La lana de la oveja

A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of summers, Mexico, and nature.

¿Alguna vez haz escuchado frases como... el dinero no crece en los árboles, el dinero no importa, la felicidad no puede comprarse, el dinero es el motivo de todos los males, pobre pero feliz, el dinero cuesta ganarlo, el dinero saca lo peor de la gente, el dinero corrompe, el dinero divide a las familias, hay que sacrificarse para ganar el dinero o... el que no tranza no avanza, seguramente es narco, de seguro ha de andar en malos pasos o, simplemente, tuvo suerte? Éstas, son tan solo algunas ideas y costumbres que heredamos de nuestros padres o de la sociedad misma, con las que solemos...

"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...

On some days, seven-year old Julie feels like she's living in a Fun House. Hers is a topsy-turvy world where the toaster sprouts a toothbrush, and a watermelon gets dressed up in pink underpants for Fourth of July! But on other days, Julie struggles with understanding why her Halloween trick-or-treating got cancelled, or why Grandma can't remember her name. Julie is struggling with understanding her grandmother's Alzheimer's disease. Authors Max Wallack and Carolyn Given believe that no child is too young to learn about this disease, or how to participate in providing safe care for their...