¿Dónde está el gas?

Book Features: • Ages 4-8, Grades PreK-2 • 16 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Simple, patterned Spanish text with full-color pictures • Includes comprehension questions, writing prompts, and high frequency words • Graphic organizers and photo glossary included Bring Learning to Life: In Listos para las Ciencias: ¿Qué es un Sólido?, preschoolers—second graders learn about different objects, shapes, and things that make up a solid. Science Made Fun: There are different types of solids. What objects hold their shape? Young readers learn about hard and firm solids, and what objects...

Filled with tricks and treats, fun and food, Halloween is a day that children look forward to. At one time two separate festivals, the traditions of each gradually blended into the holiday we now celebrate on October 31.

From the candiru to the lionfish, there are so many kinds of fish on Earth. While all have different methods of production, the basic life cycle is the same, from egg to spawning swimmers. Readers are introduced to this general cycle as well as the important vocabulary needed to talk about it, such as “fry” and “spawning.” Accessible language and simple diagrams throughout the book provide a way for struggling readers to tackle science curriculum content.

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.

La de Olvido García Valdés es ya una «de las escrituras más fervientemente medulares de la poesía española contemporánea» (Eduardo Milán). Seis años después de Y todos estábamos vivos, que mereció el Premio Nacional de Poesía, los poemas de Lo solo del animal vuelven a mostrar una voz singular y reconocible, que sin embargo rehúsa fijarse y afronta cada vez un riesgo nuevo, notable siempre en la altura de los resultados. Lo solo del animal propone una meditación sobre lo animal de la soledad, un lugar no verbal, de existencia, en que coincidirían todos los seres, pero que...