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.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Learn the secrets to artful cupcakes, oven-fresh bread, and other delicious baked goods in this delightful nonfiction title. Readers will learn how mathematics helps bakers measure their ingredients to make tasteful treats. Featuring vibrant images and charts, informative text, and fun, intriguing facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book will leave children fascinated by all the details that go into baking their favorite treats--like doughnuts and cookies!

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.

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.

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.

Las 15 B+leccionesB; magistrales que contiene este libro revolucionaron, ya en los anos sesenta, los fundamentos de la pedagogia de la musica. Por entonces, el prestigioso compositor y director de orquesta Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) presentaba en television sus famosos B+Conciertos para jovenesB; , y explicaba de una forma amena y didactica esos conceptos y puntos considerados aburridos o dificiles en la musica (el solfeo, el contrapunto, los acordes, que es un concierto, la musica sinfonica, como suenan los diferentes instrumentos, etc.). En esta cuidada seleccion de dichos conciertos...

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...

This truly is a strange book. For starters, it talks to the reader. What's more, there are no colors until someone gives it color. Who is going to do this? The reader of course. What better way to do this besides with your fingers and hands? Full of tracing and marks, this story is far from a coloring book.