La Jirafa

Get a close-up look at animals in the zoo, from appearance to behavior to babies. This series uses vivid photos to compare life in the wild and life in captivity in terms of habitat, activity, and diet.

This book introduces you to hippopotamuses, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.

These titles look at many of the animals typically found in zoos, covering such topics as appearance, behavior, and babies. Vivid photographs compare the habitat and diet of each animal, both in the wild and the zoo.

Full color, full-page photographs throughout with straightforward and engaging text, the I Want to Be... series is an appealing and engaging introduction to a broad spectrum of occupations. The I Want to Be... series gives young children a realistic insight into the working day of adults. Easy-to-read captions and color photographs of women and men from different cultures help children understand what's involved in each occupation. Young readers learn to respect the importance of doing a job well and appreciate the contributions these workers make to our life and the world around us. These...

Teach young students about ways to serve their communities. This Spanish-translated book encourages readers to help others and do their part in the community. Primary source images support the text and engage readers to help them better understand the content. Informational text features help students navigate the text.

Margarita es una chica de trece años que se siente sola. Un día, empieza a cartearse con otra chica de su edad, que está muy triste porque han secuestrado a su hermano. Margarita, por casualidad, descubre quiénes son los secuestradores.

La obra de Hebert Abimorad es, desde este punto de vista, sólida, coherente, compacta, fiel a sí misma. Desde otra perspectiva, se nos presenta como una escritura creativa diseminada, plural, abierta, en continuo recambio y búsqueda interior, que se exterioriza en sus nuevos textos, que se verbaliza en sus otros “yo”, en su heteronimia militante e ineludible: Martina Martínez, José José, Camilo Alegre, Flor de Condominio. Acto discursivo de travestismo, emergencia de la multivocidad que nos provoca a todos, y de la que sólo los poetas (y algunos seres enajenados o separados del...