reading materials

Introduces Aurora the pastry cook, delicate Domitila, imprudent Prudencio, and other children with names that begin with each letter of the alphabet.

A mother raccoon teaches her son a way to overcome his fear about going to kindergarten for the first time.

With the help of his friends, Much, the toad, defeats the overconfident Keej, the deer, in a race.

On the day before Epiphany, the holiday which commemorates the visit of the Magi, a little Puerto Rican boy prepares for the celebration and looks forward to the annual arrival of the Three Kings.

When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he is lonely, they bring him a very special friend.

Offers bilingual versions of short stories by twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American authors, arranged in order of increasing complexity.

A retelling, in Spanish, of The Children's Alphabet.

After his mother's death, 12-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.

Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given.

A young animal and his grandmother spend the day at the beach.