Jairo Buitrago
1) Walk with me
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A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
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Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012 Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests that Jimmy start training, and to inspire him, he gives Jimmy a box full of books, as well as newspaper clippings about Muhammad Ali - "The Greatest." Jimmy is swept...
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This "sublime picture book" (Kirkus STARRED Review) offers a hilarious and insightful guide to making new friends at your own pace. Ways to Make Friends will bolster compassion and make kids laugh on their way back to school. What's the best way to make friends? Toad has the most magnificent ideas! Sometimes they don't go according to plan but that's okay. Eventually Toad tires of making new friends, but comes to a marvelous conclusion: sometimes...
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"This inspired story about the magic of art, nature, and educators is a breath of fresh air."-Booklist Let's all draw dinosaurs outdoors! In this remarkable picture book, a group of students spend an unforgettable day drawing dinosaurs outside with their extraordinary teacher. Maybe your school has a playground, gym, computers, and a library. But at this school in a faraway mountain range, things are a little different. There's a blackboard, some...
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In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border.They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to...
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"Our school has almost nothing. A blackboard, some chairs, a teacher." The teacher is there at the door waiting for them every day. And this day they are taking whatever art supplies they can come up with and going outdoors to draw. And out there, amongst the trees, the mountains the huge boulders, the river are--dinosaurs--of every kind. And a squirrel." --Provided by publisher.
10) Wounded falcons
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"A story about the heart-opening effect that taking care of a wounded creature has on a wounded boy, from acclaimed picture-book creators Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng. Adrián is always in trouble, at school and at home, while Santiago gets along quite well. But they are friends. When Adrián finds a wounded bird in an abandoned lot in the midst of the city, things begin to change. Taking care of the bird, learning all about it, discovering...
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In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to...
12) Cave paintings
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"Our hero travels all alone on a spaceship, through the universe, past galaxies, comets and planets to go visit his grandmother on Earth for the summer holidays. She takes him to visit an ancient cave, where he discovers handprints and drawings of unknown animals made by human beings just like him. To top off his wonderful holiday she gives him mysterious objects that once belonged to his grandfather -- paper and crayons." --
15) Camino a casa
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Sensitive and intelligent treatment of a fatherless family.
"Un álbum ilustrado donde la fantasía encubre la nostalgia y aborda, con imaginación y ternura, un tema difícil: la ausencia del padre. Una niña pequeña pide a un león que la acompañe en su vida diaria, de la escuela a su casa, y al hacerlo compartirá con ella pobreza, tareas domésticas y la ausencia del padre. El león imaginario, símbolo de fuerza y protección dará a la pequeña...
16) El edificio
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Señor Levin opens a clock and watch shop on the ground floor of an apartment building, and over the decades watches as the city changes and all but one of the tenants, Señora Blanca, move on, until a boy named Iván moves in and finds mice.
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Ana looks out the pet store window with the store's last remaining animals for sale-a dog, a hedgehog and a mouse. What are they waiting for?
Ana remembers finding the dog and bringing him to the store as a puppy. She's watched as all the other dogs-the most charming, the most elegant, the strongest-have all gone off. Ana, too, has never left, except at nights when she closes the store and goes home to the modest apartment she shares with her grandmother....
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La primera edición del libro Gerencia pública y control fiscal se publicó en 2007. Los cambios institucionales y normativos originaron esta nueva edición, compuesta por siete capítulos: "El Estado y las políticas públicas", "Administración y gerencia pública", "Gestión financiera desde la perspectiva del Estado", "Agregados macroeconómicos"; "Indicadores de gestión y resultados en las entidades del Estado", "Control fiscal" y, finalmente,...
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"Este día de comienzos de noviembre es raro, ocurrirán cosas importantes y el mundo de Gabriel se sacudirá. Con el trasfondo de una ciudad en guerra, el sueño parece hacerse realidad: podrá hablarle, pasar un rato con ella, conocerla y comprender que nada es un hecho seguro, que la vida nos sorprende de maneras inesperadas." --Back cover.