Un Lazo a la Luna/Moon Rope: Una Leyenda Peruana/A Peruvian Folktale by Lois Ehlert (1992)
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Fox wants to go to the moon. Mole does not. Will they make it to the moon? No one's telling, not even the birds. Long fascinated by pre-Columbian art, Lois Ehlert bases her collage illustrations on ancient Peruvian textiles, jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, and architectural detail. Told in Spanish and English, the book offers young readers a glimpse into the riches of South American culture. Full color.

Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems by Langston Hughes (1998)
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Popular poet Langston Hughes recounts the first Christmas in five separate poems and one brief translation from the Spanish. Readers will come away with a new understanding of the meaning of Christmas. Full color.

The Little Ghost Who Wouldn't Go Away by Joseph J. Ruiz (2000)
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Pedro, our little ghost, has a good reason to stick around the tiny mountain community of EI Rito in northern New Mexico. And Rebecca Garcia is determined to find out what it is. Many stories had been handed down about how ghosts could be lost in the world of the living and all the other young girls were afraid....

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepulveda (2006)
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Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him. The first two promises are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it? Illustrations.