The Let Me Read series fills the gap between board books and picture books for emergent readers. Bright, crisp pictures invite young children to read on their own with predictable story patterns, memorable rhymes, and comforting repetition. Tips at the back of the book guide parents in reading books with their children. Reading Recovery levels are available for most titles. Reading Recovery is a registered service mark of the Ohio State University. Hardbound. Reading Recovery Level 13

Day and night, life and death are often seen as opposites. But they can also be understood as a continuum, one containing the other. Both ideas are expressed in these evocative poems by Jorge Elias Lujan. "An Apple in the Apple Orchard" describes a young boy and girl in the early morning playing hide-and-seek among the trees. "Pale as a Bone" places the same children on a carousel ride where a "Lady-as-Pale-as-a-Bone" is trying to choose whom to take with her. Illustrator Manuel Monroy artfully portrays both stories in a magic garden.

Alexander se dió cuenta de que iba a ser un día terrible couando se despertó y se encontró chicle en el pelo. Y aun fue peor...

Su mejor amigo lo abandonó. No ten ía postre en su bolsa del almuerzo. ¡Y para colmo, había habas verdes en la comida y besos en la televisión!

Este cuento clásico de Judith Viorst, ahora en español, será sin lugar a duda del agrado de los lectores de todas las edades, como lo ha sido hasta ahora.

Twenty-three new paintings by Alfredo Arreguin are included in the second edition of the highly regarded book first published in 2002.

When Allison tries on the red kimono her grandmother has sent her, she is suddenly aware that she resembles her favorite doll more than she does her mother and father. When her parents try to explain that she is adopted, her world becomes an uncomfortable place. She becomes angry and withdrawn. She wonders why she was given up, what her real name is, and whether other children have parents in faraway countries. Allison's doll becomes her only solace until she finds a stray cat in the garden and learns the true meaning of adoption and parental love.

Alma Flor Ada's El Reino de la Geometria Softcover Spanish Book : Everyone lives happily in the Kingdom of Geometry until King Square VII comes to the throne, Persuaded by his courtiers that a square is the perfect figure, with four identical sides and four square angles, he decrees that only squares shall be allowed in the palace and in the town. It takes much ingenuity and determination on the part of a young square named Rose, to free the remaining figures from the kings rule. This is a story to initiate reflections on injustice, discrimination and racism, as well as possible responses to oppression. The illustrations are by the famous Spanish artist José Ramón Sánchez.

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts of street crime claimed friends and family members. Before long Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words, and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning Chicano poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more — until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.