![]() ![]() It will also inspire pride for those who live in LA and can identify the familiar places. It will entice little ones to want to visit this city and find the featured sites. This board book presents Los Angeles as a beautiful place that honors Latinx cuisine as well as celebrities, such as Selena and the LA Lakers. Young children can experience an introduction to travel through this colorful mapping of the City of Angels. Toddler-PreS–Tourism is not just for grown-ups. Purchase where there are gaps in bilingual board book shelves.– Shelley M. VERDICT These are best when shared aloud with young children. Newspaper-like clippings pepper the pages of the Salazar title writing instruments-pens, a typewriter-are also prominent. The background characters are rendered with different skin colors, emphasizing the racial diversity within the country. The illustrations for the book on La Pola lean heavily on yellow, blue, and red, the colors of the Colombian flag. The stylized art presents the subjects as young children, making these volumes more kid-friendly. The English narrative is placed at the top and the Spanish below it. These bright board books pack in a lot of text and information within their sturdy pages. Salazar used his platform to fight for equality for Latinx people. Both trailblazers made a mark on Latinx history, breaking boundaries to do so. Salazar was the first Mexican American columnist for the Los Angeles Times and devoted his career to shedding light on Chicano issues. With the intelligence she gathered, the country was able to win independence from Spain. Born in 1795 rural Colombia, Policarpa “La Pola” Salavarrieta became a seamstress and moved to the capital to spy on the royal family. PreS-Gr 2–The latest entries in the publisher’s “The Life of/La vida de” series feature an 18th-century revolutionary who is considered one of the greatest figures in Colombian independence and 20th-century Mexican American journalist Ruben Salazar. The Life of/La vida de Salazar.ISBN 9781948066570.Įa vol: illus. The Life of/La vida de La Pola.ISBN 9781948066341. Here are two drawings that illustrate the pre-computer function that this program is meant to replicate, and its Scapple-ized equivalent.These sweet selections in Spanish and English will inform as well as delight readers and their young listeners. It is called Scapple it is from Literature and Latte, the small English company that produces Scrivener it's still in open beta and it is so easy to use and understand that you can very quickly grasp what it might and might not do for you. I'll spare you that speech (and you can see links to some past articles about Scrivener here) so as to get right to the new program I want to mention. Last year Scrivener's creator, Keith Blount, served a stint as guest-blogger in this space, as did the creator of Tinderbox and a co-creator of TheBrain. I consider Scrivener the single most useful writing program I've ever come across I'm fascinated by Tinderbox and TheBrain I have come to trust and rely on both Evernote and DevonThink and so on. I'll spare you my whole speech about the inklings of another at-least-mini golden age of Interesting Software, especially though not only for the Mac. Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. ![]()
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