Panama

Before you visit the Panama Canal, read the exciting story of this engineering feat – lock and lakes design, how the canal was constructed, building the three sets of locks on the Atlantic and Pacific, and two page spread of how the canal works. (Picture book)

Exciting history of one of the most dangerous engineering projects in the world, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Photos and drawings of the construction, leaders and events. (Illustrated chapter book)

Conejito, "little bunny," goes to visit his auntie, dancing and leaping all the way. But on the way home, how can Conejito avoid the fox, tiger and lion who want to eat him for lunch? (Picture book)

“Hi, who are you?” says the tortoise and snail?
“I am a sloth, I am the slowest animal on the planet.”
Why sloths hang around in the trees all day, even when they sleep, why their fur is green, favorite food, and why they sleep a lot, plus other animals in the rain forest. Stellar lift the flaps! (Board book)

A rhyming story with gorgeous collages takes you into the tropical rainforest. “Over in the jungle, wearing wings of shiny blue, lived a morpho butterfly, and her little morphos two.” (Picture book)

Another board book: Pop-Up Peekaboo! Rainforest

Loggerhead turtles swim year round in the waters around Panama, and here's a delightful story of one baby turtle, "not much bigger than a bottle top." The tiny turtle outgrows her underwater nursery, wanders far and wide, leaving no trace, until one summer night she returns to the beach where she was born. (Picture book)

Take a trip through Panama City, starting the day with ride on a Diablo Rojo bus, watch people dancing Tamborito at an outdoor promenade, stop snack of for empanadas and cheese, ride aerial tram through Gamboa rainforest, celebrate Fiestas Patrias in November. Spanish and English. (Board book)