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En su peregrinar por Japón, la fama de Musashi ha ido aumentando a la par que su creciente dominio del Camino de la Espada. Convertido en un espadachín ejemplar, los grandes señores del Japón feudal quieren emplearlo y hacer de él su siervo, convencidos de la tremenda valía de su brazo. Sin embargo, Musashi no es el único guerrero cuyo nombre está en boca de todos: como él, Sasaki Kojiro se ha hecho con una reputación sin parangón. Convertidos ambos sin discusión en los dos espadachines más importantes de su tiempo, sólo uno de ellos puede quedar como el más grande, en una...

Few kids can resist jumping into a big puddle. Getting wet can be fun. Learning to describe objects as wet can be fun, too, as evidenced in the bright, entertaining photographs and simple, engaging text in this motivating book. Readers will love to identify the objects within these pages, selected to appeal to them, and use the objects to comprehend new vocabulary words in corresponding sentences.

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy head? These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

It was September 14, 1814, and America and Great Britain were at war. Frances Scott Key watched from the deck of a British ship, where he was being held captive, as cannons exploded around them. After 25 hours, the fighting ceased and Key peered through the clearing smoke, looking for some sign as to the outcome of the battle. Was the American flag still flying? His wartime experience inspired Key to write a poem, which was later set to music and became America’s national anthem. This book tells the story of the inspiration behind our national anthem, which helped transform the flag into a...