Martin Luther King, Jr. SP

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...

A magnificent graphic novel in which Alfonso Casas parks the irony and offers us all his tenderness. Often the past leaves loose ends, issues to solve, questions that pursue our future. This is what happens to the protagonist of this book, Dani. Just before getting married, under the pretext of a photographic project about the passage of time, he travels to the coastal town where he used to spend his summer during his childhood. A place that he has not stepped on for twenty years and that, as the story progresses, reveals the importance he acquired in his life, because there he discovered,...

Juro lealtad a la bandera (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag) teaches students about the Pledge of Allegiance. This book uses intriguing primary source images and documents and simple sentences to engage students in reading as they build their social studies content knowledge. For use in the classroom or at home, this Spanish book includes a simple glossary, captions and an index to introduce informational text features to young readers and provide additional reading support.

Heredero de la gran tradición norteamericana en narrativa de terror, que nace con E.A. Poe y pasa por H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King ha logrado con sus obras una difusión jamás alcanzada por ningún otro autor en este género, dotándolo de una vitalidad envidiable. Danza Macabra (1981) es un lúcido y divertido ensayo, lleno de referencias a multitud de obras y jugosas anécdotas biográficas, que pretende dar respuesta a la paradoja esencial del aficionado a la ficción de terror: «¿Por qué hay personas dispuestas a pagar a cambio de sentirse extremadamente incómodas?» Y para abordar...