¿quién Es Carmen Sandiego?

"En cada página de este 'delicioso' libro encontrarás un nuevo color y una fruta diferente, ¡ una gran sorpresa final!"--

The chamarilero is a young muchacho who sells chácharas, smokes like a chacuaco, treats his friends to chupirules and never fails to amuse everybody with his chango. With the help of the merry chamarilero and 95 other words containing the digraph ch, this fun book will help young readers unleash their imagination and learn some fun new words in the process.

While Benjamin waits for his father to pick him up from school, he doesn't hear the screams of the kids playing dodge ball on the playground. The only thing he hears is, "a word. The word." Earlier that day, Benjamin beat his friend James while playing handball, and James retaliated by calling Benjamin "the word." With soft, watercolor illustrations that complement the text, Benjamin and the Word / Benjamín y la palabra is a compelling look at name-calling and intolerance. When confronted with James' epithet, Benjamin and the reader set off on a poignant journey to understanding and...

Mark Twain, uno de los humoristas más grandes de todos los tiempos, nos muestra en dos personajes antagonistas cómo la vida, en realidad, no es como debería ser. "Historia de un niñito bueno" e "Historia de un niñito malo", guardan ya el sabor de los mejores momentos de la ironía característica de su obra tardía: Jacob es obediente y bien portado pero, curiosamente, todo le sale mal; en cambio Jim es malicioso y travieso pero siempre termina saliéndose con la suya. Dos historias para saborear con un buen sentido del humor.