Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places! Tiny City, Big City by Tim Miller

Nothing is so lost as a very small kitten in the big city. The sidewalks are owned by lots of legs, gazillions of feet, all trying to get where they are going. The streets are full of swishy, honky cars, all trying to get where they are going. Speedy kitty dodges among the shoes and crosses streets, hiding from the shrill, clanging firetruck and yowling back at a trio of barking dogs, pulling at their leashes.

He climbs on top of one of the library lions, eluding the dogs.

BRAVE KITTY.

Between one stone lion's sun-warmed paws, he takes a catnap.

But even brave kitties get hungry, and a fishmonger makes him a lunch of sardines. Kitty chases the pigeons, who scold him for interrupting their lunches on the sidewalk, until snow begins to fall. As the sidewalks turn white with a light snow, the sun sets, and the kitty sits down with the people listening to a street jazz band play.

SINGING KITTY

The crowd applauds the kitty, and as one boy strokes his head, he purrs.

And soon there's a kind family with one newly contented calico kitty, in Tim Miller's loving story of a formerly homeless kitty with a new home, Tiny Kitty, Big City (Balzer and Bray, 2021). Miller's simple, childlike blackline illustrations appear spot-art style on otherwise white pages, or fill colorful double-page spreads with Where's Waldo-type crowd scenes, where savvy kids will spot the boy who finally takes Kitty home. In a celebration of the sights and sounds of city life, author-illustrator Miller's brief text and beautifully simple illustrations tell the old story of a lost and found kitten, a tiny creature who finds loving care in the midst of the busy city. Says School Library Journal, "This clever book will appeal to all children, as adventure, beginning reader, or even as an inviting cityscape to pore over."

De Aguas Frescas a Las Zarzamoras: Vamos! Let's Go Eat! by Raul the Third

"LITTLE LOBO! AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM EL TORO!"

Little Lobo has a new pedal-powered food cart and is ready to make fast deliveries. And just in time!

Little Lobo has a message from the famous wrestler El Toro, getting ready for the big luchador contest at El Coliseo, the Coliseum. It seems like everyone else in town is making his way there, too, especially all the food trucks with their different delicious dishes! Inside the huge building El Toro is busy warming up with the other competitors--Lizarda, Armor Dillo, Jack-a-Lopez, Ay Chihuahua, and the rest.

Suddenly there is a loud RUMBLE!

"JUST IN TIME! WE KNEW WE COULD COUNT ON YOU, LITTLE LOBO!" EL TORO BELLOWED. "OUR BELLIES ARE HUNGRY!"

Little Lobo hurries back to the front of the Coliseo where all the food vendors are assembled in food trucks, wagons, pushcarts, pedal carts, ready to sell their wares. There is so much to choose! SALSAS, AVOCADOS, JICAMAS, TORTOS DE LIMON, BURRITOS, TAMALES, TACOS, CHURROS, POLLO CON ARROZ, TACOS, FLAUTAS, CARNITOAS, QUESADILLAS, DULCES, AGUAS FRESCAS, EVEN KIMCHI! So many choices!

Little Lobo loads his cart with some of everything, algo de todo, and pedals furiously back inside where the hungry lachadores are waiting for their luncheon. They cannot compete until they eat!

"AQUI' ESTA' LA COMIDA! "Here is the meal!"

Little Lobo's new delivery bike is a success, in Raul the Third's food fest, ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat (Spanish and English Edition) (Versify Press,, 2020). Done up in bright, tropical colors by artist Elaine Bay, the food is up front and festive enough itself to get everybody ready for a spot of lunch with the luchadores. And with its handy glossary at the back of this book, anyone can order con much gusto! "... distinctive -—and delicious," says Publishers Weekly, in their starred review.

Raul The Third was awarded the American Library Association's prestigious Pura Belpre' Award for his first book, ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market (Spanish and English Edition).