By the end of the book, Hop does learn to swim but not at the same levels as his fellow frogs. A frog called Hop and his friends are taking swimming lessons, but Hop is slow learning the basics and the fun tricks.
Published in June, Hop a prende a n ada ( Hop at Swimming Class) by Esther van den Berg, ISBN 9781605377544, was well received, earning a starred review from School Library Journal. The back cover of each Clavis title features a color-coded train that denotes the reading level and topic area for educators and parents. The Spanish-language editions, selected from highly popular series, authors, and illustrators, are published simultaneously with the English editions. However, new translations of the titles have been done in the U.S., changing the castellano Spanish common in Spain to Latin American Spanish. The books selected are ones for which Clavis owns the Spanish rights and that have previously been published in Belgium. Three more are planned for the fall, and two for spring 2023. This past spring, Clavis introduced Spanish-language children’s books, publishing four titles. About 10 years ago, the company began publishing some 70 English-language children’s titles per year in the U.S. We spoke with six publishers about their publishing programs and the new titles they are most excited about.īelgium-based Clavis publishes books worldwide for children of all ages. Just this slice of the pie illustrates how essential Spanish-language books are to our communities, schools, and libraries. Ten percent of New York City’s 1,800 school districts use this method. By the time these students enter middle school, they are fully bilingual. More common today is the dual-language approach that began about 30 years ago and is increasingly becoming the norm.įrom first through fifth grade, students are taught with educational resources in both languages. Some act as publishers and distributors, while others are solely one or the other.Įducating Spanish-speaking students follows two models-one approach, popular in the 1990s, is to immerse students in English accompanied by some Spanish language for a year or two and then ditch the Spanish altogether. Some publish original content while others publish translations of well-known American authors. Keeping pace with demand is an array of large and small publishers, each taking its own approach to meeting the needs of Spanish-speaking students. Retailers have them too-more than half of Barnes & Nobles’s bookstores have at least a small section of books in Spanish, notes Alex Correa, President & CEO of Lectorum, the largest distributor of Spanish-language books in the U.S. While this population is highly concentrated in just nine states, schools and libraries throughout the country have increasing numbers of Spanish speakers among their constituents. Hispanics are the largest minority group in the U.S., representing approximately 18 percent of the total population and more than 50 percent of population growth since the 2010s.
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