Portuguese-English

Marek and Alice's Christmas (Portuguese-English) $22.95

It's Christmas Eve in Poland and Marek and Alice are celebrating Christmas with their grand parents. But why does babcia (grandmother) set an extra place at the table and prababcia (great grandmother) bring some hay? Part...

Mei Ling's Hiccups (Portuguese-English) $20.95

The class party is just finishing when HIC! Mei Ling has hiccups and they will not go away. The children in her class try to help her with different suggestions learned from home. But Mei Ling-???+ªs hiccups just keep...

Nita Goes to Hospital (Portuguese-English) $23.95

Nita breaks her leg and needs to be brave when she is taken to hospital. Chris Petty's beautifully made models in plasticine will help to ease children's fears and prepare them for their first hospital visit.

Not Again, Red Riding Hood! (Portuguese-English) $23.95

Little Red Riding Hood has ten cookies to take to her dad. On the way she meets some familiar, and hungry, characters. Rapunzel, the three bears, three billy goats. But as always there is a problem, a wolf is in the way...

Pandora's Box: A Greek Myth (Portuguese-English) $23.95

The famous Greek myth of Pandora's Box tells the story of the creation of life on earth and the loss of innocence. Pandora, created by Zeus, is given the gifts of the gods and sent to earth where Epimetheus falls in love...

The Buskers of Bremen (Portuguese-English) $23.95

What can four animals do when they are no longer wanted? Run off to Bremen to become buskers. Bremen however is a long way away and our four heroes are old. When they stop for the night they see a ramshackle house and decide...

The Children of Lir: A Celtic Legend (Portuguese-English) $23.95

This Celtic myth conjures up the cold and icy North Sea where an evil queen transforms her step children into swans, doomed to live for a thousand years. A powerful and tragic myth, with hugely evocative illustrations, that...

The Dragon's Tears (Portuguese-English) $23.95

This moving folk story tells how the twenty four lakes of the River Min came to be called the Dragon-???+ªs Tears. When Chin Wah releases a golden fish he is rewarded with the gift of a magic pearl. But this is when his...

The Elves and the Shoemaker (Portuguese-English) $22.95

Swish, swish! They sewed. Tap, Tap! They hammered in the nails. Their little fingers worked so fast that the shoemaker could hardly believe his eyes... who are the secret helpers that come in the night? Grimm's classic tale...

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (Portuguese-English) $23.95

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the cat, the dog and the goose to help her plant them, they are all too busy. When Little Red Hen has finally grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour...

The Pied Piper (Portuguese-English) $23.95

Rats! Big rats, small rats, young rats and old rats! Enter a mysterious stranger... This sensitive retelling of the famous Pied Piper legend raises many moral and social issues as well as inspiring drama and music.

The Swirling Hijaab (Portuguese-English) $23.95

A lyrical book about the feelings a little Muslim girl has for her head scarf, her Hijaab. Beautifully illustrated, this softback book is available in English with 19 languages.

The Wild Washerwomen (Portuguese-English) $22.95

Meet the washerwomen: Dottie, Lottie, Molly, Dolly, Winnie, Minnie, and Ernestine. They work from dusk till dawn scrubbing and soaping but their mound of grubby hankies and grimy nightshirts grows bigger by the day. When...

Walking through the Jungle (Portuguese-English) $22.95

Join this fearless young explorer as she discovers the different animals and terrains in the world-and makes it home for supper, safe and sound!

Welcome to the World Baby (Portuguese-English) $22.95

All cultures celebrate the birth of a baby in different ways. When Tariq's mum has a baby boy the whole class celebrates.And as the children talk, at circle time, they each in turn tell how their families welcomed a new...

Yum! Let's Eat! (Portuguese-English) $20.95

Charlie likes shepherd's pie and Garbiela loves fajitas - what's your favourite food? Meet children from around the world and explore their foods and eating traditions. Discover mouth-watering dishes including fajitas,...