![]() ![]() 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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