Nonfiction genre
Teddy Berlitz bear returns to help young children learn the basics of the French language. This colorful French dictionary includes more than five hundred entries, as well as translations, spot illustrations, and word usage guidelines.
In this book male and female school teachers from all cultures are featured, seen in active and appealing photographs.
Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Seminole Indians.
A simple rhyming text that invites participation and repetition explores the ways fingers move. “Fingers high,/fingers low./Fingers reach to touch a toe.” The interracial cast models the actions, from waving to washing to making an itty-bitty spider.
Questions the child’s perception of each sense. Written in both English and Spanish.
Uses brilliantly colored paper cutouts of familiar objects–each clearly labeled with its Spanish and English name–to introduce young readers to basic words in Spanish and English.
Uses brilliantly colored paper cutouts of familiar objects–each clearly labeled with its Spanish and English name–to introduce young readers to basic words in Spanish and English.
Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Apache Indians.
Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Cherokee Indians.
The award-winning Talking Walls and its sequel, Talking Walls: The Stories Continue, introduce young readers to different cultures and different issues around the world by telling the stories of walls and how they can hold a community together or separate it. Featured walls include the Great Wall of China, the murals of Diego Rivera, Nelson Mandela’s prison walls, a Holocaust memorial in Poland, Ndebele wall designs in South Africa, Hadrian’s Wall in England, and the Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland. These books will spark the curiosity of young readers as they learn about their world and its amazing diversity. Teacher’s guide available.