By James Luna
Illustrations
by Monica Barela-Di Bisceglie
- ISBN: 978-1-55885-871-8
- Publication Date: October 31, 2018
- Bind: Hardcover
- Pages: 32
This bilingual picture book presents a
warm recollection of time spent on the playground with friends.
“On Ana’s first day of kindergarten, the
slide stood like a mountain.” The other kids in her class encourage her to
glide “down, down, down, to the bottom and her new friends.”
Young readers will relate to these elementary
school children playing outside. In first grade, Ana meets Karina, who becomes
her best friend. Together, they swing higher and higher as they try to kick the
sky! In second grade, Ana and her friends dangle like monkeys, eat pretend
bananas and call out, “Ooo, ooo, ooo! Can you do what we do?” As they grow, the
kids learn to play new games on the playground: basketball, soccer and even
handball.
Acclaimed children’s book author James
Luna uses short, simple text and active words to depict children at play. They
swing and hang, dribble and shoot, pass and kick, laugh and learn. And when
they get to sixth grade, they have to say good-bye to their school’s
playground. But someday they will return!
JAMES LUNA is an elementary school
teacher in Riverside, California. He is the author of a short, bilingual novel
for intermediate readers, A Mummy in Her Backpack / Una momia en su mochila
(Piñata Books, 2012), and two picture books, The Place Where You Live / El
lugar donde vives (Piñata Books, 2015) and The Runaway Piggy / El cochinito
fugitivo (Piñata Books, 2010), which was selected by Texas schoolchildren as
their favorite book on the Tejas Star Reading List.
MONICA BARELA-DI BISCEGLIE, an
elementary school art teacher, earned her BFA in Studio Painting and
Printmaking at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a part-time film
production technician in the Albuquerque film industry. She lives in Rio
Rancho, New Mexico. This is her first book.
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