Charles Dickens

In this bilingual picture book, astronaut José M. Hernández recounts his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant workers and his life-long dream to travel to the stars.

If asked to define a forest, readers might say, "It has a lot of trees." But many places have a lot of trees. So, what makes a forest a forest? Readers discover that a forest is unlike any other biome on Earth. And a temperate forest is even more specific. Readers learn the many life cycles found within a forest and how the energy pyramid explains the numbers of forest plants and animals. In addition, readers learn by examining how forces usually considered destructive work to help forests survive. 32pp.

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 ...

Con esta novedosa y sorprendente exploración sobre los piratas descubrirá las hazañas y la vida de éstos hombres: sus armas, aventuras, leyendas, lenguaje y tesoros perdidos. • Averiguará como era realmente la vida a bordo de un barco de piratas. • Podrá conocer a Barbanegra, Calico Jack, y toda una amplia galería de piratas. • Descubrirá como eran los barcos y banderas piratas y las armas que utilizaban, desde machetes hasta trabucos, granadas y mosquetones.