Un bosque para la mariposa monarca

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.

¡Aprende con nosotros sobre los animales de América que están en peligro de extinción! ¿Sabías que los flamencos pueden alcanzar velocidades hasta de sesenta kilómetros por hora?¿Y que las colonias de flamencos tienen nodrizas que cuidan a los pequeños mientras sus padres están lejos? Los flamencos viven aproximadamente veinte años, y sea cual sea su edad, no les gusta estar solos. ¡Algunos científicos piensan que en Yucatán viven alrededor de veinte mil flamencos! Estos son solo algunos de los datos increíbles que encontrarás en este libro sobre criaturas en peligro de...

Testigo inigualable de su tiempo, Francisco de Goya fue un pintor y grabador versátil que lo mismo retrató a la corte, sus fiestas y juegos, que los horrores de la guerra. Ácido e incisivo cuando se asumía como crítico, fue también delicioso y grácil al celebrar la belleza y el placer cortesanos. Un acercamiento a un hombre que, a pesar de su sordera, supo escuchar mejor que nadie las contradicciones de El siglo de las luces. An unequaled witness of his time, Francisco de Goya was a versatile painter and engraver who portrayed both the court, with its parties and games, and the horrors ...

Water is all around us! This book features pictures of different places that water can be found. From tide pools, to ponds and rivers, readers discover that there are many places to find water. The language arts connection is the introduction of vocabulary related to places where water is found.

Meet Cole Sprouse! In this engaging title, readers will follow Sprouse's career from his early roles in Grace Under Fire, Big Daddy, The Suite Life with Jack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, and The Suite Life Movie with brother Dylan to solo work on the hit series Friends and Riverdale. His charitable work with the Ride a Wave Foundation is also featured. Table of contents, map, "Did You Know" fact boxes, a "Snapshot" graphic with vital information, glossary, and index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo...

The reflection that is presented in this book is born of direct contact with schools that have a multicultural public, its dialogue with the faculty and pupils of these schools, and of the queries raised by its research in intercultural education.