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Weekly Reader/WRC Media.


Weekly Reader/WRC Media

330 W. Olive #100, Milwaukee, WI 53212

$19.33 Each www.earlyliteracy.cc

The 'Early Learning Library' titles published by Weekly Reader are 24-page easy readers for the very young, published in sets offering kids very basic information. Take the 'I Use Math' titles: each relates math to everyday life, from games and kitchen work to store and workshop--and each book also appears in a Spanish/English bilingual format. I Use Math In The Workshop (0836848586) and its Spanish counterpart Uso Las Matematicas En El Taller (0836860039) covers building projects; I Use Math At The Game (0836848551) and Uso Las Matematicas En El Juego Depelota (0836860004) discuss math in sports calculations; I Use Math In The Kitchen (0836848578) and counterpart Uso Las Matematicas En La Cocina (0836860020) discuss kitchen measuring; I Use Math At The Doctor's (0836848543) and Uso Las Matematicas En El Medico med·i·co (md-k (0836859995) survey scales, temperature and more; I Use Math At The Store (083684856X) and Uso Las Matematicas En La Tienda (0836860012) surveys the shopping process, and I Use Math On A Trip (0836848594) and Uso Las Matematicas En Un Viaje (0836860-047) tells of maps and measurements. All are geared to grades 1-3. The bilingual Spanish/English 'Water Habitats' introduces the same age group to water habitats using the same full-page bright color photos of kids interacting with their environment: recommended picks include Wetlands (0836860322), Lakes (08368602-92), Beaches (0836860276), Ocean Floors (0836860306), Rivers (08368603-14) and Coral Reefs (0836860284). The 'Animals: Desert' series focuses on desert creatures with the same bilingual format/age range reached for Gila Gila (hē`lə), river, 630 mi (1,014 km) long, rising in the mountains of W N.Mex. and flowing W across Ariz. to the Colorado River at Yuma, Ariz.; the San Francisco River is its main tributary. The Gila valley was occupied by the ancestors of the Pima and Papago ethnic groups, who farmed the region by irrigation. Monsters (083-6848276) and its Spanish bilingual Mostruos De Gila (0836848411), Vultures vulture, common name for large birds of prey of temperate and tropical regions. The Old World vultures (family Accipitridae) are allied to hawks and eagles; the more ancient American vultures and condors are of a different family (Cathartidae) with distant links to storks and cormorants. American vultures have no syrinx and are thus voiceless, emitting weak hisses. (0836848314) and its bilingual sister Vultures/Buitres (0836848454) and Rattlesnakes/Serpientes De Cascabel (0836848-438). 'Animals that Live in the Desert' adds more desert wildlife: Jackrabbits/Liebres Americanas (083684842X) describes hares; Roadrunners (0836848306) and Roadrunners/Correcaminos (083684-8446) describes the bird of the desert, an Coyotes (0836848268) and its bilingual Coyotes (0836848403) describes appearance and natural history. The 'Animals and Their Senses' set provides a focus on different animal senses and how different animals use them. Animal Touch (083-6848063) and its bilingual Animal Touch/El Tacto En Los Animales (0836848187) covers animal appendages and touch; Animal Sights (0836848039) and companion Animal Sight/La Vista En Los Animales (0836848152) tells of how animals see differently, Animal Smell (0836848047) and Animal Smell/El Oleato En Los Animales (0836848160) tells of how different animals use their sense of smell; Animal Taste (0836848055) and Animal Taste/El Gusto En Los Animales (0836848179) tells of taste buds and how different animals desire different foods, and Animal Hearing (083684802) and Animal Hearing/el Oido En Los Animales (083684-144) tells of how animals use hearing to survive. The 'People We Should Know' series ($25.05 each) are also winners, each presented in either English or Spanish. Cesar Chavez (0836847458) and the Spanish version (0836847598) provides 24 pages pairing black and white photos with a coverage of the farmworker's life and fight for civil rights; Neil Armstrong (0836847-44X) and its Spanish version (0836847-58X) tells of a boy who dreamed of flying and grew up to be the first man to walk on the moon; John F. Kennedy (0836847-474) and Spanish version (083684761X) introduces a young President who was a politician and family man; Walt Disney (0836847466) and Spanish companion (836847601) tells of a man who loved to draw as a boy and grew up to create some of the best cartoons in the world; Rosa Parks (0836847482; Spanish, 08368476-28) documents an African-American who fought for equality with quiet determination. All provide biographical sketches to a younger audience than is usually treated to such coverage. Simply outstanding.
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