Romancero para niños

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

Looking at VENEZUELA: Did you know that Angel Falls, in Venezuela, is the highest waterfall in the world? Looking at Venezuela, you will see the snow-covered peaks of the Andes Mountains, the flat-topped cliffs of the Guiana Highlands, and the colorful plants and animals of the rain forest. Learn about life in Venezuela, from the Maracaibo Basin to Margarita Island and from oil rigs to orchids.

A collection of poems in English and Spanish discusses imagination, dreams, family, and growing up in California and in Mexico.

LA reflexión sobre la temporalidad y la memoria que caracteriza la poesía de Francisco Díaz de Castro sitúa a su personaje frente a una indagación del paso del tiempo como una dialéctica compleja entre la conciencia de la pérdida y la afirmación del instante. Como ha dicho Antonio Jiménez Millán, «a partir de una sensualidad que podríamos llamar materialista, la memoria personal, con sus asechanzas, se diluye en la memoria colectiva para dejar más nítido el perfil de un tiempo compartido». Los claroscuros del balance moral en presente y sin excusas recuperan signos, nombres,...