Besides the cultural and language barriers library personnel encounter when interacting with the Latino community, libraries generally lack the funding to engage in multicultural advertising as well as the time and specialized personnel to do it. Provides a practical, easy-to-follow guide to creating a bilingual-friendly facility that will attracts Latino users. Offers a systematic, orderly plan that directs outreach activity with worksheets, discussion reports, and easy-to-follow schedules, and more than 100 marketing ideas, tips, and examples from libraries around the country that can easily be incorporated into day-to-day activities. Many of the strategies can be applied to outreach of other minorities as well.

"Based on the popular Spanish song Los Pollitos Dicen, [this is a board book to which a child can] sing and learn ... while [hearing] about a mother's nurturing love, in both English and Spanish. Complete with ... illustrations, this book is a ... way to make learning with your little chickie special and unique in not one, but two, languages"--Publisher marketing.

"Crabby is a very crabby crab. Plankton wants to cheer Crabby up. Plankton tells Crabby a joke. Plankton bakes Crabby a cake. Will Crabby wver crack a smile?"--Page 4 de la couverture

¡Hola, amigos! is a highly accessible and balanced introduction to Spanish that helps prepare students to use the language in a natural way in a variety of situations. Focusing on the four skills of listening, reading, writing, and speaking, students are provided with many opportunities to practise and use the language, while increasing their cultural awareness of the Spanish-speaking world. The third Canadian edition has maintained what has made this such a successful program for students?its succinct and precise grammar explanations, the presentation of high-frequency and practical vocabulary?while incorporating more communicative and task-based activities and increasing the cross-cultural content. Overall, the entire ¡Hola, amigos! program continues to be a flexible option for instructors and students alike.

Hola, amigos! Learning espanol is a blast with this book. Packed with sections of fun facts, tips, and silly Spanish phrases, kids will be speaking Spanish pronto! In addition to thirty Spanish-themed puzzles, kids find: Pronunciations of Spanish words Commonly used words for around the house and town Terms for describing themselves en espanol An English-Spanish glossary As a bonus, the book includes a comprehensive parent/teacher guide to facilitate learning. Loaded with simple, lively lessons to keep kids busy for hours, this book is just the thing to get little readers to hablar espanol hoy!

Brighter Child(R) Spanish for Grade 1 helps students master beginning foreign language skills. Practice is included for learning color words, animal words, family words, and more. School success starts here! Workbooks in the popular Brighter Child(R) series are packed with plenty of fun activities that teach a variety of essential school skills. Students will find help for math, English and grammar, handwriting, and other important subject areas. Each book contains full-color practice pages, easy-to-follow instructions, and an answer key.