Pre K - 12 Bilingual Read Alouds For World Read Aloud Day (3.9.11)

If you are participating in World Read Aloud Day (3.9.11), here's a list of favorite bilingual read alouds for you to consider.

Grades PreK-2

Arugeta, Jorge. 2007. Talking with Mother Earth/Hablando con Madre Tierra. Illustrated by Lucía Angela Pérez. Toronto: Groundwood Books. (English and Spanish).
Byrd, Lee Merrill. 2005. Lover Boy / Juanito el Carinoso: A Bilingual Counting Book (English and Spanish Edition). Illustrated by Francisco Delgado. NY: Lee & Low. (English and Spanish). 
Griego, Margot C., Betsy L. Bucks and Sharon S. Gilbert. 1988. Tortillitas para Mamá and Other Nursery Rhymes (Bilingual Edition in Spanish and English). Illustrated by  Laurel H. Kimball. NY: Henry Holt. (Spanish and English)
Hinojosa, Tish. 2002. Cada Nino / Every Child: A Bilingual Songbook for Kids. Illustrated by Lucia Angela Perez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Lee, Huy Voun. 2005. In the Leaves. NY: Henry Holt. (English and Mandarin)
Mado, Michio. 1998. The Magic Pocket: Selected Poems. Illustrated by Anno Mitsumasa. Translated by Empress Michiko. NY: Margaret K. McElderry. (Japanese and English)
 Mora, Pat. 1994. Listen to the Desert/Oye al Desierto. Illustrated by Francisco X. Mora. NY: Clarion. (English and Spanish)
Park, Linda Sue and Julia Durango. 2005. Yum! Yuck!  Illustrated by Sue Rama. Charlesbridge. (Multiple languages: A book of exclamations in English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Spanish,Yiddish)

Robles, Anthony D. 2003. Lakas and the Manilatown Fish/Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown. Illustrated by Carl Angel. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press. (English and Tagalog) Tagalog Audio Recording  
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. 2008. A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para soñar (English and Spanish Edition). Illustrated by Esau Andrade Valencia. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press. (English and Spanish)
Tron, Truong. 2003. Going Home, Coming Home/Ve Nha, Than Que Huong. Illustrated by Ann Phong. San Francisco, CA: Children’s Book Press. (English and Vietnamese)

Grades 3-5
Ahmed, Said Salah. 2006. The Lion's Share/Qayb Libaax. Illustrated by Kelly Dupre. Minnesota Humanities Commission.  (English and Somali).

Bouchard, David. 2008. An Aboriginal Carol. Illustrated by Moses Amik Beaver (First Nations). Music by Susan Aglukark (Inuit). Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press. (English and Inuktituk).

Gonzalez, Lucia. 2008. The Storyteller’s Cande/La velita de los cuentos. Illustrated by Lulu Delacre. San Francisco: Children’s Book Press. (English and Spanish) Spanish Audio Recording.

Hayes, Joe. 2003. The Day It Snowed Tortillas/ El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas, Folktales told In Spanish and English. Illustrated by Antonio Casto Lopez. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press. (Spanish and English).
Herrrera, Juan Felipe.  1995. Calling the Doves/El Canto de las Palomas. Illustrated by Elly Simmons. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press. (English and Spanish) Spanish Audio Recording.
Lee-Tai, Amy. 2006. A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino. Children’s Book Press. (Japanese and English)
Rose, Naomi C. 2009. Tibetan Tales from the Top of the World. Clear Light Publisher. (Tibetan and English).
Shin, Sun Yung. 2005. Cooper's Lesson. Illustrated by Kim Cogan. San Francisco: Children's Book Press. (English and Korean) Korean Audio Recording

Grades 6-8

From   Nuits de pow-wow

Anzaldua, Gloria. 1997. Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado. Illustrated by Consuelo Mendez. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press. (English and Spanish)

Bouchard, David & Pam Aleekuk. 2010. Nuits de pow-wow. Illustrated by Leonard Paul. Music by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press. (Bilingual French and Mi'kmaq). Trailer for Long Powwow Nights.
Bouchard, David. 2006.  Nokum is My Teacher (with CD). Translated by Northern Cree. Illustrated by Allan Sapp (Cree). Markham, Ontario: Red Deer Press. (English and Cree).
Parsons-Yazzie, Evangeline. 2005. Naazbaa'/Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home: A Story of the Navajo Long Walk. Illustrated by Irving Toddy. Salina Bookshelf. (Navajo and English).




Grades 9-12
Carlson, Lori Marie. 1998. Sol a Sol: Original and Selected Bilingual Poems. Illustrated by Emily Lisker. NY: Henry Holt. (English and Spanish)

Hayes, Joe. Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma. El Paso, TX: Chang, Edward. 2009. Walking into My World. NY: BookSurge. (Mandarin Chinese and English)

Cinco Puntos Press. (English and Spanish)

Heaney, Seamus. 2001. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. NY: Norton. (Anglo Saxon and English)

Marcos, Subcomandate. 2003. The Story of Colors / La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas (English and Spanish Edition). Illustrated by Domitila Dominguez. Translated by Anne Bar Din. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press. (English and Spanish)

Nye, Naomi Shihab. 1998. This Tree is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stores with Paintings by Mexican Artists. NY: Aladdin.  (English and Spanish)

Recent Children's Books about US Presidents & Their Famlies

Appelt, Kathi. 2005. Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America. Illustrated by Joy Fisher Hein. NY: Harper Collins.

Aylesworth, Jim. 2009. Our Abe Lincoln. Illustrated by Barbara McClintock. NY: Scholastic.

Barnes, Oeter. (2012). Woodrow Wilson: A Tale of Voting, Campaigns and Elections. Illustrated by Cheryl Barnes. Alexandria, VA: VSP Books.
Brown, Don. 2009. Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt. NY: Houghton Mifflin.

Cook, Michelle. 2009. Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack and the Pioneers of Change. Multiple Illustrators. NY: Bloomsbury.

Denenberg, Barry, 2008. Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life Remembered. Illustrated by Christopher Bing. NY: Feiwel & Friends.

Fleming, Candace, 2004. The Big Cheese: A True Tales of a Tremendous Cheddar. Illustrated by S.D. Schindler. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

From Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope. Illustrated by Bryan Collier.

Grimes. Nikki. 2008. Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope. Illustrated by Bryan Collier. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Freedman, Russell. (2012). Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: Ths Story Behind an American Friendship. New York: Clarion Books.

Kalma, Maira. (2012). Looking at Lincoln. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books.

Krensky, Stephen. (2004). Dangerous Crossings: The Revolutionary Voyafe of John and John Quincy Adams. Illustrated by Greg Harlin. New York: Dutton.

Hopkinson, Deborah. 2009. First Family. Illustrated by Ag Ford. NY: Katherine Tegen Books.

Krull, Kathleen. 2011. Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame, (And What the Neighbors thought). NY: Houghton Mifflin (Ebook).

Krull, Kathleen. 2010. The Brothers Kennedy: John, Robert, Edward. Illustrated by Amy June Bates. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Krull, Kathleen. 2010. Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country). Illustrated by Paul Brewer and Stacy Innerst. NY: Harcourt.

Krull, Kathleen. 2010. A Boy Named FDR: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Grew Up to Change America. Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. NY: Knopf.

Krull, Kathleen. 2008. Hillary Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight.  Illustrated by Amy June Bates. NY: Simon & Schuster.

McCullough, Noah 2009. First Kids: The True Story of All the President’s Children. NY: Scholastic.

From: Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out.

N.C.B.L.A. 2010. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick. (More than 100 illustrators contributed to this 250+ page volume).

Obama, Barack. 2010. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters. Illustrated by Loren Long. NY: Knopf.

Obama, Barack. 2009. Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama’s First Words to America. Illustrated by Greg Ruth. NY: Harper Collins.

Piven, Hanoch. 2004. What Presidents Are Made Of. NY: Antheneum.

Rappaport, Doreen. 2010. Jack’s Path of Courage: The Life of John F. Kennedy. Illustrated by Matt Tavares. NY: Hyperion.

From Eleanor, Quiet No More. Illustrated by Gary Kelley.

Rappaport, Doreen. 2009. Eleanor, Quiet No More. Illustrated by Gary Kelley. NY Hyperion.

Rappaport, Doreen. 2008. Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. NY Hyperion.

Sandler, Martin W. 2011. Kennedy through the Lens: How Photography and Television Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Leader. NY: Walker Books.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. 2007. George vs. George: The American Revolution from Both Sides. Washington DC: National Geographic.

Thomson, Sarah. 2008. What Lincoln Said. Illustrated by James Ransome. NY: Collins.

Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth. 2008. First Dog Fala. Illustrated by Michael Montgomery.  Peachtree Publishers.

Wadsworth, Ginger. 2009. Camping with the President. Illustrated by Karen Dugan. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek Books.

Winters, Kay. 2006. Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Words. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. NY: Aladdin.

Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2010. Obama: Only in America. Illustrated by Robert Barrett. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.

Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2010. Michelle Obama: First Mom. Illustrated by Robert Barrett. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books.

 

 

 

 

Wells, Rosemary. (2011). Lincoln and His Boys. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

 

Detail From First Dog Fala, Illustrated by Michael Montgomery.