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Del Sol Books provides the best Spanish/English/Bilingual Children's Books/CDs/DVDs, featuring Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy, and Suni Paz

F. Isabel CampoyAlma Flor AdaAuthors : Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy
3rd Grade - 5th Grade

Storytelling Books and CDs

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Storytelling Books and CDs Spanish Set
$57.91, Including 20%-Off, Free Shipping, and No Sales Tax
Get The Complete Set2 Softcover Spanish Books, 2 Spanish CDs, and 1 Bilingual CD
Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, Spanish,
2 CDs, Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade,  $29.95   Listen
Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, Softcover, Spanish, Book,
Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, Felipe Davalos, Susan Guevara, and Leyla Torres, Felipe Davalos, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9781416939658, $12.99
La moneda de oro, Softcover, Spanish, Book,
Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9788424133641, $9.50
La moneda de oro - The Gold Coin, Bilingual, CD, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, $19.95   Listen

 

Storytelling Books and CDs English Set
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Get The Complete Set3 Hardcover English Books, 1 Softcover English Book, 1 Bilingual CD, and 1 English CD
Tales Our Abuelitas Told, Hardcover, English, Book,
Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, Felipe Davalos, Susan Guevara, and Leyla Torres, Felipe Davalos, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689825835, $19.95   Watch
The Gold Coin, Softcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689717932, $6.99
The Gold Coin - La moneda de oro, Bilingual,
CD, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, $19.95   Listen
The Malachite Palace, Hardcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689319723, $16.95   Watch
The Malachite Palace, Jordis Star, and The Unicorn of the West, English,
CD, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, $19.95   Listen
The Unicorn of the West, Hardcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689317781, $16.95   Watch

 


Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, Felipe Davalos, Susan Guevara, and Leyla Torres, Felipe Davalos, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9781416939658, $12.99
Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, Spanish,
2 CDs, Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade,  $29.95   Listen
Tales Our Abuelitas Told, Hardcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, Felipe Davalos, Susan Guevara, and Leyla Torres, Felipe Davalos, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689825835, $19.95   Watch

Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, Tales Our Abuelitas ToldCuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas - Tales Our Abuelitas ToldAll 12 folktales in award-winning Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas told by Alma Flor and Isabel in Spanish on 2 CDs.  

Authors' Note : Writing Tales Our Abuelitas Told was for me a recognition and a way of honoring my grandmother as well as and an expression of love and hope for my nine grandchildren as I express in my dedication.  I´m sure it is something very similar for Isabel, whose dedication is to her great-nephew Pablito.  We are very grateful that these beloved tales are being so well received.

Traditional tales open our hearts to old voices and new worlds, to wondrous adventures and ever lasting feelings. Words like Había una vez or Érase que se era, hold for the listener or reader the magic promise of enchantment.  The stories retold in our recent book Tales Our Abuelitas Told or, in the Spanish version Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, reflect the diversity of our culture: some developed in Latin America from Indigenous roots, others had their origin in Africa or in various regions of Spain and go back to the Hebrew, Arabic or Basque traditions.  Their settings may be Mexico or the Southwest, Puerto Rico, Cuba or the Amazon among many others. They all keep children spell-bound. Stories like these enriched our childhood and left our imagination forever open to new discoveries, to the daring possibility of dreaming better worlds. Words like ¨happily ever after¨ got transformed into lives in search of understanding and compassion, lives devoted to promote access and equality for all, social justice, and peace.

The introduction to this delightful collection explains clearly how stories develop and change over time; in fact, the two storytellers heard most of these amusing tales when they were children and have retold them many times since in their own unique styles. Each retelling is accompanied by a brief description of its origin. Included are tales about dancing goats, a turtle that outwits a deer, and a beetle that declares war on a cow; all of the selections are peppered with energetic dialogue and witty detail. Children will relish their humor, especially if read aloud, and teens will also enjoy this lively presentation. Traditional story beginnings and endings are provided in Spanish and translated into English, including one foreboding opening: In a land where you will go but from where you will never return. Four Latino artists provide an interesting variety of illustration. Make room on your shelves for this excellent book.


The Malachite Palace, Hardcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689319723, $16.95
The Malachite Palace, Jordis Star, and The Unicorn of the West, English,
CD, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, $19.95   Listen
The Unicorn of the West, Hardcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689317781, $16.95   Watch

The Malachite Palace, Jordis Star, The Unicorn of the WestThree of Alma Flor Ada's classic stories told by Alma Flor in English on CD.

The Malachite PalaceJordis StarThe Unicorn of the WestAuthor’s Note about The Malachite Palace : The word “malachite” fascinated me since childhood. In the beautiful poem “A Margarita” the great Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío describes a king who had “un palacio de diamantes, un kiosco de malaquita y un rebaño de elefantes” [a palace made of diamonds, a malaquite kiosk and an elephant herd]. The whole world he painted delighted me, but it was the “malachite kiosk” that intrigued me. Not knowing what malachite was, the sound of the word was in itself fascinating. Many years later I had the opportunity to visit the extraordinary museum of The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and there, to my surprise, was a magnificent malachite kiosk. Did Darío heard about this outrageous gift to a tzar? Or was the imagination of the poet the inspiration for the kiosk? I probably will never know, but haunted by the beauty of word and stone, one day I simply began writing: “There once was a princess who lived in a malachite palace…”  As the story evolved, the values I hold true: the value of freedom and the responsibilities it demands, the richness of diversity, enriched the story. And what a pleasure to have an extraordinary artist as Leonid Gore create such delicate and inspiring illustrations that make the book itself a gem.

Author’s Note about Jordi's Star:  This book was inspired by a landscape where two different mountains, one green, one dry faced each other. In reality it is the sum of my beliefs: beauty is all around us, if only we pause to see it. And love is the strongest energy. As we love we are transformed, as we love the world can be transformed.

Author’s Note about The Unicorn of the West : This story was born out of the request of my great-nieces Virginia Marie, Lauren and Allison Roure De Miranda for a bedtime story. When I asked them what they wanted the story to be about they requested “unicorns”. So, inspired by their beauty and their trust on my storytelling abilities I began: “Each evening, as the sun set…” and the book was born. It has always been one my favorites, perhaps because of my love for the girls who inspired it, and their mother, my niece Virgilú.


La moneda de oro, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9788424133641, $9.50
La moneda de oro
, Hardcover, Spanish, Book,
Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9788424133382, $16.95
La moneda de oro - The Gold Coin, Bilingual,
CD, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, $19.95   Listen
The Gold Coin, Softcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, 3rd Grade - 5th Grade, 9780689717932, $6.99

La moneda de oro, The Gold CoinThe Gold Coin, La moneda de oroLa moneda de oro - The Gold CoinAlma Flor Ada's La moneda de oro and The Gold Coin told by Alma Flor in Spanish and English on CD.

Author’s Note : This was my first book published in English by a major American publisher. I owe my daughter, Rosalma Zubizarreta, the encouragement to pursue many publishers until one was willing to publish the story. Without her enthusiasm for this story, which she wanted to see in the hands of every child in the United States and her gentle support after each rejection, the book would probably had been published abroad, in Spanish, and probably never reach the wide audiences it has reached. The story was born one night, while returning home in the San Francisco Bay Area, after working with migrant farm-working parents until late in the Watsonville-Salinas area. It appeared in front of my eyes, as if it were a movie, and I saw the characters acting and speaking the whole story. When I arrived home I jotted down the whole story before falling asleep. The next morning it all seemed like a dream, but the pages were there, with the full text.  It has been an immense joy that Rosalma’s wishes materialized, as the book has been included in most major reading series and in many reading lists. The letters I have received from children and adolescents about this book are very moving and I have enjoyed visiting many classes which had read the book where we have talked about our personal richness, and students have shown their understanding of true values. Probably the most extraordinary experience in connection with this book was to attend the performance staged by Sylvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes (San Diego County Office of Education) of The Gold Coin performed by students in the main plaza of the Zapotec village of Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca.

Juan has been a thief for many years. He is pale and bent from creeping about at night, and that's what he's doing the night he peeks into Dona Josefa's hut. She is holding a gold coin and says that she must be the richest woman in the world. Then and there, Juan determines to steal that coin, and any others she may have. It is a decision that changes Juan's life forever. This gentle story of redemption, ably translated by Randall, is structurally at once cumulative and circular, and is ideally suited for memorization and telling. It will work well as a read-aloud, too. Waldman's clean, pale watercolors have an art nouveau feel, and are large enough to be seen at story times. Whether told, read to a group, or shared one-on-one, the tale of Juan's search for an old woman's treasure makes an important point in a concise and satisfying manner.


Storytelling Books and CDs :
Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas, Tales Our Abuelitas ToldThe Malachite PalaceThe Unicorn of the WestLa moneda de oro, The Gold Coin

Libros para contar / Stories for the Telling Books and CD :
Amigos, FriendsEl canto del mosquito, The Song of the Teeny Tiny MosquitoMe gustaria tener, How Happy I Would BeQuien nacera aqui, Whos Hatching HereUna extrana visita, Strange Visitors

Cuentos para todo el ano / Stories the Year Round Books and CDs :
Rosa alada, A Rose with WingsLa sorpresa de Mama Coneja, A Surprise for Mother RabbitLa pinata vacia, The Empty PinataComo nacio el arco iris, How the Rainbow Came to BeDespues de la tormenta, After the StormLa hamaca de la vaca, In the Cows Backyard
El papalote, The KiteEl susto de los fantasmas, What Are Ghosts Afraid OfPavo para la cena de gracias  No gracias, Turkey forThanksgiving Dinner No ThanksLa jaula dorada, The Golden CageNo quiero derretirme, I Don't Want to MeltNo fui yo, It Wasn't Me


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