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Eudald Carbonell makes an amazing journey on board the Beagle, Charles Darwin's scientific boat. During this voyage the two men will have many adventures and help to explain how humanity has come to be as it is and what dangers and events have marked the evolution of our species: from the discovery of fire to genetic engineering.
The biggest box in the world isn’t just any old box. So Leonora, the cat in this story, can’t be without it. Leonaora isn’t just any old cat either. She collects cockroaches, balls of wool, feathers, and especially boxes. Coloured boxes of all different sizes.
A sound of breaking glass comes from the toilets at school. Carlos, alarmed by the noise, rushes there and finds Esther Sánchez, the most perfect girl in the school, lying on the floor with a cut to her head. He is surprised to find, lying next to her, a strange object which he immediately puts into his pocket.
Palim VI is the son of one of the builders on the Tower of Babel, and he discovers his immortality when he survives the fire at the Babylon library. From then on, he adopts a nomadic life that takes him from Homer’s Greece to the Spain of Felipe III, tsarist Russia, 1920s Paris, and a Buenos Aires that is polluted with fantastical and culturalist writers.
This book tells the seven-year story of a family through the crockery in their kitchen, which bit by bit gets broken, lost or used for other things, and demonstrates the losses, discoveries and changes that the family go through. The author won the Barco de Vapor award (Steamboat award) in 2012 and the Inventions in Children’s and Young Adult Narratives prize in 2011.
In this short story for children or for the parents who want to read it to them "Tommy Roca" tells us the start of the story of Little Kitty Mishifuz, who is abandoned as a young kitten and found in the garden of a pretty house on the Spanish Costa del Sol.
Practical ideas to help children grow up happy. Books that teach them to develop the necessary habits to resolve their emotional conflicts efficiently, overcome challenges and learn to think positively. In this story, Rita shows us tricks to deal with both physical and emotional pain.
A classic tale with vintage illustrations. The text is in Spanish, adapted to Level B1 (independent user threshold) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The book includes a glossary of words that are highlighted in the text, based on the classification level of the reader.
The star of this original book is a line. A simple pencil line that one day got bored with the pages of an exercise book and decided to escape from class. Happily off she goes to explore the world, and on her travels she discovers a city, climbs the highest mountains and finds the sea, where she comes across some very scary pirates.