Construyamos un patio de juegos (Building a Playground)

A community center has many exciting activities to choose from. You can play games, swim, and even learn how to cook there. As you read, you can compare the size of a tennis racket to a ping pong racket, use cubes to measure the world's smallest snake, and even use feet to measure the length of a basketball court. What would you use to measure a snake?

Practice nonstandard measurement at the zoo! This exciting, Spanish-translated title encourages readers to practice measuring their favorite zoo animals, such as elephants, giraffes, pandas, and more. A gorilla weighs the same as three men! When a cheetah runs, its stride length is the length of three men! An elephant weighs the same as three pickup trucks! Vivid images, fun practice questions, early STEM themes, and helpful mathematical diagrams make nonstandard measurement entertaining and easy for children to understand.

Rabbit burrows play an important part in the life of a rabbit. A burrow provides a place to live, a place to raise baby rabbits, and a place to stay safe from predators. This volume, which was written to support elementary science curricula, examines the role a burrow plays in the survival of a warren, and how that in turn helps rabbits contribute to ecosystems around the world. The text’s age-appropriate, science-rich content focuses on rabbit behavior and encourages readers to draw connections between what they learn in science class and what they see outside. This text is complemented by ...

Existen muchos tipos de inventos: inventos fáciles y difíciles; importantes o insignificantes; inventos para hacer reír e inventos que hacen llorar; inventos que sanan frente a otros que matan; inventos que nos ayudan a ser felices e inventos que ni siquiera lo intentan. Con este libro tendrás la oportunidad de pensar sin límites en tu propio invento. Esta colección consta de cinco libros, cada uno de los cuales incluye una serie de preguntas y de respuestas sobre temas que enriquecerán al niño en su visión del ser humano, la vida y el mundo. Las preguntas no solo generarán debates...

Las obras de Arte Antiguo de los grandes museos del mundo tienen una historia que se cuenta y otra que se oculta. Sharon Waxman ha investigado esta última: la historia de cómo fueron saqueadas de sus países de origen. Una historia turbia de expolio, sobornos, tráfico, subastas y, en numerosas ocasiones, daño o destrucción. La autora realiza un apasionante recorrido tanto por los principales museos occidentales (el Louvre, el British Museum, el Metropolitan de Nueva York...), como por los lugares de procedencia de las antigüedades (Egipto, Turquía, Grecia, Italia...), evocando los...

The pursuit and apprehension of art thieves in this activity book introduces young readers to the greatest artists and paintings of the 20th century. A hungry, art-devouring gang of mice is ruining the collection of paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art—and they must be captured. Having only small shreds of paintings that he has found scattered through the galleries, the director enlists the readers to help him identify the ruined works and track down the culprits. La búsqueda y la aprensión de criminales de arte introducen a jóvenes lectores a los grandes artistas y pinturas del...