![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sara Palacios is the recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match and the illustrator of several other picture books, including The Flying Girl. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl Dancing Hands and The Flying Girl. ![]() Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky With a Star in My Hand The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner and The Lightning Dreamer. The little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his special songs to sell all kinds of fruit: mango, limón, naranja, piña, and more! Even when they’re apart, grandfather and granddaughter can share rhymes between their countries like un abrazo-a hug-made of words carried on letters that soar across the distance like songbirds. When we visit mi abuelo, I help him sellĪs we walk, our footsteps like drumbeats, But what is A Song of Frutas? Let’s let the publisher take a crack at that one:įrom Pura Belpré Award–winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a pregonero-a singing street vendor in Cuba-and helping him sell his frutas. ![]()
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