El Avestruz

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.

These titles look at many of the animals typically found in zoos, covering such topics as appearance, behavior, and babies. Vivid photographs compare the habitat and diet of each animal, both in the wild and the zoo.

This title in the Que esta Despierto? (What's Awake?) series explores the behavior of this backyard nocturnal animal. Photographs enhance the text which explains why the animal is out at night and what it does in the day. (Text in Spanish.).

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy head? These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

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.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Welcome to Canada! From its majestic mountains to its exciting sports, readers are invited to explore what makes Canada so special in this exciting, Spanish-translated nonfiction title! With informational text, fresh vocabulary, and engaging maps, readers will be engaged from beginning to end.

Este volumen reúne los textos de las conferencias y comunicaciones presentadas en el “Grand Séminaire de Neuchâtel. Coloquio Internacional Álvaro Pombo”, celebrado en la Universidad de Neuchâtel durante los días 1, 2 y 3 de noviembre de 2004.El libro se abre con un poema que Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas escribió para la ocasión y que dedica a su amigo y cómplice Álvaro Pombo. Sigue la reflexión de este autor acerca de “la figuración y la desfiguración autobiográfica” como vértices de su obra narrativa y poética. Desde esta perspectiva, el escritor y académico trata ...