La Gente de la Luna

After befriending a clever tortoise while lost in the Brazilian rainforest, a young Kulina girl, Mira helps it keep from becoming her father's dinner.

"Describes living on a ranch including information about corrals, rodeos and roundups."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Javier Vizcaíno, periodista de Onda Vasca, oyó en el metro a un grupo de jóvenes destacar la habilidad que tenía su profesor de Filosofía de bachillerato para explicar con facilidad una materia tan compleja. Emocionado, publicó en Twitter la anécdota. La noticia se viralizó, y gracias a las pistas y a la colaboración de tuiteros que sospechaban de quién podía tratarse, no pasaron muchas horas antes de que su identidad pudo ser revelada: Unai Cabo, quien a partir de entonces pasó a ser reconocido como el profesor de Filosofía del que los alumnos hablan maravillas. Dejémosles...

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

This is a hopeful conservation story about an endangered family of Mexican gray wolves who live in a sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest and their journey that leads to their successful release to the wild in Mexico. This nonfiction story, illustrated with color photography, follows the lives of a Mexican gray wolf family, known as lobos, with pups born at a sanctuary in Washington State near Mount Rainier, to their release into the wild in Mexico. Through this hopeful and engaging story of conservation, kids learn about wolves--their characteristics and behavior--and the challenge of...