This moving tale introduces the youngest picture book audience to a girl who misses her grandmother-whom she calls Tata or Tatita, as is traditional in many Spanish-speaking cultures-and yearns to spend time with her. But Tatita is not here any more. The spare, striking illustrations make it ambiguous whether the girl misses her tata because she lives in a faraway place, is ill, or has passed on. Yet this gorgeous, deceptively simple book's ending...

Examina las vidas y los logros de Marco Polo, Ernest Shackleton, Amelia Earhart, Thor Heyerdahl y Neil Armstrong, y explica por qué su coraje y tenacidad los han convertido en leyendas. Examines the lives and accomplishments of Marco Polo, Ernest Shackleton, Amelia Earhart, Thor Heyerdahl, and Neil Armstrong, and explains why their courage and tenacity have made them legends.