Una mano a la pata: Protegiendo los animales

Readers learn about the various animals that need help and what they can do to make a difference through volunteerism in this engaging book. Discover different programs and organizations that work to protect animals, animal habitats, and endangered species through vibrant images and charts and informational text. Featuring a list of helpful and useful websites, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title encourages readers to take part in animal activism in any way they can--from baking homemade dog biscuits to exploring careers that help sick or injured animals.

Animal trainers care for many different types of animals! Children will explore some of the methods that trainers use, such as affection bonding and classical and operant conditioning, while simultaneously gaining an understanding of animal instincts and animal rehabilitation. Readers are invited to learn about the variety of animals that trainers work with and are encouraged to find an area of study to focus on if they want to become an animal trainer. With stunning images, interesting facts, a glossary of useful terms, informational text, and an interview with a real-life animal trainer,...

Introduce readers to the various ways they can participate in volunteerism with this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers will discover many different charities and programs, including The Salvation Army, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, and Doctors Without Borders through vivid images, charts, and informational text. This nonfiction title aids in encouraging children to make a difference in their own communities by writing to newspapers or politicians or by participating in fund-raising and various programs or charities. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a...

Book Features: • Ages 5-8, Grades K-2 • 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages in Spanish with full-color pictures • Includes a glossary, index, and an engineering design activity • Supports NGSS Digging Up Facts: In Mi Biblioteca de Ingeniería: Diseño y Construcción en la Tierra, kindergarten—second graders learn about what engineers have to think about in order to build houses and other important structures in the dirt. Engineering Made Fun: Dirt is under everything that people build from the ground up. Young readers learn how engineers dig, move, and...

November 1940. A circus parade walks through the streets of Warsaw, waving a flag and singing. They are 160 Jewish children, forced by the Nazis to leave their beloved orphanage. It's a sad occasion, but led by Doctor Korczak, their inspirational director, the children are defiantly joyful. Their new home is in the ghetto, a prison for Jews. Two years later they board the train that will carry them away to the death camps. Offered his freedom, Doctor Korczak refuses to abandon the children and proudly joins them on their last journey. This profoundly moving illustrated book is based on the...

Sep forces the moon to give him his wish, to be the maker of enchanted fiddle music but almost pays a horrible price for it.

Un día el hombre creó, a partir de piedras y palos, su primera herramienta, y desde ese día comenzó a transformar el mundo con su trabajo. Lo que primero fue piedra más tarde sería martillo, así como las cavernas se convirtieron en rascacielos. La historia es una lección de humildad. Los hombres y mujeres que aprendieron del pasado y pudieron soñar y construir un futuro mejor fueron aquellos que no se vivieron como individuos aislados, sino formando parte de una gran tarea colectiva: la aventura de la humanidad.