César Chávez

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.

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...

A muchos de nosotros nos ha ocurrido alguna vez, creímos que existía otra dimensión además de las que ya conocemos y nos preguntamos si en verdad están ahí o si son meras ilusiones de nuestra frágil mente. Tal vez nunca encontremos una respuesta satisfactoria, tal vez perezcamos antes de averiguarlo, pero al menos sabremos que el mundo real siempre ha sido misterioso y cautivador para muchas personas.

Este libro no es prosa. No es normal ni pretende serlo. No es ficción ni llegará jamás a ser poesía. Porque no quiero llevar el peso de ser poeta a mis espaldas, si no puedo a veces siquiera llevar el de ser un referente para algunos, ya que en ocasiones disto bastante de ser perfecto. Hoy, si acercas un poco algunas páginas a tu oído, quizás consigas escuchar mi corazón. Y si en ocasiones no lo oyes, es porque está algo roto. No te prometo que este sea el mejor libro que hayas leído nunca, porque a mí me lo han prometido en demasiadas ocasiones con muchos que he vuelto a dejar en...

Esta selecci n de versos del poeta tapat o Ricardo Y ez pretende llevar a los ni os a aprender la poes a en su m nima expresi n. Cada doble p gina compone un par de versos con una imagen de gran fuerza po tica hecha mediante un collage Para ofrecernos una met fora de los versos en un estilo impresionista. Letra y color se amalgaman en una propuesta po tica pensada Para ni os y todos aquellos que se inician en la poes a.

In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the graffiti street art movement pioneer. Jean-Michel was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was from Haiti and his mother was Puerto Rican–American. As a child, his gift for art was noticed by his teachers and nurtured by his mother. After struggling in high school, he gained recognition as part of the graffito duo SAMO that spray-painted cryptic messages and images around the landscape of Manhattan's Lower East Side. He eventually made his way to the New York gallery ...