Libros en Inglés

Story of how crayons are made!

It's a bright sunny day at the amusement park, and you can't wait to ride some rides! This isn't just any old outing, though. You'll never guess what―or who―you encounter. Filled with excitement and hilarity, this compositional challenge lets you tell your very own story starring...YOU! Combining National Geographic Kids' photography and illustrations in colorful laugh-out-loud pages, this engaging, entertaining, and educational book takes you on a fun-filled adventure through the amusement park and invites you to imaginatively enter a new world by writing your own wild and wacky story.

An ancient Egyptian goddess has transported you back to ancient Egypt! What happens next is up to YOU! Filled with excitement and hilarity, this compositional challenge lets you tell your very own story starring...YOU! Combining National Geographic Kids' photography and illustrations in colorful laugh-out-loud pages, this engaging, entertaining, and educational book introduces you to this amazing ancient civilization, and invites you to enter a new world imaginatively by combining your story with theirs.

Travel back in time and into the not-so-distant future to dissect, explore, and discover how all kinds of things do what they do! Along the way, you'll learn why cotton candy is so fluffy, how scientists built a space suit for Mars, and what goes into animating your favorite cartoons.

Look inside, take it apart, turn it over, and figure out how things work! Quippy descriptions, full-color diagrams, and brilliant photographs make even the most intimidating subjects completely accessible--and totally fun! (We're looking at you, space robots.) For every explanation, we touch on basic principles and then dive deeper. Just want to know what terraforming is? We've got you covered. Want to know how to terraform, say, Mars? We'll explain that, too.

But this book isn't just for explaining things. We'll also introduce you to the dreamers, scientists, and innovators who create this amazing stuff. You'll meet a NASA engineer, an underwater archaeologist, and a chocolate scientist. You'll learn what it's like to fly a plane into the eye of a hurricane--on purpose.

Following on the success of National Geographic's How Things Work and How Things Work: Inside Out, How Things Work: Then and Now tackles a whole new batch of extraordinary and everyday things--from man-made to natural, historic to futuristic.

This book has over a dozen wacky fill-in stories starring George, Harold, the Amazing Captain Underpants, Professor Poopypants, Cafeteria Lady Edith, the Turbo Toilet 2000, and all your other favorites from the movie. Plus tra-la-la-riffic stickers! Lexile 200, Guided Reading Level D,, 32 páginas, Tapa Blanda, 1x14x19 cms, Dav Pilkey, 5 a 8 años.

This book introduces readers to the history and importance of food safety, the bacteria that cause food to be unsafe, safety in the food industry both in the United States and around the world, and what to do to keep food safe to eat.

The number of monsters engaged in various activities at a picnic always adds up to ten.
Includes related activities. Lexile 200, 32 páginas, Tapa Blanda, 1x16x23 cms, Grace Maccarone, 5 a 8 años.

It's another scary day at the Black Lagoon. . . .
Mrs. Green tells her students that they're going to have a class pet! Hubie's imagination goes wild. Will the new class pet have fangs, horns, or headlights? Will it be vicious? Who knows what kind of monster Mrs. Green will bring in?
Hubie's worst fears are nearly realized, when Mrs. Green brings in a big cage. What could be inside?

Lizzie sees finds Spirit in a snow storm. Spirit is a white German shepherd puppy! It's owners found new homes for all of his brothers and sisters, but they still don't have a place for him. Can Lizzie find a home for this helpful little pup? 

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain describes in rhythmic, read-along verse how Ki-pat a resourceful man finds water for his thirsty herd and ends the drought afflicting the plain. 

Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have melted. He must find another way to raise money--and fast! Ed uses his newfound ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go wrong! Lexile 480, 96 páginas, Tapa Blanda, 1x14x20 cms, David Lubar, 5 a 8 años.

Sparky heads to Paris, where his new friend helps him find some delicious food. In return, Sparky decides to help him find a human friend of his own. But then both crash into an artist's paint cans and get colorful paw prints all over his canvasses!