La Jirafa

Can you find these in the book? robin, tulip. What is your favorite season? Books in the Seasons series explore seasonal changes from a child's point of view. Fin out about the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells that each season brings.

Get a close-up look at animals in the zoo, from appearance to behavior to babies. This series uses vivid photos to compare life in the wild and life in captivity in terms of habitat, activity, and diet.

This book introduces you to hippopotamuses, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Find out what sets the human life cycle apart from other living things in this informative, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. With intriguing facts, informational text, and vibrant photographs, children will be introduced to the biological phases of our life cycle--from infancy to adulthood.

Chistes muy originales y entretenidos. Carlos Silveyra presenta esta colección de chistes originales y entretenidos. Muchos de ellos son sobre elefantes, algunos son sobre otras bestias y todos son muy divertidos.

Munif toma un oasis de Arabia y lo convierte en el espejo de sus habitantes. La novela es, en su conjunto, un retrato meticuloso y paciente de la sociedad beduina, y es una metáfora que muestra la revolución social, económica y política que siguió al descubrimiento del petróleo, la destrucción del equilibrio entre el hombre y la naturaleza, del choque entre los países árabes ricos y pobres, así como de la complicidad de Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos para asegurar su influencia en la zona. La naturaleza y el ritmo de vida beduina van retirándose a la par que sus códigos morales,...