El amable libro de las actividades

Jana tiene casi diez años y vive con su abuelo. De un tiempo para acá siente como si tuviera piedras de diferentes tamaños presionando su cabeza. Incluso llegó a creer que le crecerían piedras en lugar de cabello. Ahora eso ya no le preocupa mucho porque, luego de sus visitas al hospital, no le queda ni un solo pelito en la cabeza. Con el apoyo de su abuelo y con mucho valor, Jana enfrenta su situación y tiene la esperanza de que la molesta pesadez se vaya para siempre.

Six-year-old Ana looks forward to growing older and being allowed more responsibility in making the tamales for the family's Christmas celebrations.

An Ethiopian boy called Delke writes a letter to a class of Puerto Rican children in which he describes his country and sends them pictures of African animals with rhyming captions.

All monsters cry, tremble, are afraid of the dark, and have fears themselves that cause them to hide under children s beds or closets at night. The best thing to do is give them a hug and tell them a bedtime story to calm down. An ideal book for little ones afraid of bedtime, this story will cause children to burst with laughter and begin to see that the monsters are friendly, and probably as scared as they are."