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.

In a sea of future flows much poetic adventure of John Malpartida. It is not a summary but a high point of the spiral, in which gravitation of old and new issues is allied to a decanting of aesthetic expression unabated. This is a poem, as noted in its day Octavio Paz in relation to his first book, in which "the body thinks, thought embodies". On the other hand, it is difficult to separate this poetic work of fiction, and even some of his essays, because it involves the deepening of the same myth (or a set of images, feelings and thoughts) that draw a work: not the face of the author but a...

Discover how the butterflies colors are made up of, how they eat, and how they become the beautiful insect you see today

Lecturas graficas DE IMPACTO combine engaging topics, exciting illustrations, and carefully leveled text, appropriate for young readers. This series includes titles from a variety of genres-nonfiction, adventure, mystery, riddles, etc.-and provides cross-curricular connections to Math, Social Studies, and Science topics.

"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...