Un bosque para la mariposa monarca

¡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...

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.

Groups of American Indians had been living in the Texas region for thousands of years when American settlers decided to expand westward. This captivating book has been translated into Spanish and explores the history of American Indians in Texas and how each group found different ways to live in the region they inhabited. Readers will learn about a variety of tribes, including Karankawa tribe, Jumano, Caddo, Lipan Apache, and Shoshone and discover how they struggled to survive European colonization, the Indian Removal Act, and American expansion. Other topics include the Dawes Act, Indian...

A los cincuenta y seis años, muy enfermo, condenado al silencio por la sordera, Beethoven destina los últimos días de su vida a la elaboración de sus memorias, dictadas a Schindler, el fiel amigo. Éste es el punto de partida de una obra apasionante: las apócrifas memorias de Beethoven. En ellas, el lector conoce al genio alemán en la cotidianidad: desde la muerte de su madre hasta la tormenta que cayó sobre Viena el día de su propia muerte, pasando por sus composiciones, los amores, los encuentros con Mozart y Goethe, su opinión sobre Napoleón...

A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens."* Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they motivated the workers to fight for their rights and, in the process, changed history. Award-winning author Monica Brown and acclaimed illustrator Joe Cepeda join together to create this stunning...

You can see shapes all around you when on a camping trip! Take a look at the 2-D shapes found at a campsite and in nature. Beginning readers will enjoy finding the circles, triangles, squares, and hexagons in this brightly illustrated Spanish book. With vibrant images and easy-to-read text, this full-color text uses a real-world example of a camping trip to teach math concepts. Beginning readers will develop their math and reading skills and be introduced to early STEM themes. The Math Talk section includes questions that will increase understanding of basic math and reading concepts and...