Un bosque para la mariposa monarca

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.

A través de una narración amena y directa intercalada con algunos de los poemas más conocidos de Federico García Lorca, Concha López Narváez acerca a los primeros lectores la vida y obra de uno de nuestros poetas más universales. Desde su nacimiento en Fuente Vaqueros y primeros años de vida, la autora recorre los paisajes y las personas que configuraron su carácter y su personal visión del mundo, hasta su época de reconocimiento mundial y posterior muerte en 1936.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

Siguiendo los relatos en la Biblia, este libro comienza con “En el principio”, y cubre una amplia variedad de acontecimientos clave, como “Samuel escucha”, “Ester salva a su pueblo”, “Un ciego puede ver” y “Jesús camina sobre el lago”, hasta llegar a “Jesús va a volver”. Cada historia ocupa una doble página e incluye ilustraciones brillantes y coloridas. Following the narrative of the Bible, this book starts with At the Beginning, and covers a wide variety of key events, including Samuel Listens, Esther, A Blind Man Sees, and Jesus Walks on the Lake, through to One...

Children often assume that being fair means that everyone gets the same number of cookies, but at the heart of fairness is consideration, respect, and caring for others. Your readers will encounter real-life situations in which young people figure out how to act fairly. They'll meet Ben and Jane who are playing on the swings at recess while other children wait to use the swings. What is the fair thing to do? Each spread consists of one of these relatable scenarios along with a full-color photograph. Fun, accessible text encourages readers to consider how they treat others as they discover...