El Cuento de un Burro

The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. Gilles de Rais, a 15th-century aristocrat and prolific serial killer, has been suggested as the source for the character of Bluebeard, as has Conomor the Accursed, an early Breton king.

Tito is a little dreamer who enjoys looking at the stars. He chooses one to keep him company and names her Tina. All of a sudden something unexpected happens—Tina falls into the room! Tito is afraid his friend might have been hurt, but she’s all right—she’s just come to say hi. Tito es un soñador pequeño que le gusta mirar las estrellas. Escoge una de compañera y la nombra Tina. ¡De repente algo inesperado ocurre—Tina cae del cielo al cuarto! Tito tiene miedo que su amiga se haya lastimada, pero ella está bien—solamente ha llegado para saludarle.

Presents a song in Spanish designed to promote language consciousness and reading readiness accompanied by a rhyming text in English and illustrations depicting a Latino boy's day, and followed by a literal translation into English.

Los relatos y cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe nos fascinan por el misterio, por el terror o por la intriga. Pero, sobre todo,nos atrapan porque esperamos que lo desconocido se revele, deseamos conocer las razones de nuestro miedo y ansiamos la solucion a los enig,as que nos propone. Leer a Poe es siempre la aventura de descubrir un mundo vedado y oscuro. y, co,,o Auguste Dupin, ver con claridad donde los demas solo hallan tinieblas. Con Poe, en fin, aprendemos a escudrinar el mundo que nos rodea, y esa investigacion policiaca se conciente, he su mano en una peripecia nueva y apasionante. En El...