English language learners will be eager to explore their libraries after reading this bilingual book. Using a fictionalized approach, this book allows beginning readers to discover the library through the eyes of a child, including meeting the librarian and using a library card. Bright illustrations and easy-to-follow text presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish explains the most important parts of a visit to the library in an entertaining way.

In this narrative, Jayla joins her Aunt Alexis for her first trip to the local library. This is a big step in Jayla's life. Her aunt, who is the head librarian, enjoys showing Jayla around the newly updated library. Jayla is amazed by all the things there are to do, see, and read. Story-time listeners are sure to love the colorful illustrations, which aid in comprehension but also make this a truly delightful narrative.

An introduction to libraries and the services they offer.

Librarians are experts when it comes to books and reading! Readers will enjoy following the narrator as they attend story time at their community library. The narrator explores new books and learns a lot from listening to the librarian read. Just as the library’s books fascinate the children in the text, this book will engage children with its illustrations and familiar story. This book fosters an emerging reader’s excitement about reading, and inspires those who haven’t yet learned to read to get started.

Everyone loves going to the zoo, especially the narrator in this new fiction title. The characters in this book spend a sunny day at the zoo, where they meet elephants, monkeys, penguins, and more! Readers will delight as the characters encounter new animals and will cheer at the exciting sea lion show. Accessible text and colorful illustrations brings this visit to the zoo to life. This text is perfect for beginning readers and for reading together with younger children.

Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Pinera: is a seminal book that fills a major gap in Cuban and Latin American literary criticism. In addition to being the most comprehensive study to date of the life and work of Virgilio Pinera, this is the first book in English on this major twentieth-century Cuban author. In this study Thomas F. Anderson draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts and diverse critical writings, bringing new insights into how Pinera's works responded to key literary influences as well as events in his life and in Cuban political and cultural history.

Puppetry Originated In India And Travelled Across The Seven Seas To The Eastern And Western World As Vouched By Many Scholars. Puppets Dated Back To A Period Well Before Bharata S Natya Shastra And Have Continued Unabated Throughout The Centuries In Almost All Indian States. Puppetry Is One Enduring Form, Which Has Entertained Masses And Educated People. The Famous Puppeteers Of Rajasthan Are Really Acrobats, Who Only Put On Puppet Shows When They Move Out Of Villages. These And A Thousand Other Scintillating Facts Come Out Of This Exciting Book For The Reader S Entertainment And Elucidation. Puppets Are By No Means For Only Children, -- As The Puppeteers Of Orissa Sing And Dance About The Romantic Love Of Radha And Krishna, And Keralan Puppets Narrate Kathakali Stories In The Same Make-Up And Costumes.The Book Aims At Giving A Connected Account Of The Indian Puppets: Their Variety, Their Multiple Functions, Their Craft, Their Animation And Their Connections With Other Related Arts In Five Separate Parts. The Book Also Contains For The First Time In Any Book On Puppetry -- Four Important Appendices: Museums In India Containing Puppets, Directory Of Indian Puppeteers, Global Bibliography On Puppets And A Relevant Glossary. The World Of Indian Puppets Is Seen In Vivid Colours With Scores Of Coloured Photographs And Many Line-Drawings And Half-Tone Pictures --- In Their Many-Sided Splendour: Variety Of The Glove, Rod, String, Shadow, And Human Puppets And A Myriad Background Stories Of The Puppet-Masters And Their Imaginative Landscape Of Free Creativity.