Yanitzia Canetti

"I'm off to see the world!" We hear people say this in movies and cartoons. We read it in books. You may have even said it yourself. What does it mean to see the world? We see the world when we look at a globe. We see it when we look at maps. But "to see the world" means something else, too. To see the world is to travel to new places and learn about them. You do these things when you study geography. Our world is full of wonderful places, and this book can take you to them. Let's go!

"Quien ayudara a mi hermanito? Aqui viene mi tia!" (back cover).

Pictures depict two sisters going from shop to shop buying birthday presents for their mother. Rhyming text presents numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish.

Alex and his family visit the "Big Island" of Hawaii with its eleven different climates.

An elephant thinks he can swing on a tree branch like the monkeys. When he takes a bad fall, a lot of help is needed to get him on his feet.

An elephant thinks he can swing on a tree branch like the monkeys. When he takes a bad fall, a lot of help is needed to get him on his feet.

Drawing on his own personal experiences and those of others, the author explains how to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and challenges and advocates living life fully with gratitude, zeal, and curiosity.

Rhyming verses relate how animals (from ant to zebra) behave in their natural habits. Includes animal facts.

Zoila and Alex join their botanist father on a specimen-gathering expedition in the Caribbean.

En vez de ser un patito feo como en los cuentos de hadas, el cisne chiquito, adoptado por una pata, se cree muy bonito. Se pone muy tonto y vanidoso. A rhyming story about a handsome duckling and his adventures, a humorous adaptation of the Ugly duckling.

In brief, rhyming verses that introduce the letters of the alphabet, children imagine their future careers as an astronaut, a lifeguard, a xylophonist, and others.