El puentecito azul (The Little Blue Bridge)

Any reader who enjoyed The Little Red Fort featuring the irrepressible Ruby will enjoy this take-off on the classic The Three Billy Goats Gruff while applauding her ingenuity. After all, there are many ways to deal with a bully. When Ruby suggests that her family cross the creek via a small bridge t......more

When Ruby wants to cross the stream to get blueberries to make a pie, she and her friends must make it past Santiago who guards the bridge and demands a snack to pass. Ruby's companions pass by without payting the "toll" by promising the next child will have a better snack. Since Ruby is last and do......more

Review of an ARC provided by the publisher. In Maier's follow-up to The Little Red Fort (Scholastic, c2018), Ruby returns as the spunky sister who has all the answers. When Oscar Lee, Rodrigo, and Jose head out to pick blueberries for a pie, Ruby tags along. Each boy faces bully Santiago on a bridge a......more

I loved The Little Red Fort, and The Little Blue Bridge bowled me over again. Ruby is a can-do, no-nonsense heroine, and when her brothers leave her behind so they can pick blueberries, she is undeterred. Her brothers sell her out to the bully at the bridge, but Ruby just casually makes her own d***......more

This is a modern retelling of the classic fairy tale, Three Billy Goats Gruff. Latinx characters, including smart, problem solving, Ruby are drawn to scrumptious blueberries growing across the river. Ruby engineers a way to outsmart the bully that stands between those blueberries and her family. Bri......more