Ten years ago, the Academies of the Spanish Language conceived of a Don Quixote for everyone. Now, it is being re-released—in a limited edition—to commemorate the 400thanniversary of Cervantes’s death.
Ten years ago, the Academies of the Spanish Language conceived of a Don Quixote for everyone. Now, it is being re-released—in a limited edition—to commemorate the 400thanniversary of Cervantes’s death.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 40 of 2015 (week ending 10/04/2015).
With the goal of encouraging students to develop a passion for reading and learning, The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Librariesprovides schools in need with grants to extend, update and diversify their book collections. Championed by Laura Bush since 2002, former First Lady of the United States and librarian, the foundation has awarded more than $12.5 million to almost 2,500 schools across the country.
With the goal of getting children prepared for school, all the Imperial Valley public libraries in California are teaming up to get children to read 1,000 books before kindergarten. Spanish and bilingual books are one of the major focuses of this initiative.
Three residents of St. Andrews Estates South retirement community collaborated to produce a children's book with copies in English and Spanish. "Timothy, the Bear with Blue Eyes" has a message for children to be proud of themselves, even if they are different. The Spanish language version is "Timoteo, el Oso de Ojos Azules." The book can be read by first-graders with help and alone by second-graders, the message says on the back cover.
The Baila Baila Band is coming to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Saturday, Oct. 17, at 1 p.m. in the Music Department’s Music Bowl for the MultiCultural Center's quarterly children's event.
"El Espanol" — led by the fired co-founder of Spain's El Mundo newspaper — will be seen starting Wednesday by more than 10,000 subscribers who have agreed to shell out 7 euros per month, without even seeing the product.
Asensi spoke on the occasion of her new title “El regreso del Catón” (“Cato’s return”).
Pronounced "enye," the fifteenth letter in the Spanish alphabet is often misused or completely left out of Spanish (or Spanglish) text messages, captions and social media status updates, be it due to human error or autocorrect. Either way, this is a huge problem.