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A young child asks his parents to "sing to me, say letters to me, rhyme with me, count with me, read with me." Written in both Spanish and English, this book is both a fun picture book and a source for parents who want to give their children a foundation in literacy. "[A] romping, rhyming picture book...[P]owerful, arresting art." - School Library Journal

A young child asks his parents to "sing to me, say letters to me, rhyme with me, count with me, read with me."--Un niño pide a sus papás de "cantarme, decirme las letras, rimar conmigo, contar conmigo, leer conmigo."

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

This comprehensive listing and discussion of poetic works supports the standards of all areas of the curriculum, helping librarians and teachers working with kindergarten through middle school students. This second edition of Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language offers a comprehensive list of poetry anthologies, poetic picture books, and poetic prose works in a wide variety of subject areas. While it maintains the original edition's focus on ideas and resource lists for integration of poetry into all areas of the curriculum, it is thoroughly revised to cover current issues in education and the wealth of new poetry books available. The book is organized by subject areas commonly taught in elementary and middle schools, and, within these, by the national standards in each area. Numerous examples of poetry and poetic prose that can be used to help students understand and appreciate aspects of the standard are listed. A sampling of units that arise from groups of works, writing and performance ideas, and links across the curriculum is also included. While many teaching ideas and topics provide references to the standards they meet, this title is unique in starting with those standards and making links across them.

Using new vocabulary in everyday situations is a great way to strengthen one's understanding of a language. And a trip to the post office, or oficina de correos, provides just that kind of situation in this book, an introduction to Spanish. Readers will tag along as the narrator takes mail to the post office and teaches various Spanish terms along the way. Pronunciations for each term are provided in a key in each chapter.

This book features six chapters, with every chapter containing a rhyme, variants, history of the rhyme, musical notation, instructions for preparing and using the character sets, storytime ideas, early literacy activities, take-home rhyme pieces, and additional extension ideas.