Materials from the Americas
The Spanish-language edition of Wilma Unlimited.Before Wilma was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she’d run. And she did run–all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad.
A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.
¡Qué noche! Hay luna llena. Gatita tiene hambre, está muy curiosa, y valiente, y obstinada. Tiene mala suerte . . . ¡y después buena suerte! ¡Qué noche!
Great-aunt Runfio was once a little girl who loved the sea, longed to visit faraway places, and wished to do something to make the world more beautiful.
After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious and beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria’s parents once ate in their homeland, Valencia, Spain. That very day, Maria and her family plant the seeds that soon yield a magnificent orange grove and save the farm. But who was the mysterious lady who appeared in her dream and will Maria ever find her again to say gracias?
A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through encountering the many different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited.
The creators of the popular Say Hola books now take their Spanish-language adventure to the circus. Readers will get to see the greatest show on earth as performed by trapecistas (trapeze artists), payasos (clowns), leones (lions), and elefantes (elephants). Through whimsical art and rhyming text, Say Hola to Spanish at the Circus is a great way to learn the second most spoken language in the U.S.
Based on the life of Charlotte Parkhurst, this rollicking adventure story traces the daring and unusual escapades of a real 1860’s girl who disguised herself as a man so she could live, work, and vote as she pleased.
One park,
two dogs,
two boys,
two lost balls …
and dozens of
ballplayers.
Is this your ball?
No!
¿Es ésta tu pelota?
¡No!
Then …
let’s go find the owner of this ball!
¡Vamos a buscar al dueño de esta pelota!
Turn these pages and you will discover that boys and dogs and ballplayers speak the same language (even when they don’t).
And by the time you finish this book, you will, too.
Tony’s toad behavior and toad talents make him popular with his friend Memo, a mannerly field mouse. Convinced that Tony is not a suitable playmate for their son, Memo’s parents are forced to reconsider when Tony literally snatches victory from the jaws of a very hungry coyote.