George Washington Carver

These biographies introduce young readers to important figures in American history. Ideal for reports and correlated to the social studies curriculum, the series presents a straightforward account of each individual's life and times and describes how each person contributed to the shaping of our nation.

Provides a simple description of how astronauts aboard a space shuttle perform everyday activities such as eating, drinking, and sleeping.

This Spanish language edition of Yuyi Morales's Pura Belpré Award winner and New York Times Bestseller Dreamers is now available in paperback! Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous book Dreamers, and its Spanish language version Soñadores, are about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi did not speak any English at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their ...

El haiku es una de las más importantes formas de poesía japonesa. Consiste en un poema breve de tres versos de cinco, siete y cinco sílabas respectivamente. su estilo se caracteriza por la naturalidad, la sencillez (no el simplismo), la sutileza, la austeridad, la aparente asimetría que sugiere la libertad y con ésta la eternidad. No admite la metáfora, la subjetividad ni la personificación. La temática es estacional y cada haiku debe contener un kigo, una palabra de estación de manera que indique en qué estación se sitúa el haiku. Federico Jiménez Losantos es un gran amante de...

Introduces different kinds of light, the properties of light, and how light can create shadows of different shapes and sizes.