"Item by item, a family assembles a Day of the Dead altar to honor the memory and welcome the spirit of a loved one. Award-winning author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh draws on his own life experiences to create this bilingual counting book." --

La gran aclamada colección de cuentos de Sandra Cisneros, autora de La casa en Mango Street y ganadora del PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2018, está ahora disponible en español. El arroyo de la llorona y otros cuentos le da vida a una asombrosa variedad de personajes y, como La casa en Mango Street, promete convertirse en un libro apreciado por lectores alrededor del mundo.

Lend an ear and you will know the secrets of the most talented and reckless, curious, rebellious and enterprising women of Mexico, who dared to break the mold. Disobeying can be a good idea. Being ordered is always nice and powerful, of course, but getting out of the huacal makes things interesting when the mandates are boring, when they do not let us move at our leisure, especially when they damage our soul. In those cases you have to invent your...

Do you know where the largest lake in South America is? Venezuela. Readers will be captivated by this vibrant book about the cultural traditions, festivals, music, art, dance, and cuisine of Venezuela. The culture of Venezuela is as multi-faceted as the people living there. The thorough text analyzes how its diverse landscape, with the tallest waterfall in the world, resources like oil, which Venezuela has the largest reserve in the world, and history...

"Pascual el dragón viaja a Asia. Descubrirá cómo juegan los niños, las tradiciones y fiestas populares de esas tierras y, como siempre, lo hará ayudando en todo lo que sea necesario."--page 4 of cover.

Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family. "A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de época: las peripecias de una dama...

It's fiesta time! Cinco de Mayo is a fiesta day in Mexico and the United States. It's celebrated on the fifth of May. This colorful holiday honors Mexico's victory over the French army at the Battle of Pueblo in 1862. People march in parades, dance, and set off fireworks. Families enjoy traditional Mexican food and drink. Then they watch people act out the famous battle. Find out more about this joyful celebration of Mexican culture.

Ana Karenina es una novela del autor ruso León Tolstói, publicada por primera vez en forma de libro en 1878. Muchos escritores la consideran una de las obras literarias más grandes jamás escritas, y el mismo Tolstói la llamó su primera novela verdadera. Inicialmente se publicó en entregas en serie desde 1875 hasta 1877, y todas menos la última parte aparecieron en el periódico El Mensajero Ruso.3​ Una novela compleja en ocho partes, con...

From Mexico's sunny beaches to its ancient ruins, readers have so much to discover about this amazing country! This title covers information like Mexico's common foods, its largest cities and capital, plants and animals, and things to see and do.

"With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals"--Container....