Descubriendo Texas: Exploración en nuevas tierras (Finding Texas:Exploration in New Lands)

Stephen F. Austin grew up to become known as the Father of Texas. Readers can learn about his interesting and incredible life in this appealing biography that has been translated into Spanish and highlights both Austin's life and Texas history. Through vivid images and illustrations, supportive text, an accommodating glossary and index, and fascinating facts, readers will learn about Texas pioneers, the empresario system, Freemasons, and how Austin became such an important figure in Texas history.

Winner of: International Latino Book Awards 2014, Primer Premio en la categoría Best Young Adult Non-Fiction Book Focusing on key figures from the worlds of art, literature, music, politics, and science, this collection introduces young readers to luminaries who, despite the difficulties and failures of their childhoods, went on to accomplish great things. Readers will discover what individuals such as Jane Austen, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, John Lennon, Pablo Picasso, and even the author himself were like as children and young adults, and draw inspiration from their...

Poems about being alone, love, fear, life, death and adults from a child's point of view. A boy wearing a tiger mask takes young readers on a journey of self-understanding and discovery.

En la construcción de un imaginario colectivo intervienen múltiples elementos, pero la FE es quizá uno de los más importantes, ya que ha definido a las civilizaciones humanas desde un principio; hay momentos de nuestra historia que solo pueden ser entendidos si se miran a través del cristal de las creencias, y sin duda, Jesús Ángel Semprún Parra en las páginas de Rosas Marianas ha logrado completar un mapa de la idiosincrasia zuliana que estaba extraviado. El valor de este libro trasciende la naturaleza intrínseca de una antología y se convierte en un documento patrimonial...

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