New Spanish-Language Books Releasing in January

New York Times bestselling author Andrea Beaty and neuroscientist Theanne Griffith’s Rockin’ Robots is the fifth book in a nonfiction early-reader series about the science of robots starring Ada Twist, Scientist! What exactly is a robot? How do they talk and move? And what does it take to build one? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Based on the bestselling Questioneers series and the Ada Twist, Scientist Netflix show, this nonfiction series is perfect for the youngest scientists of tomorrow as they learn along with Ada. Designed in a scrapbook format, these books combine art from the show, illustrations, and photography to bring simple science concepts to life.

A delicious exploration of all kinds of breads, from sourdough to bannock to bao, that will tickle your taste buds and warm your heart. What’s the only way to make bread?   You might use white flour in your bread, or whole wheat flour or corn flour.   You might use water or milk, maybe an egg or two.  You’ll use a handful of this, a dash of that, a bit of this and a splash of that.   Some dough will rise, some dough will bubble. Sometimes it will be sticky, sometimes it will be shaggy. What’s the only way to make bread? Your way! This tasty celebration of all kinds of bread will tempt bread lovers big and small. No matter what kind of bread YOU like to make, this book is for you!

Learn to read with The Letters Unicorn, a new reading series in UPPERCASE letters.   Nico is a unicorn with a beautiful rainbow-colored mane. He is friends with Ramón the Dragon, the Letters Dragon, and just like Ramón, Nico also has the power to create letters with his magical “lettercorn.” In A Flightless Dragonfly and a Brilliant Invention, Nico helps Lula the dragonfly, who has a broken wing.   A fantastic new collection for early readers written by Begoña Oro, author of The Dragon of Letters and Rasi the Squirrel, a series with over half a MILLION copies sold.   -Written in UPPERCASE letters -Fun and musical texts -Adapted vocabulary -Full-color illustrations -And a magical unicorn as the protagonist   Each book includes 3 activities at the end of the book to support learning.   Learning to read is so much fun with the new adventures of Nico the Unicorn.

A new picture book by Lucía Serrano that invites us to reflect upon labels that are placed on people.   The words we use to describe others are sometimes so big that they turn people into something they’re not. Watch out! We’re labeling people! And when we do this, we’re pigeonholing them. This shouldn’t be done. Everyone is who they are, and we are all many different things!  In this new book, Lucía Serrano invites us to reflect upon the labels we place on others, about the weight they carry, and the consequences of using them. A new book designed to make us think about a fundamental subject.

Fourteen years after its publication, comes the re-release of Dalia, an illustrated story by Carolina Sanín Paz, returns under the Lumen Children imprint. Dalia is a flower and at the same time she’s a dog. But not just any dog. She’s a dachshund hot dog, but not the kind you can eat. And she’s also a garden, a river, a tree, a house, this book.