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  • A Thousand White Butterflies (English With Some Spanish)

A Thousand White Butterflies
(English With Some Spanish)

Author
Jessica Betancourt-Perez
Illustrator
Gina Maldonado
Publication Date
January 19, 2021
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
A Thousand White Butterflies (English With Some Spanish)
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Description

As if being new to the United States wasn't hard enough, Isabella's first day of school is canceled due to snow!

Isabella has recently arrived from Colombia with her mother and abuela. She misses Papa, who is still in South America. It's her first day of school, her make-new-friends day, but when classes are canceled because of too much snow, Isabella misses warm, green, Colombia more than ever. Then Isabella meets Katie and finds out that making friends in the cold is easier than she thought!

Publication date
January 19, 2021
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781580895774
Lexile Measure
480
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV039250 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
JUV030040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Immigrants
Snow
Language and languages
First day of school
Immigrant children
Colombian Americans
Jessica Betancourt-Perez
Jessica Betancourt-Pérez se crio en Palmira, Colombia, y en los Estados Unidos (a donde inmigró a los quince años). Tiene una maestría en sicología escolar y trabaja de sicóloga para un gran distrito escolar suburbano en York, Pensilvania.

Karen Lynn Williams tiene una maestría en educación para personas sordas. Vivió en África y en Haití. De niña tenía la ilusión de publicar libros a temprana edad, y creó un club de escritura a los diez años. Hoy es autora de catorce libros para niños.

Jessica Betancourt-Perez grew up in Palmira, Colombia, and the United States (immigrating at fifteen). She holds a master's degree in school psychology and currently works as a school psychologist in a large, suburban school district in York, Pennsylvania.

Karen Lynn Williams holds a master's degree in deaf education. She has lived in Africa and in Haiti. Karen had an early dream to be one of the youngest published authors, starting a writing club at ten. She is the author of fourteen books for children.

Gina Maldonado es una ilustradora, artista y diseñadora basada en Hong Kong. Estudió arquitectura y diseño de interiores en Colombia, México e Italia. Luego descubrió su gran pasión: el dibujo. Su trabajo es colorido y jovial y está inspirado por su amor a la naturaleza, su herencia latinoamericana y sus experiencias al residir en Europa y Asia. www.gina-maldonado.com

Gina Maldonado is an illustrator, artist and designer based in Hong Kong. She studied architecture and interior design in Colombia, Mexico, and Italy and then discovered her real passion--illustration. Her work is colourful and joyful, inspired by her love of nature, Latin American heritage and experiences of living in Europe and Asia.
www.gina-maldonado.com
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