Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras

Contributor(s): Rodríguez, Nelson (Author), Montes, Leonardo Agustín (Author), Faría, Rosana (Illustrator), Tabora, Carla (Illustrator), Schimel, Lawrence (Translator)

ISBN: 9780802856166

Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Hardcover

$17.99

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

Dewey: E

LCCN: 2023001277

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated

Target Age Group: 05 to 09

Physical Info: 0.60" H x 10.20" L x 10.80" W ( 1.00 lbs) 36 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Stories from Latin America (Sla)

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000550852 ( Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras)

Reading level: 5.20

Interest level: LG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: When a bookmobile visits Luis' neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he and the other children of Villa Nueva discover a joy they cannot help but bring back home.

Brief description: Nelson Rodríguez is a children's writer, music teacher, and performer, and the director of JustWorld International's Asociación Compartir mobile library project. Through a chain of serendipitous events, he met children's bookseller Leonardo Agustín Montes and began collaborating with him on children's stories. Colorful Mondays is their English-language debut.

Review Quotes: Booklist
"A natural companion read for Monica Brown's Waiting for the Biblioburro (2011)."