Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, this anthology provides a wider range of classic and contemporary works than any other three-genre anthology. Three new "Critical Contexts" casebooks introduce readers to examples of professional literary criticism, and editorial commentary throughout encourages readers to read thoughtfully, analytically, and creatively.

Product Description: On summer nights Marisol helps out in Papi's music store. As customers come and go, they share memories of the Latin music and dance of their various homelands, expressed in a dazzling array of poetry. The diversity of Latin American music is brought to life in poems that swivel, sway, and sizzle with the rhythms of merengue, vallenatos, salsa, and samba...read more

All kinds of insects compete to see who is the best pest, but despite the long legs of the spider and beauty of the ladybug, a common housefly demonstrates in his own special way why he should win.

Ten little chimps go down to the local hangout where they dance the cha-cha, but one by one they begin to do other dances with other African animals.

Product Description: Kehl hates pirates. His father, the Warrior Prince, has always told him they were responsible for his mother’s death. So when he is kidnapped by Temoc, the Pirate King, Kehl is more furious than frightened. But Temoc is mapping the vast seas known as the Carrillon and needs Kehl’s cartography expertise...read more

Rhyming text and colorful illustrations enhance a charming bedtime picture book based on a popular spiritual. By the author of Cha-Cha Chimps.

While dreaming of a far away land filled with castles and fairies, a young boy's sweet dream turns on him and soon he is being chased by knights, held hostage by pirates, and transported to his classroom where he is left standing in front of all his friends with no pants.

A colorful celebration of language shows different exclamations--both positive and negative--in various languages, from Danish to Yiddish, as children enjoy eating ice cream at a busy street market.

An introduction to the life of Saint Pedro Claver, a seventeenth century Jesuit priest who spent his life caring for slaves in Colombia and working for their freedom.