Celebrating Cuentos

Celebrating Cuentos
Author: Jamie Campbell Naidoo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-11-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1591589053

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.

The Miracle of the First Poinsettia

The Miracle of the First Poinsettia
Author: Joanne Oppenheim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Children of unemployed parents
ISBN: 9781841483641

A beautiful story which offers a new way of celebrating Christmas- Accessible, engaging text teaches children the valuable life lesson of the power of faith and trust and encourages personal integrity- Author Joanne Oppenheim has written more than fifty books for and about children, and is President of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio organization- Introduces the extraordinary artwork of Fabian Negrin, who grew up in Argentina and studied art in Mexico City- Poinsettias are the bestselling potted plant in the United States!

The Perfect Knight

The Perfect Knight
Author: Catherine Gousseff
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892367399

The title character in this story has a penchant for fighting but ultimately learns the virtues of peace over war, as a beautiful damsel explains to the young knight what it takes for him to be truly perfect in her eyes.

Dora's Box

Dora's Box
Author: Ann-Jeanette Campbell
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780679876427

In order to protect her, Dora's parents put anything that might frighten or hurt her into a box and tell her never to open it, but when she eventually does, her life is enriched by what she finds.

The Riverbank

The Riverbank
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Creative Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781568462073

Artwork by Fabian Negrin interprets the powerful concluding paragraph of Charles Darwin's revolutionary book On the Origin of Species on the 150th anniversary of its publication.