 Hi guys, this is Ms. Chenda from Bop Library. Hi, I'm Yustinea from the Billie Jean King Library. And welcome to Picture This. For each month, we will show you picture books that are new or interesting for the month on the second Wednesday of every month. So for September, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, where we are featuring Latinx authors titles or bilingual in Spanish and English. And we're going to show you some of our really good recommendation and also how to find it on our catalog. So Ms. Chenda is going to start us out with her first pick. What do you have for us? I have Lucia de Luchadora and the Million Mass. And it's by Cynthia Leonor Garza. So this is actually a second book in this series. And Lucia has a little sister named Gemma. And Gemma wants to be a Luchadora like her. But Gemma ruins Lucia's mask while they're playing. And Abuela, which is grandma in Spanish, takes them to the Mercado. And Mercado is a market. And it's not just any pretty market. You have to find out when you get this book. And in that market, the Mercado, the sisters have an adventure together. This is a wonderful book and has really great illustrations inside. Oh, I just opened it to the Mercado, see? You don't usually get to see that at a supermarket. We have like music and it's an open market. Yes, it's beautiful. So you'll find out the adventure that they have once you read this. And maybe you'll find out if Gemma becomes a Luchadora or not. So this one's a good book. What about you, Chenda? I have Galapagos Girl. It is by Marcia Diane Arnold. And I like this one. I'm picking this one because I'm practicing my Spanish. And this is a bilingual book because it has both English and Spanish, right? One right under the other so that I can read and practice on the words that I don't know. So this character is based on a true person. Her name is Valentina Cruz. And she was born on the Galapagos Island that had a lot. And she has 11 brothers and sisters. There they are. Oh, that's a fun family. Oh my goodness. It's such a wonderful family. And it shows her growing up on the island of Galapagos swimming. And she's swimming with all the sea creatures and going around with all the animals. And she's really loving her island. And as she grew up, she went to university. But then she came back and became a biologist because she loved her island and wanted to see the animals and the life on the island and shared it as a nature guide with visitors from around the world. So here she is as a young lady guiding people through the island and educating them how to be more conscious of the animals and the wildlife that's on the island. It's really beautiful. And here's a tortoise. And then here she is in the magical world of the Galapagos Island. And if you want to know more about her, you can read about her on the author's note in Spanish and in English. And it's really wonderful. It's truly inspirational of how, you know, you can become and get to kind of save the world that you live in. It's really beautiful. So I recommend Galapagos girls. Oh, that's a really nice one. I like that one. Sorry. Oops, what happened? Okay. Let me go to the next one. Yeah, no, I know it because I know that you are learning your Spanish. So I wanted to bring up some awesome books about that. Well, this one is a beautiful illustrator and author. His name is Duncan Toneteal. He's really, he started out as an illustrator and I love his illustration. And he's illustrated many, many books like The Princess and the Warrior. And then this one is a really good subject that he did, Soldier for Equality. It's about Jose de la Luz Seniz in the Great War. And then he has another one. This one is Poncho Rapid and the Coyote, A Migrant's Tale. And I love his illustration. But one of my favorite, favorite book that he's written is these two. It's Danza. And it's about Amelia Hernandez and the Albelle Florico de Mexico. So she founded the foundation for Mexican folk dance. And it's really wonderful to read about and how she became influenced by different dances. But she went back to her heritage and founded the dance party. But my most fun favorite read by Duncan, I keep saying his name. Toneteal is this one, De Primo. I like it best because it's all in Spanish. So I'm learning my Spanish really well. And he has these great illustration that has Spanish word on it. And it's about two little boy, one name, Carlitos. And then that's the one that lives in Mexico. And then his cousin, Charlie. And I love how Charlie writes to his cousin in Spanish. But then there's some word that he doesn't know in Spanish. He writes it in English, which is really, really wonderful to read and share. And I hope you guys have someone who can write letters to and practice your Spanish. If you have a chance, there it is. There's a picture showing the kids playing in Mexico. Mucho juegos como los trampos y las conicas. So there's a trampo. I guess it's like a spin, a top. And then conicas, I don't know, it's like a triangle with marbles. And papalote is pipeline. So I'm learning my Spanish, but I'm trying to also see what they're writing about. Those are my two recommendations, my favorite ones. But there's many favorite by Duncan. Tonato. What about Dinea? Good. Well, I have three books that I want to share. And then after that, we're going to show them how to find bilingual books, because I know that you're, I'm so excited about that. And I will keep wanting to talk about that. But we'll talk about that later at the end. Well, let's get to my other books. So we are in October. So there's Have Meen and Dance De Los Muertos. And so I thought this would be a really fun book to read. It's A Just A Minute. And it's by Yuri Morales. It's a trickster tale and counting book. So I found this book in our Folk Tales and Fairy Tales section. And the story is about a grandmother who tricks a skeleton, seeing her in Galavera and waiting for him to take him with her. So he wants to take him with her. But it looks like there's a special celebration that's going to be happening. And so she keeps telling him to wait just a minute. And in that, so it's an English but it's a counting book with English and in Spanish. So you can learn the numbers one through 10 in this book. And it's, again, like the illustrations are always beautiful in all the books that we have. And it's a wonderful story about grandma, even though she's tricking him, the ending is very sweet. You'll see. And another book by Yuri Morales is another book. It's a true story. It's in our picture books as dreamers. And this was, it's an immigrant story of her and her child. It's actually a story that she's written of a love of a mother to her child of being afraid in their new place and finding comfort in the library. So the library played a very big part in her, in her, I guess when she came here, yeah, so it's got lots of words. And the library helped her to learn how to read, speak, and write in English. And look at what she has done. She wrote a book. So I mean, she's done so much. And if you again, like, like the other books that you have talked about, if you want to know about or read about the author, there's a little, uh, my story about her in the back of the book. So it's a really wonderful book. And I hope you guys check this one out. But my last one is Alma and how she got her name. So this story is about a young girl who's asking her father why her name is so long. And I'll tell you her name. But this book is by Juana Martinez-Neal. And it's a Caldecott book. And so she tells the story. So I'm going to show you her name. It's really long. It's Alma, Sophia, Esperanza, Jose, Pura, Candela. I had to double check. So it's a really long name. But there's a reason why the father chose these names because there's a significance for each of the names. It was a family members that had the same. So I thought this was a really good book for people who are curious about their name. Why? My name is very long, too. And I just love this book because sometimes there's a meaning to names and or my, like, well, for me, my parents chosen them because they found this name very nice with my hand, who had a very good student. And they wanted to name me after the student. What about you, Chenda? Well, my name is very short. It's just Chenda and Young. My name, I'm from Cambodia. So my name, Chenda, means heart. And it's a name that's actually unisex. That means a boy, and a girl can have, can have my name. So it's Chenda, which just means heart to my mom. That's really sweet. Okay, so now our last part is to show people how to search for bilingual books or Spanish books in our catalogue. All right, I'm going to show you. We're going to see if Ms. Denea can look up this book for us. How do you say, Como se dice? So this book is in, yay, that was really fast. This book is by Angela Dominguez. And it's in Spanish and in English. Very simple. But I want to see how, how can I find other books by the same author? Okay, so what I did is I typed in the title in the search bar and I hit enter, which is that triangle. And then so the first, the title comes up and you're going to see, how do you say, equal sign, Como se dice? So the equal sign lets you know that it's bilingual. And then now we want to see more books by this author. So you're going to go down and you're going to click on the author. And oh, there you go. Okay. And if it's really slow, you can always count in Spanish. We'll see how long it takes. So it shows English and Spanish books or bilingual books, but we just want to search for Spanish books. So for that, we're going to narrow it down. So when you want to narrow it down, you go to refine by, and we have all these options to help you narrow down a search. And you're going to click on Spanish. And there you go. Oh, nice. There you go. I see, Como estas? How are you? So I can request that. Yeah. So Maria had a little llama. That's pretty cute. Yeah. So let's see. Oh, we can actually, if you click on the title, and if you're curious about what this book is about, you can click on the title and you scroll down. And usually, yes, it's a very short summary though, in this bilingual version of the classic rhyme Maria takes her llama to school one day. So depending on the title, I mean the sometimes a summary can be long or it can be really short, but it lets you know what it is. And and if you are interested in it, you can hit the request button. So I'm going to hit request. I'm already signed into my account. So you have to have a library card to be able to check out and to request anything. And in the drop down menu, it will show you which libraries are doing curbside pickup, because we have some branches that are not and it will let you know it says close. So don't pick the ones that are that says close. So I'm going to click pick the name library. And I'm going to hit submit. And there you go. I request it is very easy. So make sure you know which library you want it sent to. And that's the only hard part, I guess. What if I don't have a title and author, Mr. Nair, can I just search for a picture book? Yes. So that's all you have to do is like, you're going to type into the picture. I'm sorry, the search bar, picture book. And and then so we have a bunch of picture books. We have, wow, 24,339 picture books. Oh no, but I only want the one in Spanish. Okay, so we're going to narrow it down again. So we're going to go down to language. And we have different languages. So if you want something different other than Spanish, you can click on that. So we're just going to click on Spanish, right? This example. And there we go. You have bilingual and Spanish books. It's very useful if you go to Patrick Henry elementary school and you're learning in the dual immersion class, you're taking Spanish classes, and you need to practice your Spanish. It's a great way to pick a book and read one per day. Oh, that's a good idea. Nice to hear another book, Mr. Nair. Sure. Okay. So in honor of not just this month, but it's just a wonderful book to read. But this is a book about Sonia Sotomayor, our Supreme Court Justice. It's by Jonah Winter. And I hope you guys give it a, it's a, it's a actual biography in Spanish, but it's also in English. So it's bilingual. And I love how she loves to read. And she was a little girl and her mom, and her favorite author, her favorite series is the Nancy Drew Mystery Novels. But you know what? She also has a set of encyclopedias that her mom bought for her by saving money. And she actually goes through and read them. She's really a wonderful reader. And she was such a wonderful reader that her grades were so good that when she graduated, she actually got accepted to Princeton University. And she studied law and became a judge. And then later on Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, nominated her to the Supreme Court Justice. It's really wonderful. And my favorite part is when she was inducted as the Supreme Court Justice, her mom cried and cried. And she keeps saying, this is, this is my, this was my daughter. This is her daughter. So she's so proud of her. And I'm happy to read about her. So she's one of the first nations, first Latin American, some Supreme Court Justice. Ay, bonito. So it's really good. And I hope you guys read and find out more about her. Okay. Okay, well, thank you for joining us. Or do you have another one to share? No, I shared all of mine. I do have some other ones that I'm going to put in our list. If you go to picture this 1020, if you search for it, like how we typed in picture books, or the title of the books, and you will find more books that we may have found and didn't get to talk about today. And that list, and you can request it and read it. And hopefully we, you love it. It's like as much as we loved reading these books. And yes, I guess we'll see you next month. And don't forget that also the main library is having some great programs with the Vita Latina Programming. So be sure to check out on our website for other programming that celebrate our National Hispanic Heritage Month. So we hope to see you guys. We hope the live you guys stay safe. And we hope to see you someday soon. And so this is goodbye from Ms. Chenda at Falk Library. Bye. I'm Ms. Tanaia from the Billie Jean King main library. So we'll see you soon. Bye.