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MITOS & LEYENDAS DE AMERICA LATINA is a Spanish childrens book that uses stories to explain puzzling questions, myths, and legends from Latin America. For example, have you ever wondered why the sun shines more than the moon? Or, why toads have spots on their skin? At school, teachers show us several answers to these types of questions, but in the past, different people who inhabited the Earth created stories full of magic and fantasy to explain these phenomena. Note that each story has originated in a different culture, and therefore, at the end you will find some very interesting...

A humble planter of date trees teaches a wealthy merchant the value of investing today in what will benefit the future generations of tomorrow.

Summer is over and that can only mean one thing for eight-year-old Mallory McDonald (like the restaurant, but no relation)--she has to go back to school. But not just any school, a new school with all new kids in it. To make matters worse, her mom is going, too! She's the new music teacher, and Mallory can't think of anything that could possibly be worse--until her first day.

"A rhyming text weaves together numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish as two sisters gather presents for their mama's birthday from a Mexican market."--ALA "Booklist." Full color.