Un mar de historias: Altamira

Teach students about trading and buying goods and services. In this Spanish-translated book, readers will learn about supply and demand, and learn the difference between wants and needs. Featuring images that support the informational text, students will build social studies content-area literacy and reading skills.

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

Un día de verano, debajo de un árbol, la hermana de Alicia estaba leyendo un libro. Alicia la escuchaba, pero era un libro muy aburrido. De repente pasó un conejo blanco con levita corriendo y gritando: "¡Se me hace tarde!". Con el pretexto de alejarse de ahí, Alicia siguió al curioso conejo. Y así comienza una larga serie de aventuras en El País de las Maravillas... One summer day, under a tree, Alicia's sister was reading a book. Alicia listened to her, but it was a very boring book. She suddenly passed a white rabbit in a frock running and yelling: "I'm late!" On the pretext of...

Knowing when to say we're sorry means knowing when we've hurt someone, whether it was intentional or not. This is not always easy to do, especially for children. This book presents readers with a variety of relatable scenarios in which young people recognize the need for an apology. Readers follow Louis as he shares an embarrassing secret about Aaron with his other classmates, who make fun of Aaron. Louis feels bad for sharing Aaron's secret. What can he do? Each colorful spread presents a different real-life situation that will instill in readers the importance of knowing when to say, "I'm...