Cómo funcionan los juguetes (How Toys Work)

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

Readers will be amazed to discover that every time they climb onto bicycles and ride like the wind, they are defying gravity! This book explains the physics and history behind bicycles, skateboards, and surfboards. Readers learn what happens from the simplest movement of rolling forward to more complex tricks and stunts of jumping and spinning. Readers will never look at bikes, skateboards or surfboards the same way again.

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

In the oversized book, ten endangered species are presented in great detail. The charcoal illustrations capture the textures of the fur, feathers, and skin of each animal. Poetic text teaches children about the behavior and characteristics of each one. More scientific information is provided at the end.

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

Este volumen reúne los textos de las conferencias y comunicaciones presentadas en el “Grand Séminaire de Neuchâtel. Coloquio Internacional Álvaro Pombo”, celebrado en la Universidad de Neuchâtel durante los días 1, 2 y 3 de noviembre de 2004.El libro se abre con un poema que Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas escribió para la ocasión y que dedica a su amigo y cómplice Álvaro Pombo. Sigue la reflexión de este autor acerca de “la figuración y la desfiguración autobiográfica” como vértices de su obra narrativa y poética. Desde esta perspectiva, el escritor y académico trata ...

Fábrica de cuentos es el resultado del primer semestre de trabajo del Taller de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil «Claves para dirigirse a los más jóvenes» efectuado en la madrileña escuela de escritores Fuentetaja. Al cabo de casi seis meses de ejercicios y prácticas de composición, surgió la idea de reunir en un volumen los relatos más meritorios. Aquí los presentamos, acompañados por las magníficas ilustraciones de Isabel Nadal, quien aporta sus textos imaginativos y también sus trazos cargados de fantasía y buen humor. Que de cada autora antologada podamos leer más textos y...