¡Todos los colores!

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.

El viaje a Gósol fue algo totalmente imprevisto e improvisado para Picasso y Fernande, dispuestos a una estancia urbana, se encontraron en medio de la mayor fortaleza de montañas que habían visto en su vida. Pero, en realidad, se estaba esgrimiendo un viaje mucho más audaz y definitivo: el tránsito vertiginoso del pintor hacia un nuevo lenguaje plástico y, con él, hacia la modernidad. Gósol fue, simplemente, el maravilloso escenario de esta Gran Aventura, probablemente el mejor de los que Picasso, urbanista de alma rústica, hubiera podido pergeñar jamás.

Following in his father’s footsteps, young Michael was off and running on the soccer field by the age of eight! Even though he was one of the smallest players, he was also one of the toughest. He was not afraid to get in there with the bigger players and grab that ball. He scored his first hat trick at age eleven and has been going ever since. An early re-injury took him out of the 2006 World Cup, but Michael Owen is still running strong and amazing soccer fans all over the world.

Granpa has given Frederick a gift: a sealed box. It talks and contains all the knowledge of the world. This is the story of Frederick and his box, and many information about nature and ecology. For children 9 and up.