Siglo XX: Carrera hacia la Luna (20th Century: Race to the Moon) 6-Pack

Travel to the 22nd century in this captivating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title that allows readers to discover the future of space. Elementary readers will be fascinated with the possibilities that may await human life in the future. Readers will discover the technology that may be used to one day allow humans to live on another planet, new worlds, alien life, and artificial intelligence. Featuring vibrant photos, images, informational text, a glossary of terms, and a list of helpful websites for more explorations, children will be excited and enthralled as they move through this title....

With every new feat, there is at least one big failure. Learn about some of the biggest technological feats and failures in human history in this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title that allows readers to discover some of the technological innovations that have made life easier. Featuring detailed images, charts, and graphs, informational text, and intriguing facts, children will be engaged and captivated from cover to cover! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

With every new feat, there is at least one big failure. Learn about some of the biggest technological feats and failures in human history in this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title that allows readers to discover some of the technological innovations that have made life easier. Featuring detailed images, charts, and graphs, informational text, and intriguing facts, children will be engaged and captivated from cover to cover!

One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he's never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to meet, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the end of an era was prophetic.

Many insects hatch from eggs and molt several times as they grow bigger. Others, such as butterflies, undergo a complete metamorphosis. A common science curriculum topic, insect life cycles may be confusing because of these differences. However, this book breaks down these cycles into easy-to-understand steps in both accessible language and colorful diagrams readers can turn to for review again and again. The most important vocabulary needed to talk about insect life cycles is further explained in fact boxes and an extended glossary.

En El vuelo de la razón (Goya, pintor de la libertad), Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) repasa su existencia al hilo de tres momentos de su vida (mientras pinta tres de sus cuadros más emblemáticos). En 1800, realiza La familia de Carlos IV, obra realista y nada complaciente con los personajes retratados. En 1814, tras la Guerra de la Independencia y el final de la ocupación francesa, pinta Los fusilamientos del 3 de mayo de 1808, cuadro donde aspira a hacer oír, «por medio del pincel», el grito de la humanidad oprimida. Ese mismo año, el nuevo rey Fernando VII, entra en Madrid, disuelve ...

Se trata de un libro con coplas originales para ofrecer a un público universal en el que se expresa el diario vivir de los campesinos que han poblado la gran urbe Bogotana y sus alrededores (Cundinamarca) en ese proceso de migración constante. Además se presenta al lector una serie de expresiones populares que se han venido perdiendo a medida que las ciudades crecen y trasforman a los individuos, su identidad, su forma de hablar y actuar. Se trata de un rescate del pasado para que permanezca en nuestras mentes ya que el modernismo lo está disipando. Expresiones como: so jeroz, alcánceme...