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Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
"El inglés simplemente se siente mal para Isabel. Ella prefiere su español nativo. Mientras se prepara para una nueva escuela, sabe que va a tener que aprender. Su primer...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A child learns different creatures are not being rude when they do not reply, they simply do not speak the same language, so from then on the child, the bee, the fish, and the lion sit by the tree, share stories and work together to never misunderstand each other.
6) Gibberish
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sounds like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
Author
Publisher
Tapioca Stories
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Marcelo is a curious and inventive boy who has a lot of questions, especially about words and their meanings. His parents provide him with an assortment of explanations, but as Marcelo ventures to further discover these answers, he decides to create his own vocabulary. His family strives to embrace his new, unique language, but confusion soon unfolds, in a particularly unexpected way. Marcelo, Martello, Marshmallow is a playful reflection about language...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At a busy street market, kids eating ice cream exclaim, "Yum!" in English, "Geshmak!" in Yiddish, and "Nam-nam!" in Danish. But disaster strikes when a little dog overturns a spice cart, showering pepper on everyone's ice cream. Will the kids end up crying, "Hai hai," or cheering, "¡Yupi!"?"--from Amazon.com.
11) Talking leaves
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mimi is a writer and when she finds that some of her favorite words for natural things, such as wren, violet, and dandelion, are disappearing she appoints her granddaughter, Brooke, as the keeper of wild words, and shows her how to bring them to life by knowing, appreciating, and using the things they stand for.
13) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
14) Say hello!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages.
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From Mexico, Vietnam, Kenya, and beyond, this charming board book teaches little ones how to say "good night" in ten different languages: Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic, Vietnamese, German, and Korean!
Author
Series
Jose and el perro volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
José is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.
19) One & everything
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them. Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It called itself the One and started to consume every other...
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