America: A Book of Opposites/Un Libro de Contrarios

W. Nikola-Lisa. Lee & Low Books, $6.95 (20pp) ISBN 978-1-58430-028-1

Youngsters can celebrate differences, read Spanish and learn opposites in America: A Book of Opposites/un libro de contrarios by W. Nikola-Lisa, with 10 different illustrators. Each double-page spread, representing a different ""land"" in the United States, illustrates a pair of opposites in both English and Spanish. For example, a boy makes a path of footprints on a beach in Hawaii between the words, ""Hot land/ Tierra c lida."" On the opposite page, a girl builds a snowman in Alaska between the words, ""Cold land/ Tierra fr a."" ( May)

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