Carlos

A grandmother shares with her granddaughter a story about a witch named Befana who invites her to attend a stocking party.

Rhyming verse describes the good food, decorations, and stories when grandmother arrives for the annual celebration of the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead.

A young capybara is anxious to grow up to be able to do what his parents can do, until he realizes that he is just the right size to have fun his own way.

An elephant suddenly finds himself burrowed inside the den of a leopard. Terrified, he asks for help. The leopard, following an absurd logic, teaches him how to escape from the den. Then, to the leopard's horror, he finds himself immersed in the deep sea. Here begins the chain of unexpected and desperate situations where we find many animals acting as "fish out of water." The animals continually help one another in these unfamiliar environments by applying common sense. An illustrated story with artistic collages, this book features color in a vivid new way.

Esta selección de cuentos constituirá una sorpresa para muchos lectores, que siempre han creído que los pulgarcitos, las cenicientas, los barbazules y las bellas durmientes pertenecían exclusivamente a Francia. Ráfagas de humor y realismo recorren nuestros cuentos, esa forma de arte mítico popular que, como dice Clarín, ha rebotado de literatura en literatura, y que en España ha tenido tal importancia por haber sido nuestras letras uno de los puentes por donde se comunicaron Oriente y Occidente...

High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

Escrita en un doble plano narrativo, es una novela que mezcla elementos del thriller policíaco y de la novela juvenil con la más clásica tradición de la novela histórica de corte medieval. La trama se desarrolla a medio camino entre la época medieval y el siglo actual, siendo el hilo conductor entre ambas épocas un objeto misterioso, dotado de extraordinarios poderes que atrae la atención de las protagonistas. El final es tan sorprendente como inesperado.