Social Studies

The Giant Turnip (Romanian-English) $20.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Hungarian-English) $22.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Tale of the Lucky Cat (Tagalog-English) $29.95

This retelling of the most famous Japanese folktale captures positive values, love and kindness. A toymaker who cares for an injured cat ends up having his own life saved and is repaid with good fortune. This classic story...

Up and Down the AndesA Peruvian Festival Tale $19.99

This rhyming text travels from Lake Titicaca all the way to the city of Cusco for the marvelous Inti Raymi Festival. Young readers will meet children from many areas of southern Peru who are traveling to the festival, each...

Find out about China $17.99

Each Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts: Part One: Introduction-Takes readers on a journey...

Find out about Spain $17.99

Each Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts: Part One: Introduction-Takes readers on a journey...

Find out about France $17.99

Each Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts: Part One: Introduction-Takes readers on a journey...

Find out about Italy $17.99

Each Find Out About book introduces boys and girls to a different country, its people, its history, its culture, and its language. The books are divided into four parts: Part One: Introduction-Takes readers on a journey...

One Is a Drummer: A Book of Numbers $20.95

Children can learn about Asian culture in and out of the classroom with this third book in author Roseanne Thong's popular series. While the two previous books focused on colours and shapes, this vibrantly illustrated book...

Count Your Way through Japan $8.95

For the numbers one to ten, the Japanese language offers two sets of numbers. In Count Your Way through Japan, Jim Haskins uses the set based on Chinese numbers to count such aspects of Japanese life as Japan's one Mount...

The Children of China: An Artist's Journey $11.99

Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who...

Share the Sky $7.95

Little Fei-fei loves kites. She lives in China with her grandfather, who makes the most beautiful kites. Then a letter arrives from North America - the time has come for her to join her parents there. She is full of...

We're Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on The Silk Road $22.95

Explore a world of stunning silk, delicious spices and exotic trade locations in this rhyming tale about the Silk Road, the trade route through Asia. This beautiful picture book includes endnotes on the towns along the Silk...

Ellie's Secret Diary - Bully (German-English) $24.95

Read Ellie's secret diary to see how she coped with bullying and how she won through. Help is at hand!

Ellie's Secret Diary - Bully (Shona-English) $24.95

Read Ellie's secret diary to see how she coped with bullying and how she won through. Help is at hand!

The Giant Turnip (Punjabi-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Arabic-English) $22.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

Ellie's Secret Diary - Bully (Bulgarian-English) $24.95

Read Ellie's secret diary to see how she coped with bullying and how she won through. Help is at hand!

The Giant Turnip (French-English) $20.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Albanian-English) $20.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...