Joe Hayes' bilingual classic now in a new paperback edition!

Tell Me a Cuento / Cuntame Un Story is a bilingual Easy Reader from one of America's favorite storytellers, Joe Hayes. These stories are fun to read and listen to! The language in them is repetitive, which is great for children learning to read and acquire vocabulary in their first language, and even better for children trying to read and acquire vocabulary in a second language. The illustrations are playful and alive with color.

Complete with folklore on the art of mystic healing in the lost mountains of Northern New Mexico, this cuento--a legend--is first and foremost a love story. Antonio discovers affection early on for the various types of herbs found around his homeland. Everything in this young mans life directs him toward a calling he cannot afford to ignore.

This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures are shown to be cognitively motivated, given the meaning of the individual clitics, and the compositional/interpretative routines those meanings motivate. The analysis accounts, in coherent and principled fashion, for the absolute non-occurrence of some clusters, and the interpretation-dependent acceptability of all remaining clitic combinations: cluster acceptability depends on the ease with which the given clitic combination can be processed to yield a congruent message; there is no point in combining clitics whose meanings preclude speedy processing of the cluster. The monograph goes beyond previous work on Spanish clitics in its wealth of data, the range of syntactic phenomena discussed, and its analytic scope.

Whether used for the development and support of an existing collection or for the creation of a new collection serving Spanish-speaking young readers, this outstanding resource is an essential tool. Following the same format as the highly praised 1996-1999 edition, Schon presents critical annotations for 1300 books published between 2000 and 2004, including reference, nonfiction, and fiction. One section is devoted to publishers' series, and an appendix lists dealers who carry books in Spanish. Includes author, title, and subject indexes.

“Mamá Cuéntame Porqué Viniste!” scaffolds the telling of the story of why a Latinoamerican mother would take on the journey of migration. In a colorful, heartfelt and developmentally sensitive way this book helps mothers to tell their young children about their origins, their dreams and how their unconditional love brought them to the United States in the hopes of creating the life of safety, peace, promise and abundance any parent would want to give to his child. This book explores the psychological themes and experiences of immigrant mothers introduced by the author in her first book, “Mamá Cuéntame Porqué Viniste!”

Searchable Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionaries, based on the Oxford Spanish dictionary. Databases contain 170,000 words and phrases and 240,000 translations.