Includes basic information on preparing a booktalk. Suggestions for teaching language-minority and second language students to read Spanish language children's literature. Includes a bibliography of children's literature in Spanish. Useful indexes include subject, readability level, and series. Describes the rationale for developing curriculum connections, and suggests sources for various fields of study.
Titles have brief annotations, including grade levels.
Each title is given a critical annotation, grade interest level, reading level, and additional subject headings. Annotations include suggested grade levels for both reading aloud and independent reading, as well as follow-up activities . Discussions of fiction and nonfiction books with mathematical elements. The two books also describe how some teachers have used the titles, and give suggestions for classroom use. Short articles, colorful illustrations, often suggested activities, with an emphasis on interesting topics around the world.