Memento mori

Learn how zookeepers at the National Zoo keep the animals healthy and happy. This Spanish book features a hands-on STEAM challenge and uses real-world examples to give insight into how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.

Correlated to the science curriculum, our Spanish-language series describes how the types of homes that different animals build reflect adaptations to their environments. Through simple, easy-to-follow text, each volume looks at each type of home as a shelter from predators and weather and a place to store food and raise young. Young readers also learn how animal homes and human homes fulfill similar needs and functions.

Enmarcada bajo la Colección Memoria Viva de la Editorial Cara Parens, la obra intercala varios estilos narrativos para contar la historia de Huisderio Armadel, un músico excéntrico, injustamente incomprendido, rechazado y condenado por sus coetáneos de la aldea Imbervalt, cuyos modales son reminiscentes a los de la sociedad guatemalteca conservadora. Cartas dirigidas a amantes y amigos, extractos del diario del violinista, informes y soliloquios –pasajes que a ratos rayan en la prosa poética– son algunas de las técnicas que, aunadas a su inclinación natural hacia la musicalidad y...

Every page in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title features bright, vivid images in conjunction with descriptive vocabulary and nonfiction informational text to introduce beginning readers to various types of land. Examples include canyons, deserts, grasslands, mountains, forests, and beaches.