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Language
Español
Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
7) Ant cities
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Explains how ants live and work together to build and maintain their cities.