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Set in the Bronx during the 1950s, when postwar immigrant children were placed in their first American classrooms, this delightful story tells of the riotous linguistic misunderstandings of Josephine’s first day of school. The daughter of savvy Italian engineers, Josephine has lived in the city long enough to have learned a few words in English, but is overcome when her teacher makes her stand up in front of the class and tell about her life in Italy—in English, of course. The result is a charming tale of adventures and multicultural miscommunications as Josephine attempts to make herself understood. Children will come to understand that sometimes people underestimate the talents and dignity of newcomers to the United States and will embark on a poignant journey as Josephine tells her incredible story the best way she knows how and attempts to understand her English-speaking teacher and classmates. Establecidos en el Bronx durante los aÑos ´50, cuando los niÑos inmigrantes de la posguerra fueron a sus primeras clases estadounidenses, esta encantadora historia relata los cÓmicos problemas lingÜÍsticos que tuvo Josefina el primer dÍa de escuela. Hija de experimentados ingenieros italianos, Josefina ha vivido en la ciudad el tiempo suficiente como para haber aprendido algunas pocas palabras en inglÉs, pero se siente sobrepasada cuando la maestra le pide contar el relato de su vida en Italia a todos sus compaÑeros, por supuesto en inglÉs. El resultado es un encantador cuento de aventuras y desaciertos linguÍsticos y culturales producidos mientras Josefina intenta hacerse entender. Los niÑos entenderÁn que a veces la gente subestima los talentos y la dignidad de los reciÉn llegados a los Estados Unidos y empezarÁn una aventura al Josefina relatar su increÍble historia de la mejor manera en que sabe hacerlo y mientras ella intenta comprender a su maestra y compaÑeros de habla inglesa.

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Twirling and whirling, zigging and zagging, numerals dance across the pages, enticing children to play with numbers and develop a better understanding of numeric values in this fun and informative comic approach. Three groups of numerals make mightily concerted attempts to maintain the quirks of their distinct personalities in the face of persistent peer pressure. The irascible 1, 2, 3, and 4, though frail and wiry, would like to impose their ballroom dance style on the robust 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. 5 and 6 cannot help reverting to raucous jazz dancing, no matter how hard they sportingly try to conform, and 7–10 don't see the point of being anything but what they truly are—western line dancers. Scuffles, rumbles, round-ups, and coercions ensue until 1–4 have their way and 5–10 "go back to dancing like they want to, again!" The book's rousing, impeccably-metered rhymes provide the cadence of each dance style, and the spare accompanying art lends a clean energy to the numerals' challenge to accept each other as they are.

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