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1) Facts about the world's languages: an encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
2) Max's words
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
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Language
English
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Description
English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn't speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's people in their mother tongues, you'd need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey,...
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uuuu
Language
English
Description
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7) The pledge
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young man named Max.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month Children's Books
New Children's Books January 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month Children's Books
New Children's Books January 2023
Description
On his first day of first grade in a new country, Santiago has a dinosaur-sized problem: how will he make new amigos when he does not speak English?
10) Fox 8: a story
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" cannot save his pack when their den and food supply are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter asking for an explanation of human's cruelty.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right -- in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is Anū in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese, and Arı in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
14) Gibberish
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Language
English
Appears on these lists
Back to School Books
Best Children's Books 2022
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Best Children's Books 2022
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
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Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sounds like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
15) Say hello!
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A little girl greets people in her neighborhood in many different languages
17) The Centre
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of "great works of literature," but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies and living off her parents' generous allowance. Adding to her growing sense of inadequacy, her mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, has successfully leveraged his savant-level aptitude for languages into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam...
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
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20) Bookjoy, wordjoy
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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"--
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