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(Spanish) En el comienzo hay luz, y dos siluetas de grandes ojos al pie de tu cuna, y el sonido de sus voces es amor. (English) In the beginning there is light, and two silhouettes of big eyes at the foot of your crib, and the sound of their voices is love. A 2019 Bank Street Best Children's Picture Book of the Year in Spanish En el comienzo hay luz, y dos siluetas de grandes ojos al pie de tu cuna, y el sonido de sus voces es amor. Amor es la melodia que nos acompana todos y cada uno de los dias de nuestra vida. Ya sea el suave arrullo de nuestros padres a la hora de dormir, la risa divertida que provoca un cuento inventado por nuestro tio o el abrazo calido de un ser querido que nos tranquiliza, es un sentimiento que toma diferentes formas y un lazo que nos une a todos. En esta emotiva celebraci n del amor, Matt de la Pena, autor ganador de la Medalla Newbery, y Loren Long, renombrado ilustrador y de gran exito en ventas, describen las diferentes maneras en que experimentamos este vinculo universal. Con emotivas ilustraciones y un susurrante texto lirico, esta tierna historia nos brinda tranquilidad y tambien un nuevo clasico que calara hondo en los lectores de todas las edades.

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Praise for Amor A 2019 Bank Street Best Children's Picture Book of the Year in Spanish Praise for Love #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Indie Bestseller A Winter 2017-2018 Kids' Indie Next Top Pick Five Starred Reviews An Amazon Best of the Year Pick 2018 - Ages 3-5 A Time Magazine Best Children's Book of 2018 An NPR Best Book of 2018 Accompanied by Loren Long's charming illustrations, this book, also available in Spanish, celebrates how love exists in the ordinary and why we should treasure moments, big and small, with the people in our lives. --Time Magazine [A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving. --People Magazine Everything that can be called love -- from shared joy to comfort in the darkness -- is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book. --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review Lyrical and sensitive, 'Love' is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling. --The Wall Street Journal De la Pe a's prose poem speaks right to young children. . . . People often talk to children about love; in these pages, they can see and feel what it's like. And there's plenty for everybody. --Publishers Weekly, starred review This book looks into the darkness and still finds stars twinkling overhead. --The New York Times Book Review From the moment prose and art appear in the opening spread, de la Pe a and Long usher readers into a patient, pensive meditation on love. . . . Timely, timeless, and utterly necessary. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Newbery Award-winning De la Pe a offers a lyrical ode to love in this stirring picture book. . . . In De la Pe a's lines, love becomes not just an emotion between people but a feeling suffusing the world. --Booklist Long and Matt de la Pe a . . . hit the mark with Love . . . a gentle, poetic picture book about love in all circumstances, even the tough ones. --Shelf Awareness This heartfelt and sensitively rendered picture book meditation begs to be shared and discussed with children . . . Spread the love. --School Library Journal, starred review An exquisitely written and illustrated picture book that speaks of how love, even when it's difficult to recognize, can percolate up through the most common of daily circumstances. --The Horn Book, starred review Love - it's an abstract emotion, right? Not even close. These pictures and words describe a zillion ways to think of love . . . For readers, this book is a lifelong challenge to ask: What is love? And how can we create more of it in what we think and do and say? --Justine Kenin, producer, All Things Considered, in NPR's Book Concierge Guide to 2018's Great Reads

Praise for Amor A 2019 Bank Street Best Children's Picture Book of the Year in Spanish Praise for Love #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Indie Bestseller A Winter 2017-2018 Kids' Indie Next Top Pick Five Starred Reviews An Amazon Best of the Year Pick 2018 - Ages 3-5 A Time Magazine Best Children's Book of 2018 An NPR Best Book of 2018 Accompanied by Loren Long's charming illustrations, this book, also available in Spanish, celebrates how love exists in the ordinary and why we should treasure moments, big and small, with the people in our lives.--Time Magazine [A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving.--People Magazine Everything that can be called love -- from shared joy to comfort in the darkness -- is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book.--The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review Lyrical and sensitive, 'Love' is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling. --The Wall Street Journal De la Pena's prose poem speaks right to young children. . . . People often talk to children about love; in these pages, they can see and feel what it's like. And there's plenty for everybody.--Publishers Weekly, starred review This book looks into the darkness and still finds stars twinkling overhead. --The New York Times Book Review From the moment prose and art appear in the opening spread, de la Pena and Long usher readers into a patient, pensive meditation on love. . . . Timely, timeless, and utterly necessary. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Newbery Award-winning De la Pena offers a lyrical ode to love in this stirring picture book. . . . In De la Pena's lines, love becomes not just an emotion between people but a feeling suffusing the world. --Booklist Long and Matt de la Pena . . . hit the mark with Love . . . a gentle, poetic picture book about love in all circumstances, even the tough ones. --Shelf Awareness This heartfelt and sensitively rendered picture book meditation begs to be shared and discussed with children . . . Spread the love.--School Library Journal, starred review An exquisitely written and illustrated picture book that speaks of how love, even when it's difficult to recognize, can percolate up through the most common of daily circumstances. --The Horn Book, starred review Love - it's an abstract emotion, right? Not even close. These pictures and words describe a zillion ways to think of love . . . For readers, this book is a lifelong challenge to ask: What is love? And how can we create more of it in what we think and do and say?--Justine Kenin, producer, All Things Considered, in NPR's Book Concierge Guide to 2018's Great Reads

Praise for Amor: A 2019 Bank Street Best Children's Picture Book of the Year in Spanish Praise for Love: #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Indie Bestseller A Winter 2017-2018 Kids' Indie Next Top Pick Five Starred Reviews An Amazon Best of the Year Pick 2018 - Ages 3-5 A Time Magazine Best Children's Book of 2018 An NPR Best Book of 2018 Accompanied by Loren Long's charming illustrations, this book, also available in Spanish, celebrates how love exists in the ordinary and why we should treasure moments, big and small, with the people in our lives. -Time Magazine [A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving. -People Magazine Everything that can be called love - from shared joy to comfort in the darkness - is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book. -The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review Lyrical and sensitive, 'Love' is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling. -The Wall Street Journal De la Pena's prose poem speaks right to young children. . . . People often talk to children about love; in these pages, they can see and feel what it's like. And there's plenty for everybody. -Publishers Weekly, starred review This book looks into the darkness and still finds stars twinkling overhead. -The New York Times Book Review From the moment prose and art appear in the opening spread, de la Pena and Long usher readers into a patient, pensive meditation on love. . . . Timely, timeless, and utterly necessary. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Newbery Award-winning De la Pena offers a lyrical ode to love in this stirring picture book. . . . In De la Pena's lines, love becomes not just an emotion between people but a feeling suffusing the world. -Booklist Long and Matt de la Pena . . . hit the mark with Love . . . a gentle, poetic picture book about love in all circumstances, even the tough ones. -Shelf Awareness This heartfelt and sensitively rendered picture book meditation begs to be shared and discussed with children . . . Spread the love. -School Library Journal, starred review An exquisitely written and illustrated picture book that speaks of how love, even when it's difficult to recognize, can percolate up through the most common of daily circumstances. -The Horn Book, starred review Love - it's an abstract emotion, right? Not even close. These pictures and words describe a zillion ways to think of love . . . For readers, this book is a lifelong challenge to ask: What is love? And how can we create more of it in what we think and do and say? -Justine Kenin, producer, All Things Considered, in NPR's Book Concierge Guide to 2018's Great Reads

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Matt de la Pena es el autor de eltima parada de la calle Market, que gan la Medalla Newbery por la edici n en ingles. Es tambien el autor de Los deseos de Carmela; A Nation's Hope- The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, y de seis aclamadas novelas para j venes adultos. Matt ensena Escritura Creativa y visita colegios y universidades por todo el pais para hablar con los estudiantes. Matt vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Loren Long es el autor e ilustrador de la serie Otis, de gran exito en ventas segon el New York Times. Es tambien el ilustrador de Of Thee I Sing de Barack Obama, que fue nomero uno en ventas segon las listas del New York Times, y del clasico The Little Engine That Could, de Watty Piper, reilustrado con su arte. Vive cerca de Cincinnati con su esposa, dos hijos y dos bracos de Weimar.

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