Buitrago, Jairo
Summary: "A quirky and uplifting guide to making new friends for kids 4 to 7 from a beloved, internationally renowned author. What's the best way to make friends? Toad has the most magnificent ideas! Sometimes they don't go according to plan... but that's okay. Eventually Toad tires of making new friends, but comes to a marvelous conclusion: sometimes being with yourself is a good way to pass the time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUIBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH BUIBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: A modern update on the classic fable of the lion and the mouse shares the relationship between two unlikely friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2019
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Summary: A little girl counts the things she sees as she and her father travel, sometimes on foot, sometimes on top of a train, and sometimes in other ways, stop while her father earns more money for the trip, and avoid soldiers and other dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUIBuitrago, Jairo
Summary: A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017