Mundo Insecto

This collection of sayings is entertaining and educational for a wide variety of readers. The author explores the origins and contemporary usage of these expressions.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.

An elementary introduction to the workings of the human body, the skeleton, skin, circulation, and nervous system.

Using helpful charts, graphs, informational text in conjunction with vivid images and intriguing facts, this engaging, Spanish-translated title allows early elementary readers to explore the ecosystem, plants, and animals of the deserts around the world.

Biography of Benjamin Franklin, a great American inventor, statesmen and diplomat as well as one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. In graphic novel format.