Catalogue Parramon Educational Books 2011

Parram贸n Catalogue

2011 I l l u st ra te d E d u ca t i o n a l B o o k s fo r Te a c h e rs a n d Fa m i l i e s

Parramón Catalogue

2011 I l l u st ra te d E d u ca t i o n a l B o o k s

Illustration on the cover: Mercé Gabí

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fo r Te a c h e rs a n d Fa m i l i e s

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ACTIVITY BOOKS HANDICRAFTS WITH COLORS

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THE LITTLE PAINTER

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5 STEPS

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LET’S CREATE!

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I HAVE FUN WITH…

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TINY HANDS / CREATIVE HANDS / ARTISTIC TINY HANDS

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PARTY FUN / ON STAGE

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LET’S LIVE MUSIC / LET’S PLAY WITH MUSIC

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CHILDREN’S EDUCATION SHALL WE TALK ABOUT IT?

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VALUES FOR LIVING TOGETHER / VALUES FOR GROWING UP

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DIVERSITY

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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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THE 250 BEST GAMES FOR ALL / 150 ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE THE CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT 14 PHYSICAL EDUCATION EXERCISES

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THE BIG BOOK OF GAMES / MUSIC AND CORPORAL EXPRESSION GAMES

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GAMES FOR INFANT EDUCATION

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GAMES IN MOVEMENT / TEACHING AND PLAYING

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ART FOR KIDS / SCIENCE FOR KIDS / MUSIC FOR KIDS

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IN FEW WORDS

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WITH FEET ON THE GROUND…

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FIRST READINGS

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MY NAME IS…

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SCHOOL NOTES

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MY FIRST ATLAS

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FIELD GUIDES

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GREAT ATLASES

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MY FIRST ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Handicrafts with Colors “What color would you paint Little Red Riding Hood?”, “How would you paint the sun on a day at the beach?”, “Did you know that our planet looks blue from out in space?” Questions like these are dealt with in this original collection designed to teach children to play with and recognize colors. With the presentation of real objects and scenes that have a relationship with their immediate environment and using simple plastic exercises, children will learn about the origin and possibilities of each color, its varieties, shades, etc., in a different, enjoyable way.

Green

Brown

Black & White

Blue

Yellow

Red

SPECIFICATIONS ACTIVITY BOOKS

• Intended for: children (5 and over),

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family/educators • 32 pages per title • 220 x 230 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 8 500 characters

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The Little Painter A terrific opportunity for young learners to discover the pleasure of painting! The objective of this innovative collection is to provide children with artistic interests with the concepts, forms and basic techniques of drawing and painting in a simple, enjoyable form. Designed by a specialist in art education for children, each book in the collection is dedicated to a particular technique (poster paints, watercolors, wax crayons, pastels, etc.) in order to facilitate the learning process. Little beginners will find in these books an excellent method for individual learning due to the ease with which the projects can be carried out and the direct style of the texts. They will also be very useful for all educators interested in developing creative and artistic capacities in children from age 8.

Pastels

Poster Paints

Markers

Colored Pencils

Watercolors

SPECIFICATIONS • Intended for: children (8 and over), family/educators • 48 pages per title • 240 x 300 mm • 4-color throughout

ACTIVITY BOOKS

Wax Crayons

• Hardback, paperback • 45 000 characters

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5 Steps

ACTIVITY BOOKS

This series encourages children’s creativity, teaching them various techniques for self-expression, using materials that are easy to obtain and achieving different, but always spectacular, results. Each of the books in this series offers 14 handicraft activities for a particular material. In them we can find anything from classic ideas to the most original ways for children to cultivate their aesthetic sense while developing their creativity.

Paper

Cloth

Clay

Plastic

Cardboard

Plasticine

Christmas

Recycled Material

Vegetables

Beads

Wood

Papier-Maché

SPECIFICATIONS • Intended for: children (5 and over), family/educators • 32 pages per title • 220 x 230 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

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Let’s Create!

Each of the books in this series offers 12 handicrafts for one material: plastic, cardboard, plasticine, and many more, for creating objects for decoration, playing, giving as presents or using in games. In addition, it includes useful didactic guidelines for families and educators concerning "art" corresponding to the educational cycle of boys and girls from 5 to 8 years old.

Cardboard

Plants and Seeds

Recycled Material

Cloth Plasticine Plants and Seeds Plastic Cardboard Paper Clay Wood and Cork Recycled Material Stones and Objects Papier-Maché Metals

Cloth Plasticine Plants and Seeds Plastic Cardboard Paper Clay Wood and Cork Recycled Material Stones and Objects Papier-Maché Metals

Paper

Wood and Cork

Papier-Maché

Plastic

Plasticine

Metals

Stones and Objects

Cloth

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SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 5 to 8 years • 32 pages per title • 240 x 300 mm

ACTIVITY BOOKS

Clay

• 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 20 000 characters

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I Have Fun With...

ACTIVITY BOOKS

This is the series on plastic arts that every child and teacher has been waiting for. A collection with clear, precise concepts on starting out in the plastic arts - drawing, painting and sculpture - with examples that are easy for the child to understand.

A series conceived for plastic arts education in pre-school SPECIFICATIONS • 6 volumes in a 4-color box • 48 pages per title • 270 x 240 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

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• 22 000 characters

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Tiny Hands / Creative Tiny Hands / Artistic Tiny Hands

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S•P5Etitles C I F IinC aA 4-color T I O N S box to pre-school teachers ••5Intended titles in a 4-color box ••Intended for pre-school 48 pages per title teachers ••48 pages per mm title 240 x 300 • 240 x 300 mm

• 4-color throughout

ACTIVITY BOOKS

These collections tackle subjects covering children's own knowledge and surroundings, both close and distant. These beautiful series will make pre-school educator's task in the field of plastic expression much easier.

• 4-color throughout

• Hardback, paperback

• Hardback, paperback

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Party Fun This collection is an indispensable tool for preparing all sorts of parties from Carnival to Halloween and for any sort of celebration -birthdays, graduations, etc. Each one of its four volumes contains 12 different proposals, among which we can find anything from classic ideas to the most original ways for boys and girls to use make-up, make masks and prepare costumes of objects or personalities.

SPECIFICATIONS • 4 titles in a 4-color box • Recommended age: 7 and over • 48 pages per title • 240 x 300 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 39 500 characters

On Stage!

Four volumes, each one containing two pieces of theatre to be staged. Each of the pieces includes a full description of all the steps necessary to put on a theatrical performance, and highlights too a specific aspect of theatre or type of performance.

SPECIFICATIONS • 4 titles in a 4-color box • Recommended age: 6 and over • 64 pages per title • Bind-up of 256 pages • 240 x 300 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

ACTIVITY BOOKS

• 110 000 characters

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Let’s Live Music Essentially intended for 8 to 12 year-olds, this collection aims to involve young readers in the marvellous world of music in a way that is natural, fun and full of participation.The series also includes two CD's, which feature activities that are useful for understanding the concepts explained and develop the child's auditory perception.

The most amusing way to approach music

SPECIFICATIONS • 4 titles in a 4-color box • Recommended age: 8 and over • 80 pages per title + 2 CD’s • 240 x 300 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 125 000 characters

Let’s Play with Music

SPECIFICATIONS • 2 titles in a 4-color box • Recommended age: 8 and over • 80 pages per title + 1 CD • 240 x 300 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

ACTIVITY BOOKS

Just like Let’s Live with Music, Let’s Play with Music offers play and teaching activities so that the child can explore the sound and language of music, working with the nature of sound, its various characteristics and the different aspects of music. Through this experience the child will develop in terms of perception, practice and improvisation. The two CDs that come with the book include useful exercises to help the child understand the concepts that are discussed.

• 125 000 characters

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Shall We Talk About It? Adolescence is the time to construct one’s place in the world. It is also a time of change, of progress, and of great discoveries. A new stage in life is opening up, full of new experiences, and with them come many questions about one’s own feelings.

Books in the series provide young people with clear information about two of the subjects they are interested in: sex and how to understand the inner force that seems both insatiable and inexhaustible; and different types of addiction and how life can be intense, fun and happy without them.

CPH AIRLEDNRTEINN’GS E D U C A T I O N

Essential books both for teenagers and their parents

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 10 and over • 96 pages • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout

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• Hardback, paperback • 155 000 characters

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Values for Living Together The book Values for Living Together consists of 20 chapters, each of which deals with one of the 20 values that were selected after an exhaustive study involving more than 800 educators and parents. The work also includes selections from classic texts, dialogues and modern narratives, and a series of activities chosen to be used with children of up to 7 or up to 12 years of age.

SPECIFICATIONS • Intended to educators and parents • with children from 7 to 12 years • 192 pages • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 250 000 characters

SPECIFICATIONS • Also available in 3 volumes of 64 pages

Values for Growing Up

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 6 and over • 192 pages • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 110 000 characters

C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

This book presents fifteen essential values to help shape a personality. The values are interconnected, and the goal is to promote suitable personal growth for the child, so that he or she also grows in all the other values in the world around them. It has a wealth of illustrations, including charts, diagrams, stories and situations typical of each value described. A layout with clearly arranged color backgrounds and easy to follow order in the text result in a book that is attractive as well as being useful for educators and the family.

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Diversity Nowadays, diversity is something that children live with. Racial, cultural and physical differences can be found in their close environment.

This is a book to be shared, to be read in group, to be discussed and explored, to question, to consult and to begin or continue the journey toward a respect for difference, whichever it may be.

Includes a board game to test and train the player’s emotional intelligence.

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 8 and over • 112 pages • 240 x 280 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 97 000 characters

C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

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Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is an important aspect of a person’s development which up until now has mainly been applied to adults. This book works five general areas of emotional skills: emotional awareness, emotional management, personal autonomy, interpersonal intelligence (social competence) and skills for life and well-being in children.

The activities in this book provide parents and educators with the tools for children to identify and manage their emotions.

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 8 and over • 192 pages • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

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• 130 000 characters

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The 250 Best Games for All One single volume includes the best games coming from the five continents and from many different cultures, adapted to the diversity of the families and social groups of the 21st century so that children can play, learn and have fun in any situation.

SPECIFICATIONS • Intended for: children/family/educators • 192 pages • 210 X 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 225 000 characters

150 Activities to Stimulate the Child’s Development A hundred and fifty activities or games that, as parents, we can share with our children from the time they are born until they are three. All the activities prompt the child to learn about himself or herself and about the environment, facilitating the creation of links, correcting body posture, teaching rhythm... and help to fix language in the child's mind through words and songs that as parents we should not forget to use.

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C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

• Intended for: children 0 to 3 years/educators/parents

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• 192 pages • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 196 000 characters

SPECIFICATIONS • Also available in 3 volumes of 64 pages

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Physical Education Exercises

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: from 6 to 12 years old, Educators • 192 pages • 210 x 275 mm

C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

A work aimed at both professionals in the field of physical education and teachers, monitors and all those educators who are involved in the development of children in primary school. Physical education is fundamental for the development of children and pre-adolescents, since it contributes to an education in values like cooperation, personal and collective effort, friendship, respect, knowing how to win and lose, and confronting challenges and uncertain situations which have to be dealt with following established guidelines. In short, we are talking about a teaching guide for the overall training of the child that takes into account all the bodily transformations and contexts of change affecting children from 6 to 12.

• 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 200 000 characters

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The Big Book of Games Compendium of games aimed at families and at education professionals, the book includes 250 games explained in a simple, colloquial language, accompanied by color diagrams and illustrations to make text more easily understood, and the work as a whole more attractive.

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: children/family/educators • 192 pages • 210 X 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 225 000 characters

Music and Corporal Expression Games

C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

A work that includes 150 games with full color illustrations, which will be very useful to educators who wish to promote a familiarity with music and body expression in children over 6. The book is divided into three parts of 50 games each. Most of the games refer to music and musical instruments. For this reason, and to make it easier for the teacher to use, we include a CD with selected passages from musical works that are most appropriate for each occasion.

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: from 6 years and over • 192 pages + 1 CD • 210 X 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

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Games for Infant Education

Educational games for pre-school teachers

SPECIFICATIONS • 3 titles in a 4-color box • Recommended age: from 3 to 6 years old, Educators • 96 pages per title • 210 x 275 mm

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This Series consists of three volumes, with different games in each one, grouped into three sections which follow the three basic areas of Infant Education: the Area of Identity and Autonomy, the Area of Discovery of the Environment and the Area of Communication and Representation.

• 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 110 000 characters

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Games in Movement This series consists of four volumes, each covering 75 different games. It will be extremely useful for educators of 3 to 6 year-olds in developing the concepts of rhythm, space, posture and corporal expression through the movement of the body in games.

SPECIFICATIONS • 4 titles in a 4-color box • Recommended age: from 3 to 6 years old, Educators • 80 pages per title • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 63 000 characters

Teaching and Playing

C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

This series is a complementary tool designed for educators, who through using it will achieve the objectives of Primary School in a way that is spontaneous and fun.In each of the four titles there are 50 games covering four of the most important areas of Primary School: Mathematics, Nature and Social Science, Visual and Artistic Expression, Physical Education.

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SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: from 6 to +12, Educators • 64 pages per title • 210 x 275 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 90 000 characters

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Art for Kids Observe art, because art attempts to surprise you and has done so in many different ways down through history.

Art for kids is an essential book, full of answers to all the questions young readers might ask when they find themselves in front of a work of art. It discovers hidden details and focuses on others that the artist has made clear and evident. It invites children to put their skills into practice, so that using their imagination they can learn to take advantage of the techniques, resources and even the tricks characteristic of each of the artists in the book (painter or sculptor).

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 8 and over • 96 pages + 16 pages with sheets of paintings + 1 cardboard easel fully cased with PLC overboard • also available in a volume of 128 pages • 240 x 280 mm • 4-color throughout • 109 000 characters

Science for Kids The book takes kids on an easy, enjoyable and fantastic journey through science based on the travels of the human race down through history, which have always been a stimulus for scientific progress. It is interactive, since it makes it possible for young readers to take part in doing the simple experiments in each chapter. It is illustrated with splendid photographs and comic style illustrations.

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 9 and over • 128 pages • 240 x 280 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback 1 UVI Bright 1 Die Cuts • Board Game • 103 000 characters

This book offers a marvelous trip through the world of sound, music, the voice and musical instruments, an exciting journey that will help us find out about the most important movements, composers, conductors and instruments of the history of music. With a great number of photos, drawings, points of interest, short biographies and activities for children to learn about, enjoy and fill their lives with music. Including a CD with excerpts from musical works that are representative of each historical period for listening before, during or after reading each chapter.

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 9 and over • 96 pages • 240 x 280 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback + Die Cuts

C H I L D R E N ’ S E D U C AT I O N

Music for Kids

• Music CD • 94 000 characters

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In Few Words This collection, aimed at children from 3 years, is intended to stimulate curiosity, transmit information and provide enjoyment, without losing sight of the development of a series of skills that small children need to learn in order to start out on the right foot in the world of reading.

The City

On a Trip

Jobs

The Plants

The School

At Home

Animals

The Senses

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 3 and over • 32 pages per title • 225 x 250 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

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A collection aimed at learning and using new words

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With Feet on the Ground...

I Turn Off the Light

I Sort the Garbage

I Turn Off the Water

I Protect Nature

Ecological Santa Claus

My Ecological Holiday

I Eat Bio-food

My Folder is Ecological

I Don’t Play with Matches

I Look Around Before Crossing

Say Good Morning to the Lady

My civic School

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 6 and over • 24 pages per title + 2 pages of stickers • 238 x 238 mm • 4-color throughout

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This collection responds to a need to give children an awareness of the serious ecological problems our planet is facing. And to protect the Earth, who could be better than the Green Elk? Guided by this new eco-hero, the children will see day-to-day situations presented as if in a big wall painting. In a humorous tone, the Green Elk will explain to them not only why water, light, recycling, animals and plants are so important to us but also how the children can help to care for the environment with their own small contributions from one day to the next.

In order to make this change of mentality possible the Green Elk gives the children some stickers as souvenirs to help them remember when to turn off the water, how healthy it is to eat fresh fruit, how to recycle, etc. In short, how to acquire habits that will make them tomorrow’s eco-citizens!

• Hardback, paperback • 13 000 characters

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First Readings

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A series that contributes to promote reading from early childhood, which is the ideal period in which to stimulate the child’s curiosity about the function of language. Each book describes, in simple language and with stimulating illustrations, real stories about characters who are children the same age as the target group the series is aimed at. It contains activities that help girls and boys to acquire good habits, ask themselves questions, conceive hypotheses and relate characters and situations.

Lisa’s Bag. Characteristics

My Dog Kin. Pets

The Visit.

Deduction

The Party.

Comparisons

The Red Pencil.

Caring for Objects

A Pair of New Shoes.

Measuring Time

The Clouds.

Forms & Sizes

The Boat.

Recycling

My Birthday.

Self Protection

Ines’ School.

School Routines

The Nest.

The Seasons

My Friends.

Diversity

The New House.

The Family

A Long Day. Parts of the Day

The Chocolate Cake.

The Five Senses

The Invitation.

Hygiene and Personal Grooming

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 4 and over • 32 pages per title • 225 x 250 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback

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My Name Is… A collection of biographies in which world figures tell about their lives and describe what the world was like during their lifetimes. An accurate text and a carefully selected style of illustration give the reader an overall view of the times and milieu these famous people lived in.

Christopher Columbus

Agatha Christie

Galileo Galilei

John Paul II

Gaudí

Anne Frank

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 9 and over • 64 pages per title • 150 x 215 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback, flexibook

John Lennon

Charles Darwin

Shakespeare

Picasso

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mozart

Marie Curie

Charlie Chaplin

Miguel de Cervantes

Cleopatra

Gandhi

Jules Verne

Alexander the Great

Vincent van Gogh

Marco Polo

Leonardo da Vinci

Saint-Exupéry

Albert Einstein

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School Notes Each volume offers students a school subject summarized and described in simple terms, making it possible for them to review and understand the most important concepts while also helping them to synthesize and focus on the basics. For parents it represents a guide for them to use in helping their children and for teachers a tool to help them with their presentations.

Chemistry

Literature

Biology

Mathematics

Anatomy

English

Physics

Geology

Botany

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A collection of titles vital to complement, expand and improve the child’s homework

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SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 12 and over • 96 pages per title • 140 x 220 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 192 000 characters

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My First Atlas

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 6 and over • 48 pages per title • 210 x 275 mm

English

The Earth

The Human Body

The Invertebrates

Vertebrates

Life

The Universe

Plants

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The adventure of learning begins with this collection, a series of books that present basic knowledge in an attractive, organized way, while at the same time providing a response to children’s natural curiosity. Attractive, easy to understand illustrations are accompanied by texts that are very simple but have a high level of teaching content.

• 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 35 000 characters

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Field Guides Direct observation of nature has always had a great fascination for young people. With the help of expert naturalists, this collection attempts to stimulate and satisfy that attraction by providing children with guidelines for enjoying nature and, at the same time, for discovering its richness and secrets.

Looking at the Fish

Looking at the Flowers

Looking at the Trees

Looking at the Sky

Looking at Mammals

Looking at Maps

Looking at the Birds

Looking at the Weather

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A new collection to help children enjoy nature!

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 9 and over • 32 pages per title • 270 x 240 mm • 4-color throughout • Hardback, paperback • 35 000 characters

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Great Atlases This is a series of reference books designed for students, in which a clear layout, an attractive presentation and precise illustrations combine to offer books that are practical, accessible and enjoyable. The list of a number of websites helps expand the scope of the student’s knowledge, makes looking for information more fun and encourages the use of the most modern and versatile of communication tools.

The Great Atlas of animals

The Great Atlas of the Human Body

The Great Atlas of the Cosmos

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 10 and over • 96 pages • 220 x 310 mm • 4-color throughout • hardback, paperback • 190 000 characters

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The Great Atlas of the Earth

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My First Encyclopedia This extraordinary book is a treasure chest of basic information. The concise, enjoyable texts and rich, educational illustrations make this book a valuable tool for learning and developing. Its pages provide the very best answers to the questions most frequently asked by young students.

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My First Encyclopedia

SPECIFICATIONS • Recommended age: 6 and over • 448 pages • 190 x 260 mm • 4-colour throughout • Hardback • 360 000 characters

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