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  • Este Es Un Cuento (Este Es Nuestro Mundo)

Este Es Un Cuento
(Este Es Nuestro Mundo)

Author
John Schu
Illustrator
Lauren Castillo
Publication Date
January 06, 2026
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Language
Spanish
Format
Picture Book
Este Es Un Cuento (Este Es Nuestro Mundo)
Description

Un cuento puede empezar con unas palabras en una página, pero evoluciona y se convierte en mucho más.

Un cuento es una forma de explorar nuevas ideas, reunir a las personas y ayudar a darle sentido al mundo. Los cuentos quizá empiecen con poco, pero pueden crecer infinitamente... y, sobre todo, también pueden hacerlo sus lectores.

John Schu, uno de los maestros y bibliotecarios más queridos de Estados Unidos, celebra las maravillas de la lectura, inspirándose en su experiencia como campeón global de la literatura infantil. Con las ilustraciones cálidas e invitadoras de Lauren Castillo, artista ganadora de una mención de Honor Caldecott, Este es un cuento revela el gozo personal que pueden ofrecer los libros e invita a los lectores a explorar la magia.

Publication date
January 06, 2026
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
40
ISBN-13
9781536250640
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Series
Este Es Nuestro Mundo
Universe
This Is Our World
BISAC categories
JUV047000 - Juvenile Fiction | Books & Libraries
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV039090 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience

School Library Journal

Starred Review

A young girl, her younger sibling, and their father make their way to the library, where there might be a special book waiting. After a brief pitstop at the park to fly the girl's seahorse kite, the family enters a building full of books where a librarian hands the girl a special title about seahorses. Around the library, other young readers are enjoying their own books, their minds full of questions, ideas, imagination, and hope for the future. The protagonist goes on to find wonderful stories to take home from the library and share with her younger sibling. Short Spanish sentences make up the text, often only featuring few words per spread. The soft and pleasing illustrations rendered in ink, watercolor, and pastel, bring the beauty of books and libraries to life: highlighting the beautiful day outside, zooming in on a word in a book, and showing young patrons surrounded by volumes that, if readers look closely, can be identified as real titles. The book's characters are diverse, with varied skin tones. VERDICT A delightful book about the life-changing magic of stories and the libraries that hold them, this Spanish-language picture book is a must-have for children's collections.

Copyright 2025 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
John Schu
John Schu is the author of the acclaimed picture books This Is a School, illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison, and This Is a Story, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo. He also wrote the adult study The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life and was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker for his dynamic interactions with students and his passionate adoption of new technologies as a means of connecting authors, illustrators, books, and readers. Children's librarian for Bookelicious, part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, and former Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs, Mr. Schu--as he is affectionately known--continues to travel the world to share his love of books. He lives in Naperville, Illinois. You can find him at www.JohnSchu.com and on social media @MrSchuReads.

John Schu es el autor de los aclamados libros ilustrados Esta es una escuela, ilustrado por Veronica Miller Jamison, y Este es un cuento, ilustrado por la galardonada con el Honor Caldecott Lauren Castillo. También escribió el estudio para adultos The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life y fue nombrado "Mover and Shaker" por el Library Journal por sus interacciones dinámicas con los estudiantes y su apasionada adopción de nuevas tecnologías como medio para conectar a autores, ilustradores, libros y lectores. Bibliotecario infantil de Bookelicious, profesor a tiempo parcial en la Universidad de Rutgers y antiguo Embajador de las Bibliotecas Escolares para las Ferias del Libro de Scholastic, el Sr. Schu —como se le conoce afectuosamente— continúa viajando por el mundo para compartir su amor por los libros. Vive en Naperville, Illinois. Puedes encontrarlo en www.JohnSchu.com y en las redes sociales @MrSchuReads.
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