Thomas Edison

The Industrial Revolution was one of the most dramatic eras of all time, filled with fascinating people, strange events, and incredible stories. This period of great change comes into sharp focus through each spread with detailed, accessible language. Each fact is complemented with vivid, carefully-chosen historical images and illustrations, and a caption that adds just a touch more history. Readers are drawn deep into the facts not covered in history textbooks, like working conditions, inventions, failures, and characters, to make this important history lesson fun and engaging.

El libro del pan (The Bread Book) helps Spanish readers strengthen their multiplication, division, and fractions skills while learning interesting facts about bread. Students will learn about wheat grain, nutrition, and bakeries with this nonfiction math reader. This classroom resource includes a glossary, engaging images, mathematical diagrams, and a fun historic timeline of bread to help students develop their math and reading skills.

Day of the Dead is a very important holiday in Latin America. It is sometimes incorrectly thought of as a morbid holiday, or a Mexican version of Halloween. While the word "dead" or "muertos" is in the name, this holiday is the way that the people of Mexico honor the lives of ancestors, celebrate the joy of life, and connect with their Mexican heritage. Young readers will enjoy the amazing, colorful photographs of the Day of the Dead celebration, and a supportive glossary helps expand their vocabularies along with their cultural awareness.

La disputa entre los animales y el hombre es una pequeña obra maestra de la literatura árabe recogida en la Enciclopedia de los Ijwân al-Safâ; («Hermanos de la Pureza», secta filosófica del mundo islámico del siglo X que supo aunar la sabiduría persa y el legado de Grecia con el espíritu religioso del Islam). La disputa es un apólogo de grandes pretensiones en el que se pone en tela de juicio la superioridad del hombre sobre los animales. Con un lenguaje vivo y lleno de colorido muestra las observaciones zoológicas de la época a la vez que critica la sociedad de aquel momento e...

This book will increase your child's vocabulary in English and Spanish by associating numbers with beautiful pictures and touch and feel elements.