Why is reading important to your child? Reading sparks imagination, stimulates cognitive development, boosts social skills, and increases communication proficiencies. At Advance Books, we endeavor to connect children to the wondrous world that surrounds them, at home and at school. Our Sophia and Alex series is dedicate to parents wishing to teach their children essential values and attributes conducive to forming bright young minds. Moreover, they're fun to read! In our fifth book, Sophia and Alex arrange for a home play date with Isabella and Juan, their friends from school. They spend time with their friends, pets and family playing games and hanging out. Each book from the Sophia and Alex series is also published in multiple world languages with accompanying English parallel text. Strengthen your child's native tongue, build a foundation of English immersion, or teach them a new language. Regardless of the intent, it has been proven that early learners have the ability to easily absorb additional languages during their formative years. Children that carry a second language are found to excel exponentially throughout their educational years.