Mi Primer Libro de Recortar

Simple text and photographs show how common shapes can be put together to create new and different ones.

En El fascinante mundo de... las aves rapaces descubrirás la rápida garra acuática del águila pescadora o la alucinante caída en picado, a 200 km por hora, del halcón peregrino en busca de su presa. Verás el preciso planear del buitre oteando la carroña o te sorprenderás de la habilidad del alimoche cuando utiliza una herramienta para conseguir su comida... y muchas cosas más sobre su fascinante mundo.

Photosynthesis is the basis for all life on Earth! This exciting and sensitive book looks at how plants take a gas that is poisonous to people and animals and, with the help of the Sun, create food and oxygen for all creatures. Children will delight at learning about the little chloroplast factories inside the leaves of plants and become aware of how important plants really are! Children of all ages will love this book!

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.