Science Education (PreK-12)

From deep in the earth, to ocean, to morning dew, Agüita / Water, Little Water follows the life cycle of water from the perspective of one gotita – one little drop. Through Argueta’s poetry in Spanish, English and Nahuat, the language of his Pipil-Nahua ancestors, we see how Agüita becomes a river, a lake, and ocean.

Hello Ocean / Hola Mar follows a young girl as her every sense is awash in what the ocean and beach have to offer touch, smell, sight – and a simple sense of adventure. Once again, author Pam Muñoz Ryan and translator Yanitzia Canetti collaborate on composing rich rhyming text in both English and Spanish.

In Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña we see again how just one, seemingly so small, is part of this interconnected web of life. This the is the true tale of a little girl, Valentina Cruz. She lived her childhood on her family farm on Floreana, one of the Galapagos Islands, where she bopped up and down with lava lizards, stamped her feet with blue-footed boobies, and twirled pirouettes with sea lions. When she leaves the island to attend school, she promises the creatures, “I will not forget you… And I will keep you safe / No los olvidaré – y ayudaré a protegerlos.” We learn in the Author’s Notes that Cruz became a biologist, and returns to the Islands where she now works on ecological restoration, research, and tourism.