colombia

In Bogot?, Columbia, young Jos? eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jos? Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Guti?rrez's life and Bogot?.

In Bogot?, Columbia, young Jos? eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jos? Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes notes about Guti?rrez's life and Bogot?.

In Bogot?, Colombia, young Jos? eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jos? Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Guti?rrez's life and Bogot?.

An introduction to Colombia's people, animals, and traditions.

Introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Colombia.

Looks at Colombia, including its indigenous people, government, and plants and animals.

When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.

Text and color photos describe Colombia, including its land, landmarks, language, culture, leisure, and everyday life.

Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.