In order to keep young Mario busy for a while, his grandfather assigns him the task of looking after a cow that's tethered to a stake in the pasture. Mario has adventures with the cow

Mario and the Cow

Children's Books

Ortiz, Miguel Antonio

Animals

Irene Weinberger Books

In order to keep young Mario busy for a while, his grandfather assigns him the task of looking after a cow that's tethered to a stake in the pasture. Mario has adventures with the cow!

Mario y la Vaca (Spanish Edition)

In the Bronx, on a street called Rogers Place, Mario Ortega grows up remembering his childhood in Puerto Rico. We follow him into early manhood as he weaves the cultural strands of the past with those of an urban present in New York City.

The Cisco Kid in the Bronx

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Hamilton Stone Editions

This is the beautifully written story of how a Puerto Rican family ends up in the Bronx. The people struggle to make a living, to love, and think about their lives, their futures, their pasts. The novel gives an active, intellectual inner life to people who are too often portrayed from the outside only.

Parental Sins

Contemporary

Mario is pleased to carry home some just-caught fish for his grandfather, and glad for the company of a cat, but soon one cat becomes twenty-five, noisy and hungry cats.

Mario and the Cats