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Author : Amy Costales, Illustrator : Mercedes McDonald
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Lupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga - Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend

Del Sol Books, Get The Complete SetLupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga - Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Amy Costales, Alexandra Artigas, Kindergarten - 3rd Grade, 9780873588881, $16.95

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Lupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga - Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend, Del Sol BooksLupe and Maritza are super best friends. When they’re together, they can be anything they want—pirates, scientists, or heroes. When they’re apart, well, life just isn’t as fun.

This is the story of two girls who make each day a new adventure. And when they get into a spat—which is inevitable even among the most super, best of friends—they have to find a way to make it right. And luckily, with a little bit of this and a little bit of that, they do.

About the Author : A. Costales has lived in Spain, Mexico, Thailand, and India, but recently returned to the United States with her family, where she is a Spanish teacher. As a little girl she shared her adventures with her super best friend, Clara. They inspected tadpoles, looked for counterfeit money, planned pet parades, and climbed Clara’s oak tree. One day they had a fight over magic potion and A. Costales had to learn how to apologize to her super best friend. Nowadays she shares her adventures with a dog named Gracie, a kitten named Lola, and her children, Kelsey and Samuel.

Alexandra Artigas was raised in several countries throughout Europe and Latin America, but mainly in Caracas, Venezuela, where she grew up on fresh mangoes and guavas, surrounded by palm trees, city lights, and tropical forest. It was in Caracas where she met her super best friend, Carolina. They had fantastic adventures, climbing trees, creating secret rooms with unique powers, and spending summers at her family’s farm, lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle, playing by the rivers and surrounded by exotic animals. She lives in southern California with her husband, Nicolas, and their little boy, Andrei.

Amy Costales learned her first words of Spanish on her grandfather's lap. He was a teller of tall tales who created a fantasy world about Spain and Cuba. When her family moved to Spain when she was a child, Grandpa's fantasy world became hers. Spain captivated her. To this day she dreams of wood smoke and the sound of her shoes on cobblestone streets.  In her teens Amy moved with her parents to Southern California. She struggled to adjust, dropped out of high school, and moved out. She married a young Mexican immigrant and soon had a daughter. Her husband was physically abusive, and Amy left him, but she never left the Mexican community to which he introduced her.  At age twenty-one, Amy was a single parent, still a drop-out and working as a maid. She had experienced homelessness twice. She decided to go to school. Without her family and friends—who offered love, childcare, places to live, car maintenance, and laughter—she would not have made it through college.  Her experiences lead her towards a career in education. She has taught Spanish, Social Studies, ESL, and bilingual primary school in the U.S. public school system and in international schools in India and Thailand. Most recently, she has taught Spanish at the University of Oregon.  During the first year of her teaching career, she was reading a book to her bilingual third grade class when a student came up and snuggled on her lap.  His mom was a single parent, undocumented, with four children. They lived in a garage. Amy was suddenly struck by how different the lives of the children in the book were from the life of the boy on her lap. She started writing about kids she knew: kids that share rooms and beds, drink horchata, suck on tamarind candy, speak Spanish, wear cowboy boots, dance, and sometimes cross borders without papers. They live in extended families that rely on each other, and sometimes they don't have a father. Amy firmly believes that all children should be able to open books and see the astonishing diversity of the world, as well as a life that looks like their own. This belief, above all other things, led her to writing for children.  Her newest bilingual book for children, Sundays on Fourth Street / Los domingos en la calle Cuatro (Piñata Books, 2009), is a tender tribute to time spent with loved ones. Based on real-life visits to Fourth Street in San Ana, California, Amy Costales has written a story that pays homage to a special street and—more importantly—time spent with family.  Her first book, Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend / Lupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga (Luna Rising, 2006), a Junior Library Guild Premier Selection, is about two confident and unstoppable girls who share daily adventures until they have a fight. This story celebrates girls, childhood, and apologies. Amy's second book, Abuelita Full of Life / Abuelita llena de vida (Luna Rising, 2007), an Américas Award Commended Title, is about a young boy who must adjust to the arrival of his grandmother from Mexico. José has to give up space for his abuelita, speak Spanish to her, and listen to her music. He discovers that he doesn't mind the changes at all because Abuelita is astoundingly full of life. This book celebrates life, aging, and the extended family. Her third book, Hello Night / Hola noche (Luna Rising, 2007), an International Latino Book Award Best Bilingual Picture Book, is in bilingual verse. Written for her son, it is sure to sooth any child at bedtime.  Another bilingual picture books for kids, Abuelo vivía solo / Grandfather Used to Live Alone, is forthcoming in 2010 from Piñata Books. A passionate advocate of multicultural education, she lives in Oregon with her husband Fernando, her children Kelsey and Samuel, and a myriad of pets.  She is currently finishing a memoir.


Bilingual Collection Blue Books :
Abuelita llena de vida - Abuelita Full of Life, Del Sol BooksAbuelo vivio solo - Grandpa Used to Live Alone, Del Sol BooksA la cama Cucuy - Its Bedtime Cucuy, Del Sol BooksAlla en el rancho grande - Rowdy Rowdy Ranch, Del Sol BooksBaila, Miranda, baila - Dancing Miranda, Del Sol BooksBastante Grande - Big Enough, Del Sol BooksBeisbol en Marte - Baseball on Mars, Del Sol BooksBenjamin y la palabra - Benjamin and the Word, Del Sol BooksBuenas noches Papito Dios - Goodnight Papito Dios, Del Sol BooksCaldo Caldo Caldo - Sip Slurp Soup Soup, Del Sol BooksCesar Chavez La lucha por la justicia - Cesar Chavez The Struggle for Justice, Del Sol BooksChiles para Benito - Chiles for Benito, Del Sol BooksConoces al Cucuy - Do You Know the Cucuy, Del Sol BooksEl chocolate de abuelita - Grandmas Chocolate, Del Sol BooksEl cochinito fugitivo - The Runaway Piggy, Del Sol BooksEl Cuervito al rescate - Little Crow to the Rescue, Del Sol BooksEl desierto es mi madre - The Desert is my Mother, Del Sol BooksEl forastero y el gallo rojo - The Stranger and the Red Rooster, Del Sol BooksEl hombre mofle - Muffler Man, Del Sol BooksEl muumuu de Marina - Marinas Muumuu, Del Sol BooksEl nino goloso - The Triple Banana Split Boy, Del Sol BooksEl papalote de Lupita - Lupitas Papalote, Del Sol BooksEl picnic de Tio Chente - Uncle Chentes Picnic, Del Sol BooksEl regalo de la flor de Nochebuena - The Gift of the Poinsettia, Del Sol BooksEl regalo del lenador - The Woodcutters Gift, Del Sol BooksEsperando a Papa - Waiting for Papa, Del Sol BooksEstrellita en la ciudad grande - Estrellita in the Big City, Del Sol BooksEstrellita se despide de su isla - Estrellita Says Goodbye to Her Island, Del Sol BooksFamilia - Family, Del Sol BooksGirasoles - Sunflowers, Del Sol BooksHola Noche - Hello Night, Del Sol BooksIsabel Allende Recuerdos para un cuento - Isabel Allende Memories for a Story, Del Sol BooksJuan y el Chupacabras - Juan and the Chupacabras, Del Sol BooksLa carrera de Ricardo - Ricardos Race, Del Sol BooksLa fiesta para Papa Luis - The Party for Papa Luis, Del Sol BooksLa guerra de las raspas - The Battle of the Snowcones, Del Sol BooksLa guitarra de mi tata - My Tatas Guitar, Del Sol BooksLa parranda de Mimi - Mimis Parranda, Del Sol BooksLa rana y sus amigos salvan a la humanidad - The Frog and His Friends Save Humanity, Del Sol BooksLas empanadas que hacia la abuela - The Empanadas that Abuela Made, Del Sol BooksLa senora de la panaderia - The Bakery Lady, Del Sol BooksLas sopaipillas de Benito - Benitos Sopaipillas, Del Sol BooksLas tortillas de Magda - Magdas Tortillas, Del Sol BooksLa tierra de las adivinanzas - The Land of the Riddles, Del Sol BooksLa ultima muneca - The Last Doll, Del Sol BooksLa vaca Tomasa - Tomasa the Cow, Del Sol BooksLo que Pepita descubre - Pepita Finds Out, Del Sol BooksLos bizcochitos de Benito - Benitos Bizcochitos, Del Sol BooksLos domingos en la calle cuatro - Sundays on Fourth Street, Del Sol BooksLos recuerdos de Chave - Chaves Memories, Del Sol BooksLos tamales de Ana - Growing Up with Tamales, Del Sol BooksLupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga - Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend, Del Sol BooksMagda y la pinata magico - Magdas Pinata Magic, Del Sol BooksMama Zorra y Don Coyote - Mother Fox and Mr Coyote, Del Sol BooksMariposas en la calle Carmen - Butterflies on Carmen Street, Del Sol BooksMayte y el Cuco - Mayte and the Bogeyman, Del Sol BooksMis abuelos y yo - My Grandparents and I, Del Sol BooksMis papitos Heroes de la cosecha - My Parents Heroes of the Harvest, Del Sol BooksNo hay tiempo para monstruos - No Time for Monsters, Del Sol BooksPachanga deliciosa - Delicious Hullaballo, Del Sol BooksPepita empaca - Pepita Packs Up, Del Sol BooksPepita en la calle Pepper - Pepita on Pepper Street, Del Sol BooksPepita habla dos veces - Pepita Talks Twice, Del Sol BooksPepita y el color rosado - Pepita Thinks Pink, Del Sol BooksPepita siempre tarde - Pepita Takes Time, Del Sol BooksQuiquiriqui - Kikiriki, Del Sol BooksRecordando a Abuela - Remembering Grandma, Del Sol BooksRene tiene dos apellidos - Rene has Two Last Names, Del Sol BooksSalsa, Del Sol BooksSandia Fria - Icy Watermelon, Del Sol BooksSomos primos - We Are Cousins, Del Sol BooksTina y las pieles de espantapajaros - Tina and the Scarecrow Skins, Del Sol BooksUn dia con mis tias - A Day with My Aunts, Del Sol BooksYo soy Rene el nino - I Am Rene the Boy, Del Sol BooksZulema y la bruja lechuza - Zulema and the Witch Owl, Del Sol Books


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