Material appropriate for primary age groups
Three Puerto Rican stories include the title story, which represents the land’s indigenous Tainos; the tale of la Guinea, which is rooted in the nation’s African culture; and la Mula’s tale, a story of Spanish origin.
Shunned by superstitious townspeople who are suspicious of her healing gifts, Old Letivia, a wisewoman who lives on the rainforest island of Borinquen, journeys into the forest with her two friends and encounters dangerous tests of her courage.
Description in Spanish: Alicia siempre ha querido ser trapecista y su sueno se hace realidad cuando el circo llega a su pueblo. Entre mil colores, payasos, acrobtas, moniytos, caballos, y elefantes, Alicia logra lo que se propone.
A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.
With Mother’s Day coming, Antonio finds he has to decide about what is important to him when his classmates make fun of the unusual appearance of his mother’s partner, Leslie.
Soledad’s friends help her discover the many things that she can do to entertain herself when she is alone in her apartment.
Eating onions every day and having their house filled with onions is too much for the husband whose wife insists they keep away evil spirits.
A very special retelling of the fables of Aesop includes some of his less familiar, but no less shrewd and insightful, tales, and features sensitive and warm line drawings.
The fables of La Fontaine are one of the great treasures of French literature. Based on Aesop’s legendary tales, La Fontaine’s stories capture the charm, the humor, and the wisdom of the seventeenth century. This book offers prose adaptations of the fables of La Fontaine’s most beloved poems.
The king of the storks grants the drummer three wishes for carrying him across the river.