Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

365 cuentos, un cuento para cada día del año, con muchísimos personajes que divertirán a todos los lectores, niños y adultosUn libro lleno de aventuras para disfrutar en cualquier momento del día: al despertarse, en la merienda, antes de ir a dormir. Un universo de historias que les hará volar la imaginación por mundos desconocidos. Un libro enorme con tapa dura que prohíbe aburrirse.

Siempre he pensado que la mejor manera de cuidar a nuestros niños es alimentándolos de manera adecuada; por tal motivo, recomiendo quince minutos de lectura al día para su buen desarrollo. Cuento Cuentos Para Uno y Para Cientos es un libro que nos transporta a los bosques, mares y a la fantasía. Cada cuento toca temas que nos parecen de suma importancia, como es el caso de las guerras que algunos seres indefensos del bosque como conejitos, tortugas y las mismas plantas padecen día a día por la crueldad humana. Esperamos que a través de estos relatos podamos sensibilizar a algunas personas y comencemos a valorar la naturaleza de nuestro entorno. ¿Quién no ha crecido soñando ser parte de un cuento fantástico? Quizá de adultos ya olvidamos esa parte, pero los niños tienen muy presente esa travesía de aventura y misterio que los hace soñar, los hace felices y sanos. Te invito a que me acompañes a descubrir los secretos de cada uno de los cuentos.

Includes a section in Spanish.

The digital age is changing our children’s lives and childhood dramatically. New technologies transform the way people interact with each other, the way stories are shared and distributed, and the way reality is presented and perceived. Parents experience that toddlers can handle tablets and apps with a level of sophistication the children’s grandparents can only envy. The question of how the ecology of the child affects the acquisition of competencies and skills has been approached from different angles in different disciplines. In linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, the central question addressed concerns the specific role of exposure to language. Two influential types of theory have been proposed. On one view the capacity to learn language is hard-wired in the human brain: linguistic input is merely a trigger for language to develop. On an alternative view, language acquisition depends on the linguistic environment of the child, and specifically on language input provided through child-adult communication and interaction. The latter view further specifies that factors in situated interaction are crucial for language learning to take place. In the fields of information technology, artificial intelligence and robotics a current theme is to create robots that develop, as children do, and to establish how embodiment and interaction support language learning in these machines. In the field of human-machine interaction, research is investigating whether using a physical robot, rather than a virtual agent or a computer-based video, has a positive effect on language development. The Research Topic will address the following issues: - What are the methodological challenges faced by research on language acquisition in the digital age? - How should traditional theories and models of language acquisition be revised to account for the multimodal and multichannel nature of language learning in the digital age? - How should existing and future technologies be developed and transformed so as to be most beneficial for child language learning and cognition? - Can new technologies be tailored to support child growth, and most importantly, can they be designed in order to enhance specifically vulnerable children’s language learning environment and opportunities? - What kind of learning mechanisms are involved? - How can artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, as robot tutors, support language development? These questions and issues can only be addressed by means of an interdisciplinary approach that aims at developing new methods of data collection and analysis in cross-sectional and longitudinal perspectives. We welcome contributions addressing these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective both theoretically and empirically.

Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.