Una mano a la Tierra: Salvando el medio ambiente (Hand to Earth: Saving the Environment)

Encourage readers to learn about the various animals that need help and what they can do to make a difference through volunteerism in this inspiring, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers will discover different programs and organizations that work to protect animals, animal habitats, and endangered species through vibrant images and charts and informational text. Featuring a list of helpful and useful websites, this nonfiction title encourages readers to take part in animal activism in any way they can--from baking homemade dog biscuits to exploring careers that help sick or injured...

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,...

Explains the process of making a book by following the production of Nancy Carlson's book, "It's Not My Fault!," through its stages of writing, illustrating, editing, designing, printing, and binding.

The Underground Railroad was the massive effort by slaves and free people to secretly bring thousands of blacks to freedom in the North during the 19th century. This thought-provoking book will capture readers’ imaginations and fill them with awe for the brave “conductors” and “passengers” on the Railroad. They’ll learn about the many safe havens, called “depots,” that housed fugitives and the secret passages within them that hid slaves from their pursuers. Information about the American Civil War and the Fugitive Slave Act, biographies of figures vital to the Underground Railroad,...

Maravilloso libro que recoge decenas de rimas, adivinanzas y canciones infantiles, rescatadas de la tradición popular para ofrecer a los pequeños lectores una serie de actividades que les encantará. La musicalidad del lenguaje, los juegos de palabras... constituirán en sí mismos un divertido medio de adquisición de vocabulario. Mención especial merecen las ilustraciones, muy coloristas e infantiles, que ayudan a la compresión del texto y a dar solución a las adivinanzas.

¿Qué es la luz? ¿Cómo se produce? ¿Qué son las ilusiones ópticas? Convertirse en un verdadero investigador es fácil y divertido. En este libro, los niños encontrarán muchas experiencias que lo ayudarán a descubrir espectaculares fenómenos con la luz como protagonista. Podrán inventar lupas, periscopios y ¡hasta una cámara fotográfica de verdad!