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Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Perico is a Spanish-speaking parrot who lives in a pet store, and although he works very hard to earn a new home, buyers keep returning him until the bird, now bilingual, finds the perfect owner. Includes Spanish glossary and pronunciation guide.
Author
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Raising a Bilingual Child, A step-by-step guide for parents
This readable guidebook prepares you for what to expect and what to do when you're parenting a bilingual-to-be. It also contains general background information that will take you beyond the how, to the why. The book provides you with solid scientific arguments for raising your child bilingually and outlines practical steps you can take to integrate two (or more) languages into your child's...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
"Some kids have one job: to be a kid! Cecilia has two. When she isn't on the soccer field scoring goals, she's accompanying her parents to all kinds of grown-up places, like the DMV, the accountant's office, and the auto shop. She helps them translate from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish. It's an important job, and it can even be fun. It's also hard work. Sometimes Cecilia's second job is so much responsibility, it feels like she'll...
Author
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
1981
Description
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just fifty words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation-from his past, his parents, his culture-and so...
13) Farm Animals
Author
Description
In our book you can find:child-friendly minimalistic graphics on a white background to help develop your child's imagination. Beautiful illustrations engage young readers and help them better understand each word’s meaning, simple point-and-say layout - thanks to it our book builds confidence through repetition and develop Arabic-English vocabulary and language skills.
15) Abuelo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
An illustrated story about a boy and his grandfather, and the family bond that can span miles.
16) La intérprete
Author
Publisher
Kokila, un sello editorial de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
Un conmovedor y sincero libro ilustrado sobre una joven que tiene dos trabajos, uno como chica aficionada del futbol y otro como inťrprete para sus padres hispanohablantes.
Cuando Cecilia no está en el campo de futbol marcando goles, acompaña a sus padres a todo tipo de lugares para adultos, como la oficina de licencias de conducir, el despacho del contador y el taller de automóviles. Les ayuda traduciendo del español al ingľs y viceversa....
17) Papá and me
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A bilingual boy and his father, who only speaks Spanish, spend a day together.
19) Playing lotería
Author
Publisher
Luna Rising
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A boy has a good time attending a fair with his grandmother in San Luis de La Paz, Mexico, as she teaches him Spanish words and phrases and he teaches her English.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son's life "I was not prepared to be a father-this much I knew." Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn't given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn't imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of...
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