Mariana Ruiz Johnson

• Sep-2014
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In this touching, hopeful story that reads like a modern classic, a young girl befriends a bear in the zoo. He comes from far, far away, a place he calls the Land of the Bears, where the food is sweet and the land is vast. It is a wondrous home, wher...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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While you are sleeping, does the rest of the world sleep, too? Not everyone. In this dreamy book, which won the 2015 Silent Book Contest at the prestigious Bologna Children's Book Fair, Mariana Ruiz Johnson conjures up the ordinary yet extraordin...

• May-2022
• / General Fiction
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One night under the acacia trees, Kibo writes a story about home. His neighbor Naki reads his words, binds them into a book, and brings it to the city. There Camilo devours Kibo’s story, remembering his childhood in the savannah. The next day he sh...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction
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"A comparison can be made to Richard Scarry’s famous Busytown books; there’s always something going on in each corner of the picture." —School Library Journal  Welcome to the Village of Villa Verde where there are a...