Little Issue #3

Sisters in Blue tells the story of two young women--one Spanish, one Puebloan--meeting across space and time. Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, New Mexico's famous Lady in Blue, is said to have traveled to New Mexico in the seventeenth century. Here Anna M. Nogar and Enrique R. Lamadrid bring her to life, imagining an encounter between a Pueblo woman and Sor María during the nun's mystical spiritual journeys. Tales of Sor María, who described traveling across the earth and the heavens, have traditionally presented her as an evangelist who helped bring Catholicism to the Pueblos. Instead this ...

Durante años se ha insistido en que consumir grasas es perjudicial. Esta afirmación ha provocado un gran malentendido, uno más en la interminable lista de falsas verdades que proliferan en el ámbito de la nutrición. Al eliminar las grasas de la dieta, no solo nos privamos de extraordinarios beneficios para nuestra salud, sino que también saboteamos cualquier esfuerzo encaminado a perder peso. A pesar de que provienen de corrientes marcadamente distintas en lo que respecta a alimentación sana y pérdida de peso, ambos autores –Jonny Bowden, reconocido nutricionista, y Steven Masley,...

Beginning readers will enjoy learning how to compose numbers 11-19 with this Spanish book. With vibrant images and easy-to-read text, this full-color text uses a real-world example of building and decorating a gingerbread house to teach math concepts. Students will develop their math and reading skills and be introduced to early STEM themes as they count the candy used to decorate a gingerbread house. The Math Talk section includes questions that will increase understanding of basic math and reading concepts and develop students' speaking and listening skills. Learning math is fun and easy...

Simple text and photographs introduce the concept of "skip counting," or counting by groups of a certain number, and present items for practice.