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K-3Escalones series.
These books present information about their subjects through a busy combination of reasonably translated Spanish text, photographs, and illustrations. The format has child appeal, but each informational book is marred by a long fictional story oddly inserted toward the end. Ind. Review covers these Escalones titles: Animales salvajes, Bajo el mar, De aquà para allá, Hogares de animales, and Mi cuerpo y yo.