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Nacho and Lolita

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In this tender friendship story that will melt your heart, acclaimed storyteller Pam Munoz Ryan and talented newcomer Claudia Rueda reveal that any difference can be overcome with love.

Once, when the two Californias ran alta y baja, high and low, along the Pacific, there lived a rare and majestic bird named Nacho, the only pitacoche for thousands of miles. He was proud of his brilliant feathers and haunting songs, but what good were they with no one to share them?
Then the swallows came to nest and Nacho met Lolita. His heart filled with affection. Was it possible for two such different birds to find happiness together? And what would happen to Nacho when Lolita and the other swallows migrated back to South America?

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2005

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Format
40 pages, Hardcover
Published
October 1, 2005 by Scholastic Press
ISBN
9780439269681
ASIN
0439269687
Language
English

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Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, ECHO, a 2016 Newbery Honor Book, and winner of the Kirkus Prize. She has written over forty books for young people—picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. She the author recipient of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, the Willa Cather Award, the Pura Belpré medal, the PEN USA award, and many others. Her novels include Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi León, Paint the Wind, The Dreamer, and Echo. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, holds a bachelor's and master's degree from San Diego State University and lives in north San Diego county with her family.

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flyinggumm
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April 26,2025
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Excellent love story of friendship and compromise. Nacho tries to fly with his love, a migratory bird, but can not. To bring her back to him, he plucks his feathers to create color In this dry so Cal valley. This is a great book to teach friendship, change in weather patterns and conservation, or about different birds/migratory patterns.
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naruto_nutty
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April 26,2025
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Ryan's storybook, based (very!) loosely on a folktale she had heard as a child, is a delightful read. Nacho is a big, brightly colored bird whose songs captivate his small town as well as the swallows who migrate each year to the area. One of the swallows, Lolita, is particularly drawn to Nacho, and a little romance ensues. But Lolita must leave at the end of the season, and she warns Nacho that the swallows may not be able to find the town again. Nacho must make a great sacrifice if he ever hopes to see his true love again.

Claudia Rueda's illustrations are equally fun and beautiful, with cartoonish expressions on the birds' faces as well as delicately rendered landscapes. The story is charming and touching with a message of the great value of friendship. Ryan's note on the source is extremely important to read, as she describes how much she has embellished upon the original source material for the folktale. There are other texts that are more authentic Mexican or Californian folktales; this book is a deviation that still entertains and inspires.
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HeartlessMustard
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April 26,2025
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A brightly colored bird sacrifices his colors so that he can see his sparrow friends again.
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Tanooshii
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April 26,2025
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Me gustó el libro, nos enseña a que ayudar y pensar en los demás también es sano
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S_k_Roy
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April 26,2025
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Lovely children's book. I rate within the genre and it's a five.
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notsp1derman
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April 26,2025
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Offbeat and thought-provoking, this is a unique love story. It's a real heart opener.

Main characters here are -- you guessed it, Nacho is a specimen of junk food and Lolita is an enticing little girl who has previously been taken advantage of... by a peculiar man. (The less said about him the better.)

Kidding! This Nacho is a rare and majestic bird, a gorgeous pitacoche.

Then he meets a lovely swallow, Lolita.

Could the two birds have a future? They're so different from each other.

FIVE STARS, in honor of readers more sentimental than I.
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