Joe Cepeda

"An easy reader where a boy sees insects and animals"--

"En un día muy ventoso, un niño se para junto a una ventana con su molinillo y de repente es llevado al cielo donde puede ver un cerdo, una gallina, una vaca y una oveja."-- "On a very windy day, a boy stands by a window with his pinwheel and is suddenly whisked into the sky where he can see a pig, a hen, a cow, and a sheep"--

"At the beach, a boy digs a tunnel where he finds a crab, starfish, and best of all, a dog"--

"Rafa and his dad love to measure anything and everything-including how much Rafa's dad loves him"--

In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.

When Ann worries that she is not good enough to participate in Sports Day, her teacher encourages her to try her best.

Hoping to win a prize for the best pumpkin at the fiesta, Foolish Fernando tries to copy Old Juana's successful gardening techniques, but without really watching to see how much effort and love she puts into her work. Includes a recipe for pumpkin soup.

An African folktale in which the son of the chief must make his way in the world with only a sackful of kola nuts and the help of some creatures that he has treated with kindness.

Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature.

When people and animals try to climb ladders to Heaven to escape problems with snakes, God, His secretary Bruce, and the angel Shaniqua decide that Heaven needs to be much further away.