Materials from Europe
Sports car! (¡Coche deportivo!) Fire truck! (¡Camión de bomberos!)Jumbo jet! (¡Avión jumbo!) Sailboat! (¡Barco de vela!) Young children will love the colorful illustrations of speedy cars, tough trucks, zooming planes and busy boats! Simon Hart’s eye-catching artwork and the simple text in Spanish and English are perfect for little tots just learning to read and understand a second language .
Benny no puede encontrar su hueso. Ha olfateado por todas partes y…nada. Efectivamente, ¡todos los olores han desaparecido! Quizás una visita al Dr. Duncan y a su Máquina Esnifadora le pueda ayudar.
Benny can not find his bone. He has smelled everywhere and … nothing. Indeed, all the smells have disappeared! Maybe a visit to Dr. Duncan and his Sniffer Machine can help him.
This Spanish translation of the historical novel I, Juan De Pareja is based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the 17th-century Spanish painter Velazquez. Newbery Medal Book.
Cuddly and colorful teddy bears teach new words to very young children–and in two languages! Barron’s Bilingual First Books give little boys and girls an early start in learning a foreign language along with their own.
Uses simple verses to introduce young readers to Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and other characters and incidents from the classic Cervantes novel.
A collection of more than two dozen nursery rhymes in Spanish, from Spain and Latin America, with English translations.
The Last Giants is an exceptional book, containing a poignant message about the fragility of our world and its inhabitants’. After finding a huge tooth on the docks, English explorer Archibald Leopold Ruthmore sets out to seek the race of giants to whom the tooth belongs and discovers nine giants, the survivors of a singularly gentle and kindly race.
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.
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.