Bilingual - La velita de los cuentos/the Storytellers Candle

Bilingual - González, Lucía. tr. by author. illus. by Lulu Delacre. U.S.: Children’s Book Press. 2008. 32p. ISBN 978-0-89239-222-3. $16.95. Gr 2-5–The winter of 1929 feels colder to Hildamar and Santiago than it does to lifelong New Yorkers. Brother and sister have recently arrived from Puerto Rico, and they miss the sunny days and warm climate. As Three Kings Day approaches, they miss home even more. Then a storyteller and librarian named Pura Belpré visits their school. A fellow Puerto Rican, she tells the children that the library is for everyone and invites them and their families to attend a Three Kings Day celebration to prove it. It may be cold, but life suddenly feels restored to the young protagonists.