A literal-minded housekeeper causes a ruckus in the household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.

Introduces Spanish by defining such common words as "hola" ("hello"), "perro" ("dog"), and "madre" ("mother").

An imaginative boy opens a box of animal crackers and gives his family members a hippopotamus, anaconda, rhinoceros, and other exotic animals.

In rhyming text, Hispanic children count the things, like pinatas and maracas, that can be seen in their neighborhood.

Explores the origins and evolution of the Spanish language, covering Hispania's Vulgar Latin of 800 AD, the language's development through the age of Queen Isabella and the rise of Spanish in the Americas. The authors give us a passionate and intriguing chronicle of a vibrant language that thrived through conquests and setbacks to become the tongue of Pedro Almodóvar and Gabriel García Márquez, of tango and ballroom dancing, of millions of Americans...

An illustrated series of questions and answers about up and down, in and out, and hot and cool.

This book uses zoo animals as examples to introduce basic concepts of mathematics.