Although he loves to help Grandpa pick fresh fruit, Oliver will not eat any until one day Mom prepares something very special in a big glass bowl.

Danilo, a fruit-seller in Sicily, leads a peaceful and contented life until he finds unusual trees with magical fruit and faces unexpected consequences.

An easy-to-read celebration of fruits and their colors.

A hungry urchin cannot seem to pick the apples off a tree. He asks a bird and a giraffe for help in reaching the fruit without any success. He then decides to trick an elephant into helping him by stomping the ground. The vivid illustrations follow the hedgehog's trials and tribulations with a light and humorous style. Un erizo hambriento no logra agarrar las manzanas de un árbol. Le pide ayuda a un pájaro y a una jirafa, sin ningún éxito. Decide...

While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.

"Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas, pregonando los nombres de cada una mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos repican como tambores, nuestras manos, cual maracas, agitan las brillantes siluetas de las frutas mientras cantamos...con ritmo 'Mango limón coco melón naranja toronja plátano piña' ...Vivo lejos de abuelo, pero podemos cantar rimas de ida y vuelta entre nuestros dos países, nuestros versos en papel vuelan como aves cantoras,...