César Chávez

George Washington Carver was a skilled botanist who became famous for his work with peanuts and other plants. Readers will discover the captivating life of this incredible scientist in this engaging scientific biography translated in Spanish. Using colorful photos and graphs, children will learn why Carver was known as "The Plant Doctor" as a child and how his work with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and pecans helped change the way people used plants! The helpful glossary and index aid in better understanding of the content, while a simple, interesting experiment leaves Spanish-speaking children...

This Spanish-translated biography introduces readers to Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Featuring lively images and inspirational text in conjunction with a helpful glossary, index, and timeline of Robinson's life, this title will engage readers as they read about Jackie's life as a college athlete, his start in the Negro League, his stand against segregation, and how he became the first person to ever get named Rookie of the Year. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

If we could take a trip to the center of the Earth, what would we find? In this amazing book readers can do just that with the help of a special ship that can handle the extreme heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s crust. Digging through a few miles of the crust is just the start of the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Earth’s core. Readers might be surprised to find that not all of the trip is through solid rock, as the intense heat does strange and amazing things to the material that makes up our planet!

«Los más de los poetas y poemas que aparecen en las páginas que siguen llegan a ellas con la impecable ejecutoria de hidalguía de una sostenida influencia en otros creadores y en otros textos, una opinión crítica unánime y la evidente predilección de los aficionados. A decir verdad, mi tarea ha sido fundamentalmente ir a buscar en las ediciones de mayor solvencia esos poemas y esos poetas estrictamente clásicos y traerlos aquí en la más amplia medida que permitieran las dimensiones del volumen. »En los horizontes de la poesía española, hay, con todo, zonas de penumbra: períodos ...

A água está tão presente em nossas vidas que deixamos de vê-la, ela se faz transparente; mas a verdade é que hoje - mais do que nunca - precisamos cuidar desse valioso recurso de forma sustentável. A Xylem Inc., por meio de seu programa Watermark, lança uma nova publicação, O grande livro da água, um convite à descoberta de muitas coisas sobre esse elemento vital e atualmente ameaçado, desde suas propriedades como molécula até a forma em que chega aos nossos lares. Esperamos que este livro seja uma contribuição para a nossa região latino-americana e que, através de suas...