¿Caimán o cocodrilo? (Alligator or Crocodile?)

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.

Siete años después de Poeta en diwan, el nuevo libro de Martínez Sarrión está integrado por poemas breves, figurativos, elípticos y concentrados al máximo, escritos en un estilo en apariencia «noble», pero socavado por la sorna. Dos bloques temáticos conforman la obra: un conjunto de preceptos búdicos, tal vez apócrifos, para manejarse en este mundo y este tiempo, y una serie de motivos para la contemplación, muy concretos y humildes, provistos de «aura» y ligados a la remota memoria infantil del poeta y a un abolido mundo mítico-rural con ecos de Cesare Pavese. El título del ...

In life there are lots of things that come and go, transform, or get left behind. It happens to everything . . . except this. This book deals with life changes and the passage of time with a great deal of sensitivity. To reinforce the message, each scene includes a page with special paper that invites us to witness the transformation.

"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...

Introduces readers to amphibians and the concept of classes of animals. Simple text describes the common features and behaviors of amphibians as well as offering many examples of creatures in this group.