This collection explores monetary institutions linking Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

The rhymes of your childhood - and your children's childhood - sound even better (and much funnier) in the accents of Moliere and Sarkozy. Once you get the point of these delectable j'aime se from the works of Mere L'Oie, you will find yourself reading them aloud to anyone who will listen.

Collects French Creole lullabies and nursery rhymes from Guadeloupe, Haiti, and Martinque celebrating life's passages and various island rituals.

"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.

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners. Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

This collection of nursery songs & rhymes features a range of classics including Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, The Wheels on the Bus, Old MacDonald, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Humpty Dumpty and Jack & Jill.

A listing of 547 songs contained on 308 recordings for children, organized alphabetically under 170 subject headings. Includes a core list of forty-six recommendations.