When I Am/Cuando estoy (English and Spanish Foundation Series) (Book #12) (Bilingual)

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When I Am/Cuando estoy Help your child understand the international language of emotion with this useful English and Language learning book. It teaches children vocabulary words for emotions, and even suggests constructive ways to deal with some of their negative feelings. The brightly illustrated boys and girls express a variety of emotions and tell how they react. Your child will easily relate to the everyday situations depicted on the pages. A pronunciation guide at the back of the book makes it easy for children to practice saying all of the new words they've learned.

The Benefits and Features of the English • Spanish Foundations series include:
• Helps teach vocabulary and other oral language concepts
• Summary page at the end to recap and instruct
• Helps kids get ready to read
• Helps develop phonemic, print, and numeric awareness
• Large bright colorful pictures to keep kids engaged
• Rounded corners for children's safety
• Laminated to protect from spills
• Board book so they can last
• Great size for little hands
• Simple but engaging text
• Useful for beginning Spanish at any level
• Useful for beginning English at any level

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"When I Am" Review.......2006-08-02

This book was very helpful in learning different emotions. The book was practical and included emotions such as sad, happy, angry, and scared, and provided the spanish translations for each sentance. The pictures were easy to understand and went along with the feelings. It is a great book for children!

L'Arbre Genereux (The Giving Tree), French Edition

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A great book for introducing poetry to French children or those who are bilingual.

L'Arbre Genereux (The Giving Tree), French Edition
Shel Silverstein
Manufacturer: Schoenhof Foreign Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 2211094155

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A great book for introducing poetry to French children or those who are bilingual........2007-07-30

I purchased this book to slowly introduce poetry to my grandson, as the author is a favorite of is mother's.

Jackson is only 18 months old. His vocabulary French and English is beyond that of a two year old. Still, we are going to go very slowly. We have completed the first two pages and he now comprehends them.

I think that it will be best used and understood when he is about 9 and reading himself. For that reason I have put the book away for a few years.

Los Ojos de Carmen/Carmen's Eyes: Level 3

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Los Ojos de Carmen/Carmen's Eyes: Level 3
Veronica Mocoso
Manufacturer: Continental Book Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0929724925

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Excellent book to read to children who have been exposed to the French language or who are French.
A great way to teach french to your little student

Devine Combien Je t Aime
Sam McBrateney
Manufacturer: l'ecole des loisirs
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 2211037453

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Excellent book to read to children who have been exposed to the French language or who are French........2007-07-30

I have spoken only French to my grandson since he was born and taken care of him two to three days a week. My husband does not speak French.
This having been said, Jackson has known what je t'aime means for most of his 18 months. He is extremely active but sat very still when I read this to him for the first time. I pointed to pictures or explained the meaning of the important words (those necessary) for understanding the story to him. Now it is one of his favorite books.

He relates best to books with children in them and I would like to see this rewritten using children in this or a different format. For older children this book is a 5 star one.

A great way to teach french to your little student.......2006-03-19

We got this bok because we are trying to teach our 5 yr old some basic French. This book is great for questions and declarations and the repetitive nature of the ryhmes make it easy for the child to learn. Since she knew and loved the english version, this was a great way to learn some french.

I recomend this with Ours Brun, Dis-Moi (Brown Bear What Do You See), Bonsoir Lune (Goodnight Moon) and La Chenille Qui Fait Des Trous (The Very Hungry Caterpillar). These are books your child already know by heart and are a great way to introduce a second language to your young child.

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A splendid reflection on poetry
Excellent, Challenging, and Accessible
Startling ideas, gorgeously written
Worth the Work

Feeling as a Foreign Language
Alice Fulton
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1555972861

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"The better part of fairness is the willingness to move toward what is given rather than impose one's own aesthetic on a book. This approach--a sympathetic leaning toward the work coupled with patient rereading--is the one I've tried to realize." In this collection, poet Alice Fulton looks at her craft from a critic's perspective, exploring the "good strange or eccentric" world of postmodern poetry. In order to do this, Fulton has divided her book into five parts; the first, "Process," explores the multitudes of filters that stand between the writer/reader and the work--everything from the computer screen to that judgmental internal editor "invested with the power of entry and exclusion." "Poetics" investigates the forms postmodern poetry takes, supporting the "free and fractal" with an in-depth examination of prosody, linguistics, and even the relationships between quantum physics and poetry. In "Powers" Fulton takes a look at two misunderstood poets: the 18th-century Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, and the 19th-century Emily Dickinson--both considered "eccentric" in their own times. "Praxis" is a meditation on the author's own work, and she follows it up with the final section, "Penchants," which contains three essay-reviews on a number of modern poets. Anyone interested in the state of postmodern poetry will find much food for thought in Alice Fulton's Feeling As a Foreign Language. --Margaret Prior

Book Description

In Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. How does poetry create feeling? What are fractal poetics?

In a series of provocative, beautifully written essays concerning "the good strangeness of poetry," Fulton contemplates the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome, the aesthetics of complexity theory, and the need for "cultural incorrectness." She also meditates on electronic, biological, and linguistic screens; falls in love with an outrageous 17th-century poet; argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters; and calls for a courageous poetics of "inconvenient knowledge."

Contents

Preamble

I. Process
Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes

Screens: An Alchemical Scrapbook

II. Poetics
Subversive Pleasures

Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic

Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions

III. Powers
The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty

Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle

Her Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson

IV. Praxis
Seed Ink

To Organize a Waterfall

V. Penchants
A Canon for Infidels

Three Poets in Pursuit of America

The State of the Art

Main Things

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VI. Premises
The Tongue as a Muscle

A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge

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A splendid reflection on poetry.......2002-02-10

Alice Fulton here offers beautifully crafted essays on poets and poetry, emphasizing the power of estrangement that gives lyric much of its interest. Emily Dickinson plays an important role in this book, but above all the reader will find elegant and telling formulations about poetry's exploration of possibilities of feeling.

Excellent, Challenging, and Accessible.......1999-09-21

Let's keep it simple: this is a challenging but accessible and rewarding book. It's not surprising that some professional reviewers have carped; the book takes them (often deservedly) to task for preaching "karaoke poetics," parroting with increasing volume and decreasing originality things that were said -- and tired -- a decade ago. Fulton's chapters on her own poetry and on Dickinson are outstanding, but the whole rewards even a casual reading. Though it's prose in format, the book is still a poem -- a fractal poem -- in the way it plays with its subject matter, diverges on flights of fancy and whimsy, reveals the poet as a person rather than a cold auctorial voice, etc.

Startling ideas, gorgeously written.......1999-05-02

Not since I read Wallace Steven's 'The Necessary Angel' 25 years ago have I felt such a wide-ranging intelligence in a book of essays on poetry. Fulton uses theories of science in absolutely startling ways. Readers with any interest in rich metaphors will find much here that is positively exciting and new. Her two essays on what she's calling "fractal verse" are solid, thoughtful, and full of possibilities for where poetry can take us. So far as I know, no poet has ever before described the "poem plane" and how poets are at the threshold of "breaking" through it. To me, this is as significant as Pound's idea of "breaking" the pentameter was when it was first proposed. This book is the work of a true visionary.

Worth the Work.......1999-04-13

I've got to admit that I'm beginning to lose my patience with a lot of Alice Fulton's critics, many of whom seem to toss disparaging words her way with the flippant anxiousness of young children encountering and smothering something new and intimidating. "How do you know that you don't like broccoli if you won't *try* it," and how will these writers ever lend a thoughtful critical perspective if they can't stop harping on Fulton for refusing to tow a more conventional, accessible critical stance? Their generic vision ought not be Fulton's problem. It's not my mission here, however, to get into a long dialogue about the critics (Amazon wouldn't post it anyway), but to instead come to the aid of an engaging, challenging, and vital new book of essays. Fulton's volume circumscribes a theory (let's make it more approachable)--a notion--of poetics that stands to breathe new life into a discipline that is fast becoming a solipsistic basketweaving in and around the zillion MFA programs of our nation's universities. Her implicit enthusiasm for sharp words (she bitingly assigns an anonymous, well-known poet the name Halcyon Angeltongue) and for poetry's good *potential* in these pieces is so forward-thinking and refreshing that I found myself, ruffling through the pages, suddenly grandly optimistic for poetry's contemporary cause. In these pieces: Fulton lights on the "screens," both figurative and literal, that fall between reader and object, individual and elements. She comes to the generous aesthetic aid of famous and unfamous poets alike, reorganizing conventional approaches to poetic criticism with precision and concerted care. And Fulton envisions an exciting, strenuous new school of "fractal poetry" (challenging and quite seaworthy), which "looks to chaos and complexity theory as touchstones for contemporary aesthetics. These pieces suggest that as free verse broke the pentameter, fractal verse can break the poem plane or linguistic surface." This writing is gleamingly new and often makes for difficult maneuvering, but it's always a dance worth learning, worth the work.

Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book

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Multicultural Perspective
Good book, but focuses on only rural areas...
yungiyungi
Priceless
An African ABC book

Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Muriel Feelings
Manufacturer: Dial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0803743467

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Multicultural Perspective.......2007-03-30

Jambo Means Hello is an alphabet book that has a Swahili word on each page starting with the corresponding letter. The word will be "baba" for mother, or "jambo" for hello, for instance. Then, there is the English translation of the word, and a short paragraph about the cultural meaning of the word. The book is accompanied by detailed black and white pencil drawings illustrating the cultural concept of the word in a typical small village in Africa. The drawings are very realistic and convey a strong sense of family, from the youngest children to the eldest grandparents. The lack of color in the pencil drawings makes the illustrations very realistic, but not as visually interesting. Children would probably prefer a more colorfully-illustrated book for this reason, even though the drawings are very skilled. The target audience for this group would be an early reader or someone learning their ABCs, to learn the different letters of the alphabet as receiving exposure to a different culture.

Good book, but focuses on only rural areas..........2006-09-02

I am an American citizen, but my fiance is Kenyan. I was thrilled to find this book, since when we have children I want them to know as much about his culture as they do mine. I really like the idea of this book - introducing young children to Kiswahili words, and I love the pronunciation guides that are provided. I only have one complaint with this book. Its focus is completely on rural life, rural traditions, and rural culture. There is nothing about the larger African cities (my fiance grew up in Nairobi... not a tiny village). So if your goal is to learn a few Kiswahili words (although many of the words themselves are related to rural life), then this is a great book. But do not expect to get any idea of modern aspects of African life or city life. Even so, the book is cute, and worth it just for the Kiswahili it does contain.

yungiyungi.......2005-12-05

jambo means hello is an informational book that teaches basic Swahili words that correspond to each letter in the alphabet.The Swahili words listed are defined in English and presented with a pronunciation key. A passage describing African culture pertaining to that particular word is also on the same page.Muriel Feelings uses a double-page layout to provide the reader a chance to think about that Swahili word before the next one is presented. The black and white illustrations, that expand upon the text, are composed with white tempura paint, black ink and linseed oil. An author and illustrator biography as well as an introduction to Africa are other parts of the book worth reading.

This Caldecott Honor book is fun and informative. It gives a good introduction to Swahili and some east African culture.This book provides the reader with detailed descriptions that influence further investigations of this foreign culture and language.

Priceless.......2005-10-21

Words alone will not serve this book justice. This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. My soon to be 2 yr old daughter borrowed this book from our first trip to the library when she was only 14 months old. Of the 5 or 6 "children's books" we borrowed, this was the ONLY book she wanted to read. So, we read it over and over until we had to renew our borrowing time, then finally after a little searching over this last summer, we bought it used from an old library. It is now in our collection forever. The illustrations of course are the most exquisite, and the representations of the alphabet give any reader a taste of Swahili culture and pride. My daughter knows every word in this book, because it is part of her culture and the book is so enticing, she egged to learn more from this pair of author/illustrator. Needless to say, if my 2 yr old loves it, I'm sure it'll please other readers as well.

An African ABC book.......2004-09-15

This Swahili alphabet books presents a Swahili word for each letter of the alphabet representing important aspects of East African life and culture, from the grand (e.g., "ibada means worship" or "uzuri means beauty") to the more commonplace (e.g., "embe is a mango" or "punda is a donkey"). The illustrations are in warm shades of black and gray and represent the diverse peoples and landscapes of the wide region of Africa where Swahili is spoken. The introduction describes where Swahili is spoken, including a map.

This book is clearly written for outsiders and, as such, may be best described as a kind of social conscience book. Too often people in the United States speak of Africa as if it is a monolithic culture and this book may help to counteract that narrow perspective by honoring a variety of aspects of African culture. I especially like the scenes and activities portrayed in this book, from rural to urban, traditional to contemporary. My favorite page is "uzuri means beauty," with its description and illustration of two women, one with a crown of braided hair and the other with a shaved head and multiple pierced ears and its explanation that "Beauty means different things in different parts of Africa." The nicely written introduction reinforces this concept.

What I Look Like When I Am Surprised/Como Me Veo Cuande Estoy Sorprendido (Let's Look at Feelings)

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What I Look Like When I Am Surprised/Como Me Veo Cuande Estoy Sorprendido (Let's Look at Feelings)
Joanne Shepherd
Manufacturer: PowerKids Press
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Bondad/ Caring (Heinemann Lee Y Aprende/Heinemann Read and Learn (Spanish))

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Bondad/ Caring (Heinemann Lee Y Aprende/Heinemann Read and Learn (Spanish))
Sarah Medina
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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Binding: Library Binding

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Enojo/ Angry (Sentimientos/ Feelings)
Sarah Medina
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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Feelings Students (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme)

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Feelings Students (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme)
Adrian Doff , and C. J. Jones
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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