Frank Carlson Library

The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.

Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...

Ten-year-old Pablo falls out of his father's old truck on the way to pick melons in Arizona, but with the help of a coyote pup, he makes it across the border.

Poems in Spanish and English describe the author's boyhood as a refugee from rural El Salvador living in San Francisco, where he had to cope with a new language, a new culture, and a very different way of life.

The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas.

La gata de un niñito se le ha perdido, y por eso se lanza a una travesía fantástica a través del mundo en busca de su mascota. En el camino, conoce a mucha gente interesante y ve a varios miembros muy hermosos de la familia de los gatos, incluidos leones, tigres y panteras. Pero una y otra vez tiene que decir, "¡Esta no es mi gata!", hasta que al fin la encunetra -- ¡y descubre que le tiene una grata sorpresa! A young boy encounters all sorts...