{"title":"Kathleen Contreras","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"harvesting-friends-cosechando-amigos-book-kathleen-contreras-9781558858589","title":"Harvesting Friends\/Cosechando Amigos","description":"Young Lupe loves helping her mother with their salsa garden full of tomatoes, chile peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro. But one summer day, she sees that the biggest, juiciest tomatoes have disappeared! Who could have taken them?!? \u003cp\u003e Two weeks later, she catches the culprit in the act! It's Antonio, the new boy at school. His family doesn't have much money and the tomatoes look so good. He offers his gold necklace from his grandmother in Mexico in exchange for the tomatoes, but Lupe has a better idea. Let's make a deal. You help me with the garden, and I'll give back your necklace and some tomatoes. They become friends over the summer as they weed, water and pick vegetables. When the growing season ends and they have composted the leaves and stems, Lupe happily returns Antonio's necklace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The following year, Lupe and Antonio invite their neighbors to help with the garden. Soon everyone is pitching in to grow fruit and vegetables for salsa and much more, from tomatoes to watermelon, and squash, beans and corn--America's first crops. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Including easy-to-make recipes, this bilingual picture book for children ages 4-8 will have them clamoring for a garden of their own to plant and harvest. Along the way, young readers--and the adults in their lives too--will learn that coming together as a community will enable them to harvest more than just vegetables.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940576993553,"sku":"CIN155885858XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037487005969,"sku":"NIN9781558858589","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/155885858X.jpg?v=1750861542"},{"product_id":"pan-dulce-spanish-edition-book-kathleen-contreras-9780590293846","title":"Pan dulce (Spanish Edition)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50135353295121,"sku":"CIN0590293842G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51295907709201,"sku":"CIN0590293842VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0590293842.jpg?v=1750846660"},{"product_id":"braids-trencitas-book-kathleen-contreras-9781933032276","title":"Braids\/Trencitas","description":"This bilingual story shows the importance of family and of reading, while also emphasizing the rewards of passing along cultural traditions. Beautiful illustrations portray the moving story of Bela and her grandma, who love to tell stories, braid hair, and play lotera with the family: Our stories, like our braids, bind us forever.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395484258577,"sku":"CIN1933032278VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51519559991569,"sku":"NIN9781933032276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107686248721,"sku":"CIN1933032278G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53040620273937,"sku":"CIN1933032278A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1933032278.jpg?v=1750835686"},{"product_id":"sweet-memories-book-kathleen-contreras-9781933032917","title":"Sweet Memories","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403118842129,"sku":"CIN193303291XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193303291X.jpg?v=1751028766"},{"product_id":"born-to-play-beisbol-book-kathleen-contreras-9798988954125","title":"Born to Play Beisbol","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53667066609937,"sku":"NIN9798988954125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798988954125.jpg?v=1781467817"},{"product_id":"born-to-play-beisbol-book-kathleen-contreras-9798988954101","title":"Born to play Beisbol","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53667069427985,"sku":"NIN9798988954101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798988954101.jpg?v=1781467830"},{"product_id":"nacido-para-jugar-al-beisbol-book-kathleen-contreras-9798988954132","title":"Nacido para jugar al béisbol","description":"The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle A Tale of Tunstall Forest beginning in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature, vol. XI, no. 656 (Saturday, June 30, 1883) and ending in the issue for Saturday, October 20, 1883-Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer. It was printed under the pseudonym Captain George North. He alludes to the time gap between the serialization and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface Critic  parodying Dickens's 'Cricket'] on the Hearth: The tale was written years ago for a particular audience. The Paston Letters were Stevenson's main literary source for The Black Arrow.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53667075358993,"sku":"NIN9798988954132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798988954132.jpg?v=1781467856"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-kathleen-contreras.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}