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Los niños se ponen felices cuando su mamá les hace un papalote. Se pierde el papalote. Al buscarlo, encuentran un gatito sin hogar.

Budding inventor Eliza Boom is about to try her 92nd experiment. Her previous 91 have all ended in explosions. Her father, who is an inventor of spy equipment, has told her not be frustrated by failure. She writes everything down in her diary that she has named Edison (after Thomas Alva, of course). She recounts not only her wish to succeed, she shares how she is treated by the meanest girl in school. With the help of her trusted dog Einstein and a new friend, she defuses some hairy situations.

Cuando se anuncia en la ciudad la presentación de un globo aerostático, Los Aventureros del siglo XIX -es decir, Jules y sus amigos Caroline, Marie y Huan- no pueden resistir la tentación de examinarlo en secreto. Al mismo tiempo, siniestras fuerzas contrarias al progreso confabulan para que la presentación del maravilloso aparato fracase. Unos y otros conseguirán su propósito, dando así el pistoletazo de salida a arriesgadas peripecias para los integrantes del club: abandonados en una isla perdida, tendrán que recurrir a su inteligencia, su habilidad, su valor para sobrevivir y, ante ...

Some things are close -- cerca. Others are far -- lejos. With sweet simplicity, this charming dual-language board book and its companion volume, Lejos/Far, engage young children. Mi cuarto está cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen. As she walks from her kitchen through a daisy-filled yard to the house next door, a little girl notices things that are close to each other -- just as the little boy she goes to visit is close to her.