De visita en el correo (A Trip to the Post Office)

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

Introduce students to what it takes to be a good leader using this Spanish-translated nonfiction book. Engaging, primary source documents and images that support the text will inspire children to practice being a good leader! Early readers will build their literacy skills and social studies content knowledge while learning about leadership.

Five and counting! So far, astronomers have discovered five dwarf planets in our solar system. Pluto, which was once thought of as the ninth planet, is today classified as a dwarf planet. This book looks at the current dwarf planets, characteristics, size, and orbital patterns, as well as the three rules scientists follow to characterize these tiny, round space objects. Every day new discoveries are being made. Who knows how many dwarf planets we will find in the future! This book will allow students to understand that patterns in the natural world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, ...

O es un buen título, desde luego. Suena corto y rotundo, juguetón, es fácil de recordar, y tiene algo de ese enigma indescifrado de los relatos de Alejandro Pedregosa. Historias breves, intensas, portentosas, escritas con la maestría de un artesano minucioso, y que traen un lejano regusto de leyenda, de fábula moral y atribulada. Un retablo de personajes de una existencia efímera que aparecen tras el telón y que saludan desde el escenario antes de enfrentarse a su destino, trágico a veces, con la resignación del penitente. Todo narrado con un estilo preciso y elegante, nunca exento...