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The milk makers

1987
Explains how cows produce milk and how it is processed before being delivered to stores.

Silent Lotus

1994
Although she cannot speak or hear, Lotus trains as a Khmer court dancer and becomes eloquent in dancing out the legends of the gods.

Hot-air Henry

1986
A sassy Siamese cat stows away on a hot air balloon and ends up taking a fur-raising flight across the mountains.

Horace

1994
Horace, an adopted child, realizes that being part of a family depends on how you feel and not how you look.

Caps for sale

a tale of a peddler, some monkeys, and their monkey business
1996
A large format picture book in which a band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

Space case

1982
When the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot.

Barn dance!

1988
Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.

Saturday sancocho

1999
Maria Lili and her grandmother barter a dozen eggs at the market square to get the ingredients to cook their traditional Saturday chicken sancocho. Includes recipe.

The trek

1989
The city streets become a jungle, then a desert, as a child forges her way to school, observing and avoiding all the wild animals posing as trees, chimneys, fences, and even fruit.

The train to Lulu's

1994
The experiences of two young sisters traveling alone on the train to their great-aunt Lulu's house.

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