¡Capturas peligrosas! Pescadores de alta mar (Dangerous Catch! Deep Sea Fishers)

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into what life was like during Westward Expansion. Students will learn about the reasons people headed west, the gold rush, the Homestead Act, Manifest Destiny, the Oregon Trail, and more. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at ...

What’s the difference between a seal and a sea lion? These “second cousins” of the sea look similar, but there are many ways to tell these creatures apart. From ear shape to the noises they make to communicate, seals and sea lions are amazing creatures with both shared features and many truly unique attributes. They both share an ocean habitat, but when readers take a closer look, it’s easy to discover how they each fight off predators, mate, and raise their young in different ways. Captivating full-color photographs help to bring these marvelous mammals to vivid life.

La vida es una historia que siempre acaba mal, precisamente porque siempre acaba. A su través, nos tropezamos con aventuras, amorosas o no, con desastres y con recuperaciones aparentes. Todo es móvil en ella, cambiante... A ese desenfreno vital se refieren estas historias, esperanzadas hasta en su desesperanza, en las que el amor no es un destino, sino un intransferible cometido.

Todos los textos poéticos de Serpientes y escaleras son breves, tanto en cantidad de versos por poema como de sílabas por verso. Asimismo, el poemario está compuesto por versos libres cuya estructura sugiere que la pausa se produzca justo después de artículos, preposiciones o pronombres personales. […] Además de los mencionados retos que propone el poemario, es notable la preocupación latente del poeta en cada texto poético por la palabra. O sea, se percibe la certeza de que el poeta “hace el amor con las / palabras / sin robarles su / virginidad”. El libro inicia con una...

When people think of soft things, they immediately conjure up images of furry bunnies and similarly textured animals and objects. This inviting book helps young readers to do the same, as learning about textures is an important tenet of the early elementary curriculum. Carefully selected photographs of soft objects make the concept of texture clear to the reader as well as aid in vocabulary acquisition.