Orem Library

Every great author started out as a kid. Before the bestsellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school and make mischief, with his best friend Tom of course! A young J. R. R. Tolkien was bitten by a huge tarantula -- or as he called it, "a spider as big as a dragon." Toddler Zora Neale Hurston took her first steps when...

25,000 terms and their definitions with 8,000 full-color illustrations of a wide variety of objects from all aspects of life.

Labeled photographs offer the English and French words for the human body, clothing, home furnishings, foods, animals, plants, space, weather, vehicles, buildings, colors, shapes, musical instruments, sporting goods, and other familiar items.

A cumulative rhyme in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.

Demonstrates the different ways people look at the same situations by presenting contrasting idiomatic expressions in both English and Spanish. Example: Someone important is a "big wheel" in English but a "fat fish" in Spanish.

A Spanish/English picture dictionary, containing 1,500 words, with illustrations and example sentences in both languages for each entry.

Allows the reader to use the alphabet to think ahead.

A variation of an old lullaby in which adoring family and friends promise the baby an assortment of presents.

Melvyn Bragg and other experts explore the 1,500-year history of the English language and answer questions such as: How did it grow from a relatively insignificant Germanic dialect to become the premier language of culture, commerce, and diplomacy around the globe? Includes guide for group discussions, avenues for further learning, biographies, web extras, and much more.