Biddy Mason: Nace una lider (Biddy Mason: Becoming a Leader)

Fernando Martínez Laínez novela en esta serie la historia de uno de los ejércitos más importantes de todos los tiempos: los Tercios de Flandes, un ejército que marcó un hito en la historia militar universal. «La senda de los Tercios» es una obra con una labor de documentación impresionante y de rigor histórico colosal. « Ante todo era un soldado, y en las banderas, con sus camaradas, pasó sus mejores años. De soldado, tal como había vivido, pensaba fenecer, pobre y solitario, pero honrado. Todo lo honrado que se puede ser después de haber luchado en Flandes .» Las lanzas narra ...

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy head? These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

Award-winning author Jorge Argueta treats young readers to a bilingual recipe/poem for the classic Latin American version of rice pudding with cinnamon. From sprinkling the rice into the pot to adding a waterfall of white milk followed by cinnamon sticks, salt stars, and sugar snow, Argueta’s recipe is both easy to follow and poetic. Lively illustrations by highly acclaimed Brazilian artist Fernando Vilela feature an enthusiastic young cook who finds no end of joy in making and then slurping up the rice pudding with his family. In Argueta’s world, cooking not only satisfies hunger with...

The author describes a variety of strange animals including an African antelope, the sloth, and the angler fish.