Que Comemos Hoy? / What We Eat Today?

These high-interest, low reading level biographies chronicle the lives of inspiring individuals and use a vivid, graphic-novel format that will capture the attention of reluctant readers. The dazzling, full-color illustrations and easy-to-read text bring each person's life and times to life.

"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...

¿Quieres ser la más glamurosa? Aprende a elegir la ropa adecuada, los zapatos que mejor combinan, los complementos más originales..., y atrévete con un nuevo peinado que te haga sentir única, diferente. Con esta útil y divertida guía llegarás a ser una diosa. ¡Hazte el mejor de los regalos!

Beautiful illustrations translate into suggestive images the two faces of the sea?the calm and the wind?enabling children to understand the meaning of the words themselves.