El Caballero Pequeñito... Y Su Caballo Chiflado

Cyril is a squirrel; Renata is a rat, and they are very good friends. But the rest of the animals in the park think that a squirrel and a rat shouldn't play together. With a perfect mixture of humor and sensibility, Emily Gravett offers us a story about tolerance, diversity, and the power of friendship.

Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.

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...

Este libro contiene los más hermosos relatos de la cosmogonía de algunas culturas amerindias de Venezuela, entre ellos los piaroa, los yukpa, los wayuu, los chaima y hasta los tamanaco, de quienes se sabe poco. Cada historia ofrece un marco referencial, cultural y geográfico del pueblo indígena a través de un acompañamiento cálido de la autora, que permite recrear el contexto desde donde habla cada informante, cada descendiente y vocero de estas culturas. Un legado invaluable de la oralidad de los pueblos originarios, que hará transitar a los lectores por universos de interpretación...