Un Pulpo en el Mar

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Este libro ilustrado para niñitos muestra como duermen los papás de los leones, los caballos, los murciélagos, los flamencos, las tortugas, los erizos, y los seres humanos.

El koala es un marsupial que, en estado natural, sólo vive en Australia. Igual que las hembras de todos los marsupiales, como el canguro, las hembras de koala poseen una bolsa o marsupio, donde llevan a las crías y donde éstas se alimentan con la leche de las mamas. En este volumen, conocerás su forma de vida y sus costumbres.

California became a territory in the United States when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. That treaty ended the Mexican War. Several days before its signing, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in what is now Sacramento. The non-Native population of the territory was less than one thousand in 1848, but the gold rush increased that number to one hundred thousand by the end of 1849. The gold rush not only made many people wealthy, it brought ecologic devastation while speeding up California’s statehood. This book richly explores this interesting history.