Primary (ages 6-9)

Material appropriate for primary age groups

Soledad Sigh-Sighs/Soledad Suspiros

Soledad’s friends help her discover the many things that she can do to entertain herself when she is alone in her apartment.

Pio Peep! Book and Cd

A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.

 

Animal Fables from Aesop

Here, in all their wisdom and humor, are the timeless fables of Aesop. This collection includes such well-known fables as “The Fox and the Grapes,” as well as such lesser-known tales as “The Wolf and the Lamb” and “The Crow and the Peacocks.”

Daughter of Earth: A Roman Myth

Alone in a meadow one day, Proserpina is happily gathering flowers for her mother when she spies a blossom more beautiful than any she has ever seen. Moments later, she is gone–kidnapped by Pluto, lord of the Underworld, who wants to make her his bride. Sorrowing, Cres wanders her domain, searching for her lost child. At last, in a burst of wrath, she vows to turn the earth into a wasteland unless Proserpina is returned to her.

Jack in Luck

When his seven years’ wages in gold proves too heavy to carry, Jack trades it in for one thing after another until he arrives home empty-handed but convinced he is a lucky man.

The Turtle and the Two Ducks: Animal Fables Retold from La Fontaine

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.