SIPAPA Reads! Best Spanish Books for Kids

Summer Reading: After 5th Grade - Horrible Science!

Nick Arnold - Esa Horrible ciencia / Horrible Science Series

Nick Arnold has written HUNDREDS of books about science. His Horrible Science books cover everything from blood to bugs, poisons to pus - it's all gory, yucky stuff and we love it.  Read more about Nick...here

Esas Mortiferas Enfermedades / Deadly Diseases
Nick Arnold
ISBN: 8427220901

¡Los aspectos más sobrecogedores de la ciencia!
¡Esas mortíferas enfermedades te dejarán temblando un buen rato!
Si quieres descubrir:
¿Que le ocurrió a una enfermera que se bebió una diarrea?
¿Que científico utilizó globos oculares para alimentar bacterias?
¿Por qué el cólera hace que la piel se vuelva de color azul?

Si crees que tu estómago resistirá la parte mas nauseabunda de la ciencia, sigue leyendo mientras nosotros te explicamos los detalles más horribles sobre algunas enfermedades. Desde el resfriado común a la temible viruela, descubre qué le ocurre a tu cuerpo cuando sufre un buen ataque de gérmenes. Con estremecedoras notas aclaratorias y fichas con datos sobre peligrosos virus, unas divertidas ilustraciones y curiosos tests, Esas mortíferas enfermedades rebosa de información.¡La ciencia nunca ha sido tan divertida!

Available through:    Amazon     Addall.com

Summer Reading: After 4th Grade

Summer Reading List for after 4th grade (incoming 5th graders)

Kike
Perera
ISBN-10: 8434812886

Grade 4-8 A fascinating novel of the Hispanic immigrant experience in the United States. While this is a historical story of Cuban immigrants, it could be the story of any Latin American immigrant child. The difficulties and misunderstandings and the challenges of adjustment and sheer survival in the United States are told with humor and empathy in this first-person narrative. The style is idiomatic, often very funny, and down-to-earth, and will capture the attention of young readers.

Available through: Amazon    Palo Alto Library    Mountain View Library

 

Summer Reading: After 3rd Grade

Look for the Summer Reading List for Exiting 3rd Graders  (Incoming 4th  Graders) on the SIPAPA bookstore.

Here's the full list and where to get them - Amazon, Palo Alto & Mountain View libraries.

Geronimo Stilton
series

Geronimo Stilton is a best-selling children's book series written by Geronimo Stilton. In the series, the title character is a talking mouse who lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island. A best-selling author, he works as a journalist for the fictional newspaper The Rodent's Gazette. He has a younger sister named Thea Stilton, a cousin named Trap Stilton, and a favorite nephew, nine-year-old Benjamin Stilton. Geronimo is a nervous, mild-mannered mouse who would like nothing better than to live a quiet life, but he keeps getting involved in far-away adventures with Thea, Trap, and Benjamin. The books are written as though they are autobiographical adventure stories. The original publisher is Edizioni Piemme in Milan, Italy. Scholastic, Inc. publishes the English language version.

The series originated in Italy and has become the most popular children's book series in that country. The books have been translated into 35 languages. Source: Wikipedia

Available through: Amazon    Mountain View Library

Summer Reading: After 2nd Grade

The Summer Reading list for After 2nd Grade (Incoming 3rd Graders) is now available at the SIPAPA bookstore.

Here's the full list and where to get them - Amazon, Palo Alto & Mountain View libraries.

This is the time when children start reading series books.  The following are among the most popular.

Junie B. Jones
Barbara Park
Series

Junie Beatrice Jones, Junie B. Jones or "Junie B." as she called for short, is a five-to six-year-old American girl. She hates shopping, except when the shopping is done in a supermarket. Junie B. loves ice cream, and her mother made it a rule for Junie not to yell at her for ice cream while at the supermarket.

Junie B., a first grade student, is very inquisitive, as she likes to ask her teacher (to whom she refers only as "Mr. Scary", who doesn't even scare her hardly) a lot of questions about every school subject. She fears challenges at times but mostly meets them successfully.

Junie B.'s best friends in kindergarten are Lucille, an upper-class girl who is accustomed to being pampered by her grandmother, and Grace (to whom Junie B. refers as "'that' Grace"), an ahtletic, African-American girl. The person she dislikes the most is "that meanie Jim," the class bully, whom she befriends on Valentine's when she is in kindergarten. In first grade her friends are most of the students in her class. Lucille is in Junie B.'s class, but she has made new friends with two twins. Her nemesis is May (she calls her Tattletale May). Source: wikipedia

Available through: Amazon    Mountain View Library

Summer Reading: After 1st Grade

Here's the full list for children entering 2nd grade and where to get them - Amazon, Palo Alto & Mountain View libraries.

Me gustaría tener
Flor Ada
ISBN-10: 1581051948

Me gustaria tener. . lists the various things ``I would like to have . . .'' Again in a counting - book format, the desired items all turn out to be animals involved in unusual activities (e.g. two giraffes reading with glasses).

Available through:  Amazon    Palo Alto Library

¿Quien nacerá aquí?
Flor Ada
ISBN-10: 1581051972
Out of Print
Rhyming riddles ask which animal will hatch from different eggs. The eggs are presented in their natural habitats; both illustrations and text hint at the answers.

Available through:  Amazon

Summer Reading: After Kindergarten

The Summer Reading list for After Kindergarten (Incoming 1st Graders) is now available at the SIPAPA bookstore.

Here's the full list and where to get them - Amazon, Palo Alto & Mountain View libraries.

Harry el Perrito Sucio / Harry the Dirty Dog
Clay

ISBN-10: 0064434435

Harry es un perrito blanco con manchas negras al que todo le gusta . . . excepto bañarse. Así que un día antes del baño, Harry se escapa. Se pasa el día, jugando en la calle y pronto está tan sucio que se convierte en un perro negro con manchas blancas. Ahora Harry tiene un problema: ¡su propia familia no lo reconoce!

Get it at: Amazon    Palo Alto Library    Mountain View Library

Buenas Noches, luna (Goodnight Moon)
Brown & Hurd
ISBN-10:0590131591

Loyal to the original, this translation has retained the poetic and soothing tone that makes it a favorite read-aloud. It's as popular among Spanish readers as its original always has been among English readers.

Get it at: Amazon    Mountain View Library

Maestra Sandoval's Summer Reading Picks

Me gustaría tener by Alma Flor Ada,

For ages 4-8; 16 pages; part of the Libros para contar series; beautifully illustrated book

¿Quién nacerá aquí? by Alma Flor Ada

For ages 4-8; 24 pages; part of the Libros para contar series;

A charming series, illustrated with watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings. The stories are told in a humorous style and are enhanced throughout by Ada's gift for language and poetry. El Canto . . . is the droll story of a frog who eats a mosquito and whose song then sounds like that of a mosquito. The frog is eaten by a fish, who then sings like a mosquito, etc.

La noche de las tortugas by Liusella Grondona

21 pages;

Mis primeros poemas y canciones by Lourdes Soto

Scholastic ISBN 0-590-51908-5; this book appears to be out of print

Siempre te querré by Hans Wilhelm

PreSchool-Grade 3– A picture-book story in which a beloved dog becomes sick and eventually dies. The young boy who narrates the story is consoled by the fact that every night before bed he had told his dog, “I will always love you.”

Las gallinas no son las unicas by Ruth Heller

Ages 4-8; 32 pages;  (Science/Health)
Readers learn that not only chickens but birds, reptiles, fish, and insects also lay eggs.