Double-page thematic spreads with labeled illustrations introduce Spanish vocabulary and conversational phrases in such areas as clothing, counting, color, days of the week, and common verbs.
Double-page thematic spreads with labeled illustrations introduce French vocabulary and conversational phrases in such areas as clothing, counting, color, days of the week, and common verbs.
When the magic dogs who live on the volcanoes of El Salvador and protect the villagers from harm are pursued by wicked lead soldiers, they are aided by two ancient volcanoes.
Translates the Japanese folktale about a young fisherman who finds he has been in the Kingdom Beneath the Sea for, not three years, but three hundred. Provides the Japanese text along with the English translation, and features Shiro Kasamatsu's classic illustrations.
A retelling of the Japanese story in which an old bamboo cutter finds a child in a bamboo stalk, raises her, and is surprised to find that her destiny lies far, far away.
A retelling of the Japanese legend in which a boy named Kintaro, raised in a mountain forest by his mother, befriends all of the forest creatures, becomes a soldier under a samurai lord, and wins fame when he conquers a band of evil demons.
Inchy Bo, a bean-sized boy, decides to become a samurai, and after saving a princess from a demon, is granted his greatest wish. Presented in Japanese with an English verse translation.
