En Mi Casa/In My House is a lovely collection of 17 Spanish tunes centered around a child's typical day-from "En la Mañana/In the Morning" to dinnertime "Pon la Mesa/Set the Table" to "Buenas Noches/Good Night".
Product Description: Putumayo invites children of all ages on a fun and educational musical journey through Latin America with Latin Playground, a collection of upbeat songs by well- known artists from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and more.
Product Description: Brazilian Playground offers an enchanting mix of musical styles and artists from one of the most musical countries in the world.
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Long ago, a bespectacled boy dreamed of color in his drab industrial French town. Henri's world exploded with color when, as an adult, he was given a box of paints.
The world changed when rags and bone, sticky stuff, and other things came together in the hands of a man who lived in the German city of Mainz. Johannes Gutenberg had printed a book in a new way.
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Bold, bright illustrations and a cheerful text that includes song lyrics introduce the life of an early 20th century African American performer.
The voice of an old, blind Galileo Galilei is used to look back on a life that started in Pisa where early on he challenged tradition.
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Who is Henry David Thoreau? What would it be like to spend a day with him? A contemporary boy depicted in blue jeans and a t-shirt knocks at his door and meets the 19th century Thoreau, as the imaginative text fills in what it might have been like.
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A former slave and sharecropper Bill Traylor moved to the city after his wife's death. Though he stored up memories of farm life and family, Traylor only began creating art in his 80s when he was homeless.
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Martin and his sister grew up in a Lima, Peru barrio, children of an African slave and a Spanish nobleman. Martin was apprenticed to a cirujano, would join a Dominican monastery, and later become sought after as a healer.