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Introduces the holiday Cinco de Mayo and describes how it is celebrated in Mexico and in the United States.

This brightly illustrated title presents lyrics and instructions for various traditional Hispanic games. Each entry is designed to help caregivers engage in constructive, rhythmic play with infants and pre-schoolers. Through these activities, caregivers will help small children develop hand eye coordination, neuromuscular control, rhythm and attention span.

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein--but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...