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.
Introduces Mexican culture using crafts, recipes, games, and folktales.
Mexican archeology.
An easy-to-read account of the birth of Paricutin volcano in the field of a poor Mexican farmer.
Humorous contemporary illustrations of traditional Mexican American proverbs, which appear in both English and Spanish.
In 1821 the Mexican War of Independence ended when Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba. Mexico recieved its independence from Spain.