# A Song of Frutas - Hardcover

by **Margarita Engle** (Author), **Sara Palacios** (Illustrator)

**From Pura Belpr Award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a _pregonero_\--a singing street vendor in Cuba--and helping him sell his _frutas_.**

_When we visit mi_ abuelo_, I help him sell_  
frutas_, singing the names of each fruit  
as we walk, our footsteps like drumbeats,  
our hands like maracas, shaking..._

The little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his special songs to sell all kinds of fruit: _mango_, _lim n_, _naranja_, _pi a_, and more Even when they're apart, grandfather and granddaughter can share rhymes between their countries like _un abrazo_\--a hug--made of words carried on letters that soar across the distance like songbirds.

### Author Biography

Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels _Rima's Rebellion_; _Your Heart, My Sky_; _With a Star in My Hand_; _The Surrender Tree_, a Newbery Honor winner; and _The Lightning Dreamer_. Her verse memoirs include _Soaring Earth_ and _Enchanted Air_, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include _Drum Dream Girl_, _Dancing Hands_, and _The Flying Girl_. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.

Sara Palacios is the recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for _Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match_ and the illustrator of several other picture books, including _A Song of Frutas_, _The Flying Girl_, and _Martina Has Too Many Tías._ Sara graduated with a degree in graphic design and went on to earn BFA and MFA degrees in illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. A native of Mexico, Sara now lives in San Francisco. Visit her at SaraPalaciosIllustrations.com.

**Number of Pages:** 40

**Dimensions:** 0.44 x 11.26 x 8.91 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** August 03, 2021

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Song of Frutas

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 4.1

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 17.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

## Variants

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