num_pages: 40
description: From Pura Belpr Awardwinning 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 Cubaand helping him sell his frutas .When we visit mi abuelo  I help him sellfrutas  singing the names of each fruitas we walk our footsteps like drumbeatsour hands like maracas shakingThe little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his special songs to sell all kinds of mango  limn  naranja  pia  and more! Even when theyre apart grandfather and granddaughter can share rhymes between their countries like un abrazo a hugmade of words carried on letters that soar across the distance like songbirds.
language: English
title: A Song of Frutas
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers