Betsy Ross

New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India, in this true story of his life. As a young teenager in India, Gandhi led a rebellious life and went against his parents' values. But as a young man, he started to form beliefs of his own that harked back to the Hindu principles of his childhood. Gandhi began to dream of unity for all peoples and religions. Inspired by this idea, he led peaceful protests to free India from British rule and unite the country—ending violence and unfair treatment. His bravery and free-thinking made him one of ...

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

«Los más de los poetas y poemas que aparecen en las páginas que siguen llegan a ellas con la impecable ejecutoria de hidalguía de una sostenida influencia en otros creadores y en otros textos, una opinión crítica unánime y la evidente predilección de los aficionados. A decir verdad, mi tarea ha sido fundamentalmente ir a buscar en las ediciones de mayor solvencia esos poemas y esos poetas estrictamente clásicos y traerlos aquí en la más amplia medida que permitieran las dimensiones del volumen. »En los horizontes de la poesía española, hay, con todo, zonas de penumbra: períodos ...

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