Los mundos mágicos de Harry Potter

Behind the unforgettable characters, worlds, and battles of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit lie a vast range of world myths and historical events that originally inspired J. R. R. Tolkien. From the Finnish epic poem Kalevala and the medieval Beowulf to Arthurian mythology, Shakespeare, and even World War II, Tolkien's sources are unpacked and explained for the novice and connoisseur alike. Laid out in dictionary form, this indispensable guide provides insights not only into literature's most beloved fantasy, but also into the man who brought it to life.

Simple text and photographs introduce the animals of the Arctic, grouped to provide practice in solving easy addition problems.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

A collection of poems evoking the lullabies sung by mothers to their children. Also includes three prose sections in which Federica Garcia Lorca, Gabriel Celaya, and Gabriela Mistral write about children's poety and lullabies.

Georgina L�zaro presents the life of Rub�n Dar�o, father of Modernism, in this new addition to the award-winning series Cuando los grandes eran peque�os