Diane Dillon
23) Never forgotten
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In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
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En este increiblemente hermoso libro, ilustrado con gran imaginación, Mosquito le cuenta a Iguana un cuento insólito que provoca una reacción en cadena con resultados desastrosos para la selva. Iguana se molesta tanto por el cuento que se tapa los oídos. Entonces cuando Pitón le da los buenos días, Iguana no lo oye y lo ignora completamente. Pitón, sospechando que Iguana trama algo malo contra él, se esconde en una madriguera de conejos,...
28) Blast off
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When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.
30) Aïda
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Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.
33) Earth Mother
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Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations with advice on how to make the world more perfect.