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A series of 42 cartoons in Spanish depicting a Spanish-speaking canine duo. The series has been designed for instruction and entertainment for native and non-native Spanish speakers. The book is a complementary material for All Bllingual Press' series Espanol para chicos y grandes, Levels 1 and 2. It's an amusing way for children from heritage families to sharpen their language skills. The stories are a fun way to learn for non-native Spanish speakers of any age. The jokes are appropriate for little kids, older children, and their parents. At the bottom of each page is an English-language glossary. Other Spanish jokes, vocabulary explanations, and an appendix with complete translations, and a guessing exercise follow the series. (""adivinanzas"".) Here is an example (see answers below) Preguntas: a.¿Cuál es el perro más religioso? b.¿Y el perro más sabroso? c.¿Y el más trabajador? d.¿Y el más peleador? e.¿Y el que sabe más de huesos? f.¿Y el más santo? g.¿Cuál es la mejor manera de hablarle a un perro rabioso? RESPUESTAS: a.El pastor alemán. b.¡El salchicha! c.El labrador d.El boxer e.El sabueso f.El San Bernardo g.¡Bien de lejos!

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Rita Wirkala, PhD, is a Spanish curriculum developer for various levels, from Kindergarten to University. She is also a fiction and nonfiction writer, Spanish editor, English-to-Spanish translator, and creative writing teacher in Spanish.Wirkala grew up in Argentina, and her first career was as a musician. At the beginning of the Argentine military dictatorship, she emigrated to Brazil, where she lived for thirteen years. Her next move, this time to the United States, opened the door to an academic life. She completed her master's and doctorate in Spanish Literature at the University of Washington, where she taught for over twenty years. Her essays on Spanish medieval literature have been published in numerous literary magazines. In her late fifties she started to write fiction, and her novels received several awards, national and international. (More about her on her website: www.ritasturamwirkala.com)During her years as a university educator, she developed a curriculum for teaching the Spanish language to various levels of learners. Her seventeen publications from this time include three volumes of poetry for young learners, a collection of graded readings for university students, (Los Viajes de Rosa y Ernesto), and a series of cartoons to teach Spanish to children with jokes.

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