Marta Alvarez est une illustratrice de livres pour enfants célébrée, dont le travail regorge de couleurs joyeuses et de personnages attachants. Elle emploie des techniques numériques qui lui donnent la liberté d'explorer des palettes vibrantes et des textures, tout en travaillant également avec des médiums traditionnels comme la gouache et l'aquarelle. Son style distinctif, marqué par des teintes vives et des représentations animées d'enfants et d'animaux aux célèbres joues roses, a captivé aussi bien les éditeurs que les lecteurs.
What is poo? Does everyone do it? And where does it all go? Children can lift the flaps to find the answers in this surprisingly charming book, and discover how much poo an elephant does, and what you can do with poo... There's even a Who did these poos? quiz. A very informative little book!Gold Winner - Made for Mums Awards 2017Silver Winner - Junior Design Awards 2017
What are stars? is the third in the Very First Questions & Answers series, following on from What is poo? and What are germs? It explores how stars aren't just the pointy shapes we know - in fact the tiny twinkly stars in the night sky aren't star-shaped at all and they aren't tiny. They're actually massive burning balls. The book goes on to explain how stars make patterns in the sky, how the Sun is our nearest star, and how shooting stars aren't stars but whizzing lumps of space rock. Charmingly illustrated by Marta Alvarez-Miguens, each page has flaps to lift and find out more.
What happens when you fall asleep? Why do we need sleep? And what are dreams? Curious little children can lift over 30 flaps to find the answers to these questions and many more in this delightful introduction to sleep, with simple explanations and gorgeous illustrations on every page.
What would you be if your finger bones grew so long that they reached your feet? You'd be a bat! What if you had no leg bones but kept your arm bones? You'd be a whale, a dolphin, or a porpoise! This entertaining picture book will keep readers guessing as they learn about how our skeletons are like―and unlike―those of other animals. How are you similar to animals? How are you different? These entertaining picture books from educator and veterinarian Sara Levine and illustrator T.S Spookytooth explore comparative anatomy and give readers the chance to find out how their skeletons, teeth, and eyes match up with a wide variety of animals from the past and present. Packed with surprising animal facts that will delight readers of all ages!
Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling! With bedtime fast approaching, young Latinx scientist Marco wants to sort his stuffed animals into categories that will help them comfortably settle down. He observes, compares, and groups, but the animals refuse every classification. Finally Marco combines math with empathy to get the most important result: maximum snuggles. The Storytelling Math series shows that all children can be mathematical thinkers. Each book includes ideas for exploring math at home with your children, developed in collaboration with math experts at STEM education nonprofit TERC Inc., under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned. Treasure Island is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice-intelligent, perverse, relentlessly self- extricating, and funny.
The collection of studies included in this special volume of the CENTRO Journal show evidence of how post disaster recovery is progressing in Puerto Rico, and the challenges and opportunities for local participation in reconstruction programs. To date, the available evidence leads to a portrait of an uneven recovery. A recovery characterized by the bifurcation of efforts from the civic sector and central and federal governments. The studies included in this special volume of the CENTRO Journal analyze challenges and opportunities for local participation in reconstruction programs and their potential to contribute to post disaster recovery in Puerto Rico.
"A young girl hears messages that she's too sensitive and needs to change. The messages travel into her body, and she ultimately changes the negative comments into an affirmation that being sensitive is her strength"--
What kind of dinosaur had a bony ridge that rose up from the back of its skull and three horns poking up from the front? A triceratops! This lively picture book will keep readers guessing as they find out what they might look like if they were a variety of different dinosaur species. Full color.