An Hispanic grandmother relates family and cultural history to her granddaughter in her San Francisco, California, apartment as she tells of growing up in New Mexico.
Grandma Francisca Remembers (What Was It Like Grandma?)
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Mi Mamá
Hablemos, the Spanish language edition of the Talk-About-Books series, feature a simple text and engaging photographs intended to encourage discussion and the development of literacy. Each book is illustrated with realistic and comforting photographs. Children from various familial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds experience friends and pets in their many wonderful incarnations. The simple text and engaging photos invite and encourage discussion between adult and child as they have fun exploring the images together.
City Green
Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.
Grandma Hekmat Remembers
– Encourages kids to explore their own genealogy- Timely–demystifies the hejab and other aspects of Arab culture- Series teacher guide available
Dos Años
The idea that hands, feet, eyes, ears, legs, and arms all come in pairs is discovered by two Asian-American toddlers.
Shades of Black
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children.
Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three
Pictures depict two sisters going from shop to shop buying birthday presents for their mother. Rhyming text presents numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish.
Growing Vegetable Soup
A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.
Shades of People
Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.
The Body Book
Simple text and photographs present some of the parts of the human body, including eyes, nose, hands, legs, and toes.