Una mano a la pata: Protegiendo los animales (Hand to Paw: Protecting Animals) 6-Pack

Animal trainers care for many different types of animals! Children will explore some of the methods that trainers use, such as affection bonding and classical and operant conditioning, while simultaneously gaining an understanding of animal instincts and animal rehabilitation. Readers are invited to learn about the variety of animals that trainers work with and are encouraged to find an area of study to focus on if they want to become an animal trainer. With stunning images, interesting facts, a glossary of useful terms, informational text, and an interview with a real-life animal trainer,...

Help readers make a difference by encouraging them to learn about the various ways the environment needs our help and the things they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Readers will learn about the effects of pollution, fossil fuels, renewable and non-renewable resources, deforestation, and recycling through interesting images and charts and informational text. This Spanish-translated nonfiction title features a glossary of terms and a list of helpful websites that encourages children to take part in helping the environment in many different ways.

Introduce readers to the various ways they can participate in volunteerism with this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers will discover many different charities and programs, including The Salvation Army, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, and Doctors Without Borders through vivid images, charts, and informational text. This nonfiction title aids in encouraging children to make a difference in their own communities by writing to newspapers or politicians or by participating in fund-raising and various programs or charities.

Each player has his or her own job in soccer and baseball. They each do their part to contribute to the team. Teamwork is also important outside of sports. We use teamwork in our classroom, in our community, and at home with our family. Readers are presented with different scenarios in which young people use teamwork to achieve a certain goal, like when Nicole's neighbor becomes ill, everyone in the neighborhood takes on a job with the goal of helping the sick neighbor. Each spread contains a color photograph that imparts the importance and rewards of working as a team.

La Taberna de El Traga es un libro que se bebe de un solo sorbo, no es una historia pero sí una historieta de la famosa taberna. En la que ha lugar un divertidísimo desfile de los personajes que la poblaron, gran parte de ellos que ya se fueron para siempre, integrantes del singular elenco de un monipodio de aquellos años, viva moneda que no se volverá a repetir: El Gringo, el Piripi, el Brillantina, el Cojo Peroche, el Silvestre, el Loqui, el Terrible, el Joseliqui, el Habichuela entre otros, colmaron de ángel la Taberna que aquí se presenta;

Wendy Ann Greenhalgh reflexiona aquí sobre cómo el dibujo es capaz de crear una conexión profunda con nosotros mismos y con el mundo que nos rodea, y cómo puede ser algo tan natural como respirar. También nos revela cómo los artistas pueden redescubrir el placer lúdico del dibujo y cómo incluso aquellos que solo hacen garabatos pueden experimentar con ello un gran bienestar.

PROBLEMAS "ACERTIJOS" MENTALES (300): Para resolver mentalmente, sin lápiz ni papel y en un tiempo prefijado, generalmente unos cuantos segundos. PREGUNTAS CON RESPUESTA (500): Preguntas cortas, todas ellas con respuesta, que generalmente nos dejan parado y no solemos contestar de forma rápida por temor a equivocarnos. Una vez vista la solución suelen parecer mucho más sencillas que al principio. Son las típicas de los concursos televisivos, en los que el concursante se pone muy nervioso, porque se le acaba el tiempo y no le sale a flote la respuesta. También pueden servir para jugar al ...