Get a head-start on your baby's Spanish-speaking skills with this bilingual board book box set--the perfect gift for newborns and baby showers! My First Bilingual Library includes 10 board books that introduce your child to Latin American culture while teaching them foundational English-Spanish vocabulary. The durable materials and small book size also make them perfect for your baby's little hands. Each book will teach your child important English-Spanish vocabulary words in categories like: ABCs Numbers Colors Foods Land Animals Sea Animals Space Vehicles Jobs Around the House There's no better time for kids to learn a second language than during the first years of their life, so take advantage of this special moment and turn your "No Sabo Kids" into "Sí Sabo Kids" with this durable and fun box set of 10 board books.

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

Featuring colorful, vibrant illustrations and bilingual first words, My Big Bilingual Book of First Words will give your baby a head-start on their Spanish-speaking skills while introducing them to Latin American culture Teach your baby their first Spanish words! From animals, foods, and everyday objects to planets, technology, and transportation, the first words in My Big Bilingual Book of First Words will help your baby become familiar with foundational English and Spanish vocabulary. Plus, with early exposure to fundamental bilingual words, you will improve your baby's cognitive development and help grow their brain. Features include: 100+ Colorful Illustrations Paired with Bilingual Words: Keep your baby engaged as they expand their reading comprehension 9-1/4 x 9-1/4 Size: Big pages so your child has no problem reading each word Durable Layflat Binding: Making it easier for kids to keep the book open as they interact with the pages Sturdy Pages and Fun Puffy Cover: Thick and durable board book pages so they can read it again and again, plus a puffy cover to engage your child's sense of touch

Simple words and bold illustrations show children that friends are easy to find even in the most unlikely places.

Zen Master Beopjeong spent over thirty years on South Korea's bestseller lists. Praised as "one of the great spiritual leaders of our time" (Korea Herald) and "one of the most popular and influential religious leaders in Korea" (Korea Times) who "left immeasurable teachings to all of us" (President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak), Beopjeong wrote on the foibles of modern life and the joys of nature and simplicity. His direct uncomplicated prose continues to appeal to new generations of readers. Beopjeong's musings and insights are presented in English-Korean parallel text. Illustrated with Korean art throughout, each page in translation is mirrored by its original Korean hangul script on the facing page. The translator, D. Bannon, is a member of the American Translators Association (ATA). "A true work of art." --Tom Larsen, YA Entertainment. "An incredible translation." --SeungHan Chung, MBC America. "A a worthy consideration for Buddhist and Spirituality collections. Recommended." --Midwest Book Review

This book extends the debate on resources in multilingual classrooms in new directions. It focusses on the languages other than English that are most commonly spoken by British school children and it looks at ways in which decisions about language, typography, production and design affect both readability and status.

Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don’t know where to start with learning a foreign language.

More effectively meet the diverse literacy needs of the growing Latino population by learning how to evaluate and select quality Latino children's literature. Latinos are the fastest growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States. The number of Latino children is at a historic high. As a result, librarians and teachers in the United States must know how to meet the informational, cultural, and traditional literacy needs of this student demographic group. An ideal way to overcome this challenge is by providing culturally accurate and authentic children's literature that represents the diversity of the Latino cultures. Much more than simply a topical bibliography, this book details both historical and current practices in educating Latino children; explains why having quality Latino children's literature in classrooms and libraries is necessary for the ethnic identity development of Latino children; and offers a historical overview of Latino children's literature in America. Web resources of interest to educators working with Latino children are also included.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.