Meet Alma’s favorite toy animals . . . in two languages! The celebrated series of bilingual board books continues—starring the subject of the Caldecott Honor Book Alma and How She Got Her Name.
If you know little Alma, you know she loves animals! Just ask her flying friend Pajarito. Alma’s favorite dog tells her woof. The cat says meow,and the cow goes moooo. What do the sheep, the duckies, and the fishies say? And what do you think the piggie says when they roll downhill?In this fifth entry in the joyful board book series Alma’s Words/Las palabras de Alma, award-winning author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal shares Alma’s affection for the friendly creatures in her life, with words and simple phrases in English and Spanish on every spread.
Juana Martinez-Neal is the Peruvian-born daughter and granddaughter of painters. Her debut as an author-illustrator, the Caldecott Honor Book Alma and How She Got Her Name, inspired the first four books in Alma’s Words/Las palabras de Alma, a bilingual board book series. She is the creator of the acclaimed Zonia’s Rain Forest and the illustrator of La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya, for which she won a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award; Babymoon by Hayley Barrett; the New York Times best-selling Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi; Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa by Sara Andrea Fajardo; and Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, which won a Robert F. Sibert Medal. She also co-illustrated, with Molly Idle, I Don’t Care by Julie Fogliano. Juana Martinez-Neal lives in Connecticut with her family. Visit her online at www.juanamartinezneal.com.
Meet Alma’s favorite toy animals . . . in two languages! The celebrated series of bilingual board books continues—starring the subject of the Caldecott Honor Book Alma and How She Got Her Name.
If you know little Alma, you know she loves animals! Just ask her flying friend Pajarito. Alma’s favorite dog tells her woof. The cat says meow,and the cow goes moooo. What do the sheep, the duckies, and the fishies say? And what do you think the piggie says when they roll downhill?In this fifth entry in the joyful board book series Alma’s Words/Las palabras de Alma, award-winning author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal shares Alma’s affection for the friendly creatures in her life, with words and simple phrases in English and Spanish on every spread.
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Juana Martinez-Neal is the Peruvian-born daughter and granddaughter of painters. Her debut as an author-illustrator, the Caldecott Honor Book Alma and How She Got Her Name, inspired the first four books in Alma’s Words/Las palabras de Alma, a bilingual board book series. She is the creator of the acclaimed Zonia’s Rain Forest and the illustrator of La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya, for which she won a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award; Babymoon by Hayley Barrett; the New York Times best-selling Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi; Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa by Sara Andrea Fajardo; and Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, which won a Robert F. Sibert Medal. She also co-illustrated, with Molly Idle, I Don’t Care by Julie Fogliano. Juana Martinez-Neal lives in Connecticut with her family. Visit her online at www.juanamartinezneal.com.
