La luna en los almendros

Build early literacy skills, and develop oral and written language skills in emerging Spanish readers with this leveled fiction reader.

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an...

Un estudio riguroso del arte erótico japonés desde mediados del siglo XVII hasta finales del XIX, el denominado periodo ukiyo-e. Una recopilación cronológica de artistas que incluye figuras de la talla de Utamaro, Hokusai, Harunobu, Kunisada y Kuniyoshi, entre muchos otros. Profusamente ilustrado con más de 350 imágenes de grabados en bloques de madera, rollos de pergamino y pinturas, este libro es una referencia imprescindible del arte erótico ukiyo-e. Con un diseño marcadamente moderno que potencia la exquisita calidad de esta edición, cada ejemplar incluye una lámina de regalo de ...

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