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Alessandri, Alexandra

Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

Betancourt-Perez, Jessica

Summary: Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BET

Mills, Claudia

Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIL

Sims, Nandi

Summary: "What are the variations of the English language? This book takes students across the country to learn about different regional cultures and how they impact the English language we speak"--OCLC.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 401 SIM

Fatus, Sophie

Summary: Accompagnez une famille sympathique durant une journée bien remplie. Vous découvrirez plus de 700 mots, en français et en anglais, à apprendre et à partager.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH 448.2 FATUS

Davidson, Leslie A.

Summary: "Children around the world give thanks to the sun, moon, wind, lightning and other natural elements in this poetic board book."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021

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Richards, Mary Agnes

Summary: "A History of Words for Children explores the uniquely human ability to share thoughts using words. Written in a lively narrative style, this book presents a history of the world through language, introducing young readers to the civilizations, inventions, and writers who have shaped the way we communicate. Divided into themed chapters to help young minds grasp difficult concepts, the book...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 417.7 RIC

Winston, Sam

Summary: Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them. Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WIN

Santos, Victor D. O.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "This illustrated riddle introduces children to language's impact on human culture and history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.44 SAN

Chomsky, Noam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Free Press 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 CHO

Pinker, Steven

Summary: Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Folio Society 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 PIN

Beaver, David I.

Summary: "In much of the theory of meaning, philosophers and linguists have focused on the use of language in conveying information in cooperative informational exchanges. As a result, political uses of speech, of the sort that political propaganda exemplifies, have not been taken to be a central case of language use. In this book, Jason Stanley and David Beaver focus on the political use of speech as a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023

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Rose, Susan

Summary: When José is selected for the school soccer team, his dog Feliz eagerly helps him practice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROS

Avant-garde, Zaila

Summary: "Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde teaches young readers about the joy of learning new words in this Step 1 leveled reader"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN AVA

Summary: "Early reading and spelling can be a real challenge, so help keep it fun with these three early spelling puzzles featuring short words and pictures to develop a better understanding and ability for self play. Read to your kid or help them along as Pout-Pout fish learns to read with this level 1 reader." --

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: Penworthy Company, LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Parent Teacher Kits, Call number: JPT KIT STA

Mora, Pat

Summary: "An inspiring collection of the author's own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, singing, and storytelling. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used in the poems"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 MOR

Summary: Critical Dictionary is an ambitious cornucopia of thoughts, images, and illustrations from online art magazine criticaldictionary.com, in addition to newly commissioned work. The title alludes to the mock dictionary that philosopher Georges Bataille edited for Documents in 1929 and 1930. Like this famous precedent, Critical Dictionary aims to puncture pretension, bringing words and their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog Pub. 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.04 CRI

Dominguez, Angela

Summary: "Two baby giraffes meet a baby ostrich and must guess how their potential new friend is feeling"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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Summary: This program explores the process approach to writing instruction, asserting that the act of writing is more than simply the completion of a product; it is a complex, creative, and unpredictable progression of ideas and strategies. With commentary from veteran writing instructors—including Dr. Lois Matz Rosen, author of Within and Beyond the Writing Process in the Secondary English Classroom,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Bernier-Grand, Carmen T.

Summary: Six children are at the park, one group speaks only English and the other only Spanish, but soon they learn to communicate through playing, dancing, and singing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BER

Rose, Susan

Summary: José is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROS

Deutscher, Guy

Summary: "Language is mankind's greatest invention--except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Deutscher's investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning? Drawing on recent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 DEU

Merritt, Jonathan

Summary: "In a rapidly changing culture, many of struggle to talk about faith. We can no longer assume our friends understand words such as grace or gospel. Other words, like lost and sin, have become so negative they are nearly conversation enders. Jonathan Merritt know this frustration well. After moving from the Bible Belt to New York City, he discovered that the sacred terms he used to describe his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261 MER

Summary: When is a noun not a noun? And is improper agreement really like wearing plaid with stripes? Part one of this program summarizes the parts of speech and then looks at the ways in which one part of speech can be used syntactically as another. In part two, tiny animated dancers and other helpers provide examples of errors in subject/verb agreement and article/noun agreement. Idiom is also addressed.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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