Block Party (Confetti Kids #3)

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By Gwendolyn Hooks, Shirley Ng-Benitez
Paperback: $10.95

In this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, the neighborhood is having a block party and Padma worries that her friends won’t like her mom’s lentil soup.

Front cover for Fiesta en el barrio (Confetti Kids #3) by Gwendolyn Hooks and Shirley Ng-Benitez
This book is also available in Spanish
Fiesta en el barrio (Confetti Kids #3)
By Gwendolyn Hooks, Shirley Ng-Benitez

Description

The neighborhood is having a block party where everyone is responsible for bringing a food dish. Padma is excited about the party until she learns that her mother is planning to bring lentil soup. Padma thinks soup is so boring! Everyone else will bring fun things like pizza or hot dogs. Plus Padma worries that her friends won’t like the soup–but to her delight, she discovers that they not only like the soup, they want to learn how to make it.

About the Creators

Gwendolyn Hooks

Gwendolyn Hooks is the author of Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas, which received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children. Thanks to her Air Force dad, she grew up in Texas and Washington in the United States, and in Italy. After teaching middle school math, Hooks decided to follow her passion and write books for children. Hooks lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her husband. Please visit her website at www.gwendolynhooks.com.

Shirley Ng-Benitez

Shirley Ng-Benitez is a Bay Area children’s book author/illustrator who has illustrated 35+ children’s books, and has a background in Graphic Design (GabbyandCo.com), and hand-lettering (American Greetings, Inc.). She works and experiments in traditional mediums including watercolor, gouache, pen&ink, oils, and painted & cut-paper collage. Her work draws from a deep wish to add more compassion and connection in the world through her art and stories. She founded @AWEtober on Instagram, an annual art auction fundraiser since ’20, whose efforts have raised tens of thousands for various organizations supporting victims of the California wildfires, and efforts in coral reef restoration around the globe. She lives with her family and two black cats, and is thrilled to be working on her debut picture book, DOWN, THROUGH, UP by Quill Tree Books, Winter ‘25. Please visit shirleyngbenitez.com for more.

Awards

  • CCBC Choices

    Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

Reviews

  • "This beginning reader distinguishes itself with its strong representation of children from a variety of cultures, addressing the need for greater diversity in this format. VERDICT A strong addition for all libraries serving new and emerging readers."

    - School Library Journal
  • "An earnest and conscientious effort to add diversity to new readers' choices."

    - Kirkus Reviews

Paperback

  • ISBN 9781620143421
  • Price $10.95
  • Publication Date Mar 01, 2017
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.1875 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 84
  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 9781620143414
  • Price $14.95
  • Publication Date Mar 01, 2017
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.5625 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Interests

  • Imprint Lee & Low Books
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Cooking & Food
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / People & Places / United States / Asian American
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
  • Themes Asian / Asian American / AAPI, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Collaboration, Courage, Cultural Diversity, Families, Fiction, Food, Friendship, Home, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Mothers, Multiple Ethnicities Represented, Neighbors, Pride, Realistic Fiction
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 5 - 7
  • Grade Range Grades 1 - 5
  • Guided Reading I
  • ATOS Book Level 1.8
  • DRA 16
  • Lexile Level 430
  • Reading Level Grades 1 - 2
  • Bebop Reading Emergent
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