Velocidad sin vuelo (Fast and Flightless)

Young children are natural problem-solvers and always looking for answers, especially when it involves interesting animals. This Spanish-language edition of Scaly Swimmers provides young curious readers with striking visual clues and simply written hints. Using the photos and text, readers rely on visual literacy skills, reading, and reasoning as they solve the animal mystery. Clearly written facts give readers a deeper understanding of how the animal lives. Additional text features, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

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Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....

El Rocío era, hasta ahora, una fiesta muy vivida, muy glosada y muy cantada. Sin embargo, o tal vez por eso mismo, El Rocío era, hasta ahora, una fiesta que no había sido escrita. El polvo del camino, sin embargo, entra de lleno en ese espacio húmedo, cenagoso, a veces fétido y a veces aromático, de la romería de todas las romerías. Su autora, Eva Díaz Pérez, hace el camino del edén rociero, y descubre una inmensa y genial representación, un teatro del mundo que a veces suena a tragedia griega, y que la mayor parte del tiempo está metido en las arenas movedizas de la farsa, del...

The history of the feast! After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn't know it at the time, but they were making history, celebrating what would become a national holiday.