Alma Flor Ada's Books
There are 15 books
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Fairy-Tale News from Hidden Forest
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Leslie Tryon
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: July 10, 2007
Ages: 5 - 8
When the residents of Hidden Forest wake up and open their morning papers, they are in for a surprise. An enormous beanstalk has mysteriously sprouted outside of Jack Blake's house, and Jack is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile,...
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Tales Our Abuelitas Told
A Hispanic Folktale Collection
By: F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada
Cover By: Felipe Davalos / Illustrated by: Felipe Davalos, Susan Guevara, Leyla Torres and Vivi Escriva
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: August 22, 2006
Ages: 5 - 10
Once upon a time, in a land far away...These stories have journeyed far -- over mountains, deserts, and oceans -- carried by wind, passed on to us by our ancestors. Now they have found their way to you.A sly fox, a bird of a...
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Cuentos que contaban nuestras abuelas (Tales Our Abuelitas Told)
Cuentos populares Hispánicos
By: F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada
Cover By: Felipe Davalos / Illustrated by: Felipe Davalos, Susan Guevara, Leyla Torres and Vivi Escriva
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: August 22, 2006
Ages: 5 - 10
Estos cuentos han viajado por largo tiempo -- sobre montañas, a través de mares y desiertos, llevados por el viento, contados por nuestros antepasados. Ahora llegan hasta ti. Una astuta zorra, un pájaro de mil...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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With Love, Little Red Hen
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Leslie Tryon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: November 16, 2004
Ages: 5 - 8
Hidden Forest has a new resident. Little Red Hen and her seven little chicks have moved into a cottage and plan to grow a bountiful crop of corn in the nearby field. The problem is that none of the Red Hen's neighbors are...
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I Love Saturdays y Domingos
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Elivia Savadier
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Ages: 4 - 8
Saturdays and Sundays are very special days for the child in this story. On Saturdays, she visits Grandma and Grandpa, who come from a European-American background, and on Sundays -- los domingos -- she visits Abuelito y...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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Yours Truly, Goldilocks
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Leslie Tryon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2001
Ages: 4 - 8
Stories To Go!Everyone's been invited to the Three Little Pigs' housewarming party. Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood have already marked it on their calendars.Unfortunately, so have the Wolves -- the Big Bad kind who...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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My Name Is Maria Isabel
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: K. Dyble Thompson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publication date: December 12, 1999
Ages: 7 - 10
For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marías in this class," says her teacher. "Why...
Other Formats: eBook
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The Three Golden Oranges
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Reg Cartwright
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 1, 1999
Ages: 5 - 8
Far on the other side of the mountains, next to an enchanted castle, grows a tree with three golden oranges. It is there that the three brothers -- Santiago, Tomás, and Matías -- must journey if they wish to find a...
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Under The Royal Palms
A Childhood in Cuba
By: Alma Flor Ada
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: November 1, 1998
Ages: 8 - 12
In this companion volume to Alma Flor Ada's Where the Flame Trees Bloom, the author offers young readers another inspiring collection of stories and reminiscences drawn from her childhood on the island of Cuba. Through those...
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Dear Peter Rabbit
By: Alma Flor Ada
Illustrated by: Leslie Tryon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Publication date: February 1, 1997
Ages: 5 - 8
Children and their parents will be delighted with this witty collection of letters written by famous storybook characters eagerly anticipating Goldilocks's birthday party and the Three Little Pigs' housewarming (which keeps...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
