Remanso de Peregrinos

Where is your brain exactly? What does it do? Use your brain to read this engaging, Spanish-translated title and learn all about it!

The use of calendars dates back thousands of years. Why are we driven to record time, and what would happen if we did not? Who created the concept of calendars? Why do different cultures use different calendar systems? And why are calendars so important to us? It is about "time" we found out! Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Spanish-translated Smithsonian Informational Text builds reading skills while engaging students' curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. Packed with factoids and informative sidebars, it features a hands-on STEAM challenge...

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...

DESNUDOS Y ACUARELAS como indica su título es un libro que articula su discurso sobre dos ejes: el de las instancias plásticas de cuerpos recordados y el de la melodía de distintos instantes que en la memoria llegan a confluir. Concebido como una exposición, los poemas funcionan como cuadros en los que se anula o se refleja la evanescente percepción de un cada vez más borrado yo, que ve la realidad desde una lágrima. Jaime Siles (Valencia, 1951) es Catedrático de Filología Latina en la Universidad de Valencia. Premio Teresa de Ávila 2003 y Premio de las Letras Valencianas 2004,...