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Can you imagine being a flesh and blood person living in a paper world? The intrepid Candela returns with a new adventure full of folds and origami figures. What is origami, you ask? Well, it’s the same as paper folding but in Japanese.
Life has put aside something special for Alfonso, a young architect who has fallen apart after the loss of his father: a treasure hidden from the West for centuries. A trip to the desert shows him that death is not the end of being, but only a state of being. His own near-death experience later confirms this intuition.
Isa is a writer for hire, the author of biographical style books that never see the light of day. Just as she decides to give up this work, Francisco appears. He's someone following a dream, to regain a past love that continues to torment him, with confused reasons for hiring Isa's services.
This book of experiments aims to show children that science is present in many activities experienced in daily life, without us being aware of it most of the time. The suggested experiments aim to help the reader to understand and share an interest in science and its effect on the world around us.
Near the big city is La Rosa Negra (The Black Rose) an immense, ruined mansion, apparently abandoned. Cloaked in an atmosphere of claustrophobia, the house is surrounded by a forest of spectral trees, blackened statues, secret cellars and memories from other times. One night chance leads two fifteen year-olds, Sergio and Clara, to enter into this shadowy kingdom.
I'm looking for my dog, Coco. I lost him while I was walking him in the park. Coco isn’t long or boring, pink or mischievous, small or fearful, stretched or nervous, fat or smiley ... Will you help me look for him? It’s a common premise we’ve seen many times before. Boy loses dog (or cat, parrot or platypus) and goes looking for it. Boy asks questions until he finds it.
Led by Ramos’ loveable characters, our youngest readers learn to match the colours to their names through games and challenges. The book comprises twenty double-page activities that reveal the magic of colours.
In this book, Laura Gamerro and Manu Callejón present one of the most common childhood fears - the possibility that a monster is living in some hidden corner of the house - and the perfect way to conquer it: a manual of simple instructions with which the protagonists will trap their monster.
"Once upon a time there was a writer who didn't know what to write. She had everything she needed to do it: a computer, a functioning plug socket, some comfy slippers and a decent amount of time.
Maita is a little girl who has just moved house. On her adventure, she will discover friends both old and new. Do you want to meet her? Get to Know Me is an illustrated book of discovery, of curiosity about little things and of subtle revelations. It’s about getting lost and finding yourself many times over.