From Pura Belpré 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 .
The little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his special songs to sell all kinds of fruit: mango , limón , naranja , piña , 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..
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...
From Pura Belpré 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
