Vaquero

Introduces the concepts of short and tall, comparing some of the world's shortest and tallest animals.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Invite readers to see what goes on behind the scenes at a school carnival! With informational, Spanish-translated text, vibrant photos and helpful charts, children are engaged from cover to cover while utilizing mathematic skills to learn the basics of planning, income, estimates, and budgeting.

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...

«Un acontecimiento terrible tuvo lugar durante la infancia de la bisabuela y las consecuencias se extienden a lo largo de generaciones. Es un libro sobre el impacto de los acontecimientos políticos y familiares, sobre la forma en que se transmiten los recuerdos, sobre cómo la Historia influye en las historias particulares.» Así define la galardonada escritora francocanadiense Nancy Huston su última novela, que además del Premio Femina 2006 obtuvo un enorme éxito en Francia con más de 400 mil ejemplares vendidos hasta la fecha. A través de los relatos de cuatro niños, desde la...