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21) Brick by brick
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As a little boy watches his father, a bricklayer, work hard to build the city, both dream of building a house of their own.
24) Love, Escargot
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The French snail Escargot attends a party, hoping to find his snailentine, but he instead finds a surprising new friend.
30) Annie
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The story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. One day, Annie is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire 'Daddy' Warbucks. One week turns into many and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan, the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage.
31) La piñata
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Presents fourteen traditional Spanish children's songs, with music and English translations, including "Las Mañanitas," "La Cucaracha," and "Caballito Blanco."
37) Selected poems
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In his long life as a poet, Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the people of his country but for his entire continent. Widely translated, he probably reached more readers than any poet in history; justly so, for, as he often said, his "poet's obligation" was to become a voice for all those who had no voice, an aspiration that stemmed from his long-time commitment...
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Una biografía ilustrada de Julio C. Tello, considerado el fundador de la arqueología peruana moderna y quien llegó a ser el científico social indígena más distinguido del siglo XX.
"A picture biography of Julio C. Tello, considered to be the founder of modern Peruvian archaeology, that traces his life from an early interest in Peru's ancient cultures to his rise as the most distinguished Indigenous social scientist of the twentieth century....