Manual de arte del siglo XIX en Colombia

Una nueva alumna ha llegado a la Academia. Se llama Diletta y proviene de una pequeña y lejana ciudad. La familia de Zoe se ha ofrecido a acogerla, a pesar de que ella no quiere compartir ni su espacio ni su tiempo, y ni siquiera a sus amigos. De ahí que desde el principio se niegue a entablar amistad con Diletta. ¿Cambiará de actitud? Por si no fuera suficiente, Madame Olenska está descontenta con toda la clase, porque cree que sus alumnas no se están esforzando demasiado.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Anyone who has ever gotten drenched in a rainstorm knows what it is to be dry, but learning to identify objects as dry can be tricky for the youngest learners. This beneficial book teaches readers how to classify familiar objects as wet or dry with short, achievable sentences carefully constructed for vocabulary acquisition. The accessible narrative is accompanied by bright, interesting photographs of the objects.

A New York Times best-seller and winner of the ABBY Award features lavish illustrations of Native American settings and shares Chief Seattle's environmental message for "helping preserve what is being lost."