1st Grade

This playful bilingual riff on a nursery rhyme follows Maria and her llama through a lively school day.

Children, families, and libraries celebrate books in a bilingual invitation to read together.

A boy runs through the city trying to catch the paletero before his neighborhood treat is gone.

A girl who left the Dominican Republic as a baby rebuilds the place through family and neighborhood stories.

A teddy bear waits on a department-store shelf and longs for the child who will finally take him home.

Big Anthony learns the hard way that magical pasta is not something to experiment with lightly.

One quilt follows a family across generations, carrying memory, migration, and celebration.

During urban unrest, neighbors divided by prejudice discover shared fear, loss, and responsibility.

One ordinary evening turns surreal when frogs begin flying silently across town on their lily pads.

An innkeeper's daughter learns the high wire from a retired performer and finds the courage to cross it herself.