Un día en el zoológico (Day at the Zoo) (Spanish Version)

There is a contest at a school to design a new playground. The students use blocks to build their models. As they build, they use three-dimensional shapes. Some students build a train out of blocks for the younger students to play on. Can you guess which three-dimensional shape they use for the train's wheels? Read to find out which design wins.

Find three-dimensional shapes in a fort! This fun title, that has been translated into Spanish, challenges children to find cylinders, cones, and pyramids in a fort while introducing them to terms like base, vertex, face, and more! Young readers will improve their STEM skills and learn how to recognize these three-dimensional shapes all around them! Vibrant images, clear examples, and helpful mathematical diagrams work together to make geometry seem easy and fun!

What’s the difference between a seal and a sea lion? These “second cousins” of the sea look similar, but there are many ways to tell these creatures apart. From ear shape to the noises they make to communicate, seals and sea lions are amazing creatures with both shared features and many truly unique attributes. They both share an ocean habitat, but when readers take a closer look, it’s easy to discover how they each fight off predators, mate, and raise their young in different ways. Captivating full-color photographs help to bring these marvelous mammals to vivid life.

An illustrated survey of the history and customs of the native North Americans who were members of hundreds of different tribes with varying lifestyles over the centuries.

La ceremonia de legitimar al gobernante de las comarcas del Anáhuac, consistía en investirle con un pequeño caracol marino. El Ehecailacózcatl sobre el pecho, representaba el honor de ser el Portador Ancestral de los secretos y la sabiduría de La Herencia Toltecáyolt. Las personas lo reconocían como la máxima autoridad. Quetzalcóatl, el hombre, fue el primer Tlatoani en ostentar el Caracol cuando estaba a cargo de Tollan.

En 1931, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) y Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) iniciaron una larga amistad literaria, cuyas consecuencias serían fundamentales para la literatura en lengua española. Desde 1947, el propio Bioy comenzó a registrar, con minuciosidad y precisión, las «interminables, exaltadas conversaciones» que mantenían casi diariamente, afanes en los que perseveró durante cuatro décadas y que condujeron a las 1700 páginas del extraordinario BORGES (Destino, 2006). Preparada también por Daniel Martino, se presenta ahora esta no menos indispensable edición de páginas...