INFANTILES Y JUVENILES

La princesa está aburrida y no sabe qué hacer. Finalmente, decide ponerse a tejer, se compra unas agujas, mucha lana y dos gatos, y ¡manos a la obra! Es así como está inquieta princesa abriga con su bufanda a todo el reino... y, después, elige otro pasatiempo.

El clima de nuestro planeta permite a millares de seres, incluidos los hombres, vivir en su superficie. Pero su equilibrio está amenazado. "Nanook, Aventura en el Ártico", "Toco, la selva herida" y "Sathu, un paraíso inundado" son tres cuentos que ilustran los problemas ecológicos causados por el calentamiento de nuestro planeta: - En el polo Norte, Nanook, el osezno blanco, explora el mundo de la banquisa, maravilloso pero frágil. - En el interior de la selva amazónica, el hogar de Toco, el tucán, de pronto de ve invadido por los bulldózers. - La maravillosa isla del océano Pacífico donde vive Sathu, hija de un pescador, es protegida por un arrecife de coral.. Sathu ve como su escuela desaparecerá debajo del agua. · Tres hermosas historias para sensibilizar a los niños ante los grandes problemas ecológicos actuales, que les enseñará a respetar nuestro planeta y a tomar en cuenta sus fragilidades. · Este álbum evoca la responsabilidad del hombre en la degradación de los ecosistemas y las repercusiones de su negligencia, que causa daños al conjunto de los seres vivos.

Un niño campesino llega a la ciudad en circunstancias difíciles. Su padre ha migrado a otro país ante la dificultad de sostener económicamente a su familia. Junto a otros niños que habitan la calle, luchará para sobrevivir en una sociedad indiferente.

Katie Carew, nicknamed Katie Kazoo by the class bully, had no idea what would happen when she wished that she could be anyone but herself. But now her wish has come true, and-switcheroo!-she keeps turning into other people and even animals! What is one ordinary third-grade girl with a really extraordinary problem to do? It’s a good thing Katie is resourceful and smart enough to find a solution for every problem . . . no matter how much of a disaster she causes! Katie can’t stand George, the class bully. He constantly picks on everyone, but he really torments Katie. One day, she can’t stand it anymore, and she wishes she could be anyone but herself. What she doesn’t see is the shooting star that flashes through the sky at that moment . . . catapulting Katie into a crazy series of adventures, starting the next day when she turns into the class hamster! Will she be trapped in a glass cage forever? Will she ever be a girl again?

Katie and Suzanne want to see the new big movie, Tornado, but neither of their parents will let them. As Suzanne complains loudly about always being treated like her baby sister, Katie actually becomes Suzanne's baby sister, Heather. When Katie is Heather-she speaks. Find out how Katie gets out of this one!

The Beginner Book Story "Ten years ago, Dr. Seuss took 220 words, rhymed them, and turned out THE CAT IN THE HAT, a little volume of absurdity that worked like a karate chop on the weary little world of Dick, Jane and Spot." —Ellen Goodman, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Nov. 1966 From this magically right beginning came the concept of Beginner Books, exacting blends of words and pictures that encourage children to read — all by themselves. Hailed by elementary educators and remedial reading specialists, these enormously popular books are now used in schools and libraries throughout ti the English-speaking world.