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She felt so forlorn since her three guests had gone.
It no longer mattered that she get her chores done.
“I’ ll join them!” she thought. “But what shall I bring?
What would be the best gift to give to a king?”
Melchior had brought gold; Gaspar, myrrh in a flask.
“Guess who brought frankincense?” Balthazar had asked.
She searched all her cupboards and filled up a sack
with all of the treats and the toys she could pack.
Sentía tanta pena de no ir con los reyes,
que ya no importaba si hacía sus quehaceres.
Y entonces decide: “¡Los voy a alcanzar!
Pero... ¿qué regalo a un rey le va a agradar?”.
Melchor llevaba oro, y mirra, Gaspar.
“¿Y quién lleva incienso?”, bromeó Baltasar.
Buscó en los armarios, y un saco llenó
con todos los juegos y dulces que halló.
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La fiesta de las tortillas
The Fiesta of the Tortillas
Jorge Argueta
The narration is full of suspense
and rich with the delicious scents
of the author’s family restaurant in
El Salvador, which remains intact in
his memory and his heart from his
childhood.
El mejor regalo del mundo: la leyenda de la Vieja Belén
The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belén
Julia Alvarez
Renowned Latina author Julia Alvarez recreates the
legend of Dominican folk character La Vieja Belen in this
delightful bilingual rhyming story, beautifully illustrated by
Dominican artist Ruddy Nuñez.
La gallinita en la ciudad
The Little Hen in the City
Jorge Argueta
A small, tired, and ill speckled hen
flies in front of her window and
arouses in Natalia nostalgia for
her grandfather, who stayed in El
Salvador. She is then determined to
save the hen and moves heaven and
earth to achieve it.
El mejor regalo del mundo
Illustrated by Ruddy Núñez
BILINGUAL ENGLISH-SPANISH BOOKS
La fiesta de las tortillas/
The Fiesta of the Tortillas
-
Bilingual Edition
978-0-88272-202-3
$14.95
La gallinita en la ciudad/
The Little Hen in the City
-
Bilingual Edition
978-0-88272-203-0
$14.95
El mejor regalo del mundo: la leyenda de la Vieja
Belén/
The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja
Belén
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Bilingual Edition
978-1-62263-149-0
$12.95
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