A cat and a dog are enemies until a crisis brings them together as friends.

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast. Sumario en espa~nol: Con su gran capacidad de amar, una criada buena y hermosa libera a un principe hermoso del encanto que le ha hecho una bestia fea.

Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings. Includes glossary and author's note.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child. Sumario en espa~nol: Un peque~no hombre extra~no ayuda a la hija de la molinero a hacer girar la paja en el oro para el rey con la condicion de que ella le dara su primero ni~no.

A princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the forest cottage of seven dwarfs. Sumario en espa~nol: Una princesa se refugia de su madrastra malvada en la casita forestal de siete enanos.

A boy has a good time attending a fair with his grandmother in San Luis de La Paz, Mexico, as she teaches him Spanish words and phrases and he teaches her English.

When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.

English and Spanish are languages of America's past, present, and future. My First Visual Dictionary gives young readers a pictorial introduction to words and phrases in both languages. More than 1,000 words, 800 color illustrations, and two comprehensive indexes provide an exciting start to the challenge of learning a new language. This dictionary makes learning even more fun with entertaining riddles and games for each of the book's 20 word groups....