Experimentos con la luz

Go for the goal with this text, which examines fascinating female sports heroes who’ve proved to the world that gender is no barrier to athletic success. Readers will delight in learning about the lives of Mia Hamm, Wilma Rudolph, and the Williams sisters, as well as other important women who’ve broken barriers in sports. Readers will be inspired to pursue a career in athletics after learning about how others have achieved success in spite of great obstacles. The biographical nature of the text supports social studies curricula, and fact boxes and a comprehensive timeline provide...

Award-winning author Jorge Argueta treats young readers to a bilingual recipe/poem for the classic Latin American version of rice pudding with cinnamon. From sprinkling the rice into the pot to adding a waterfall of white milk followed by cinnamon sticks, salt stars, and sugar snow, Argueta’s recipe is both easy to follow and poetic. Lively illustrations by highly acclaimed Brazilian artist Fernando Vilela feature an enthusiastic young cook who finds no end of joy in making and then slurping up the rice pudding with his family. In Argueta’s world, cooking not only satisfies hunger with...

La historia de una niña que se pierde en una multitud. Sus ojos se llenan de lágrimas y siente pánico, pero afortunadamente aparece un policía que la ayuda. Gracias a él, la niña pronto está en los brazos de sus felices padres.

Ático el zapatero es un excelente narrador de historias; tanto, que un buen día decide viajar hasta el monte Ida, donde cada año se reúnen los mejores narradores de Grecia para participar en un festival. Por el camino, Ático irá contanto relatos de dioses, héroes y monstruos a todos los que se lo pidan. Así, hasta llegar a cien historias que desvelarán al lector el fabuloso mundo de los mitos griegos, y permitirán a Ático hacerse con el premio al mejor narrador del festival.