Readers tag along with young Rose and her father as she takes her very first trip to a big city. Traveling from her small hometown by train, Rose is constantly surprised and thrilled to see new sights, such as tall skyscrapers, crowds of people, and lots of traffic. Other new experiences include a trip to a museum and an acrobatic show in the park. The adorable, colorful illustrations are sure to attract young readers and listeners alike. Readers will share Rose's excitement during her first trip to the city.

Readers tag along with young Rose and her father as she takes her very first trip to a big city. Traveling from her small hometown by train, Rose is constantly surprised and thrilled to see new sights, such as tall skyscrapers, crowds of people, and lots of traffic. Other new experiences include a trip to a museum and an acrobatic show in the park. The adorable, colorful illustrations are sure to attract young readers and listeners alike. Readers will share Rose's excitement during her first trip to the city.

Noah is a young boy who's never been to a beach. Readers join Noah and his good friend Will as they spend a day in the sun and sand. Will shows Noah the best ways to have fun at the beach, and shows him how to splash in the waves and build a sandcastle. Emerging readers and young listeners alike will enjoy this amusing narrative of exploration. Gorgeous, sunny illustrations are sure to draw readers' attention and aid in reader comprehension.

The first time we leave the familiarity of our homes and go someplace new is an unforgettable experience. Everything is different and exciting when you are seeing it for the first time. In this series, emerging readers and young listeners will follow along with the simple language to explore four different new places: the beach, the city, the farm, and the library. In these hand-drawn, colorful stories, children will feel as if they are visiting a new place too. Features include: Bright illustrations correlate to text and hold the attention of beginning readers. Familiar concepts are relatable to young readers.

The first time we leave the familiarity of our homes and go someplace new is an unforgettable experience. Everything is different and exciting when you are seeing it for the first time. In this series, emerging readers and young listeners will follow along with the simple language to explore four different new places: the beach, the city, the farm, and the library. In these hand-drawn, colorful stories, children will feel as if they are visiting a new place too. Features include: Bright illustrations correlate to text and hold the attention of beginning readers. Familiar concepts are relatable to young readers.

The first time we leave the familiarity of our homes and go someplace new is an unforgettable experience. Everything is different and exciting when you are seeing it for the first time. In this series, emerging readers and young listeners will follow along with the simple language to explore four different new places: the beach, the city, the farm, and the library. In these hand-drawn, colorful stories, children will feel as if they are visiting a new place too. Features include: Bright illustrations correlate to text and hold the attention of beginning readers. Familiar concepts are relatable to young readers.

Rewriting Franco’s Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory proposes a new reading of some of the most culturally significant and closely studied works of Spanish memory fiction from the past seventy years. It examines the influence of French writer Marcel Proust on fiction concerning the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship by Carmen Laforet, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Benet, Carmen Martín Gaite, Jorge Semprún, and Javier Marías. It explores the ways in which À la recherche du temps perdu has been instrumental in these authors’ works, galvanizing their creative impetus, shaping their imaginative act, and guiding their adversarial stance toward Franco’s regime. This book illustrates how these writers use Proustian themes and techniques and thereby enhances our understanding of the function of memory and fictional creation in some of the most important milestones in contemporary Spanish literature. Rewriting Franco’s Spain argues that an appreciation of Proust’s pervasive influence on Spanish memory writing obliges us to reconsider the notion that Franco’s regime maintained a rigid stranglehold on imported culture. Capturing the richness of Spanish novelists’ contact with literature produced outside of Spain, it challenges the prevailing scholarly tendency to focus on the novelists’ immediate sociopolitical concerns. There is more to these texts than a simple testimony of the brutality and hardship of the civil war and life under Franco. By illuminating the subversive nature of Spanish novelists’ use of a Proust-inspired practice of self-writing, Rewriting Franco’s Spain seeks to readjust some of the ways we view the role of novelists living during the regime and in its wake. It advocates a conception of novelists as dissidents, teasing out the seditious undercurrent of their cultivation of self-writing and examining how they disputed the regime’s ideas about what culture should look like. The preconception that the development of Spanish literature under Franco was stunted because Spaniards were prevented from reading works considered an affront to National-Catholic sensibilities is cast aside, as is the notion that Spain was isolated from narrative developments elsewhere. Rewriting Franco’s Spain ultimately reveals the centrality of Proust’s monumental novel in the evolution of contemporary Spanish literature.