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Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

Acompañado de bellas ilustraciones, esta historia captura los sentimientos de una niñita que hace dibujos en la condensación de las ventanas mientras espera que su mamá regrese a casa.

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

Al principio de todo, los cuervos tenían un pelaje multicolor: eran rosas, lilas o verdes, a veces tenían topos o rayas según las diferentes familias. Los cuervos vivían juntos y felices, pero un día un muñeco de nieve hizo una pregunta fatídica: "¿Cómo