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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.
Víctor Durán, a talentless writer who had a tough childhood, has just become divorced from a well-known painter. When she is found dead with a strange drawing on one of her thighs, Víctor becomes a suspect in the investigation led by Elena Marquez, a tough police inspector.
Ignasi and María were destined to part from the beginning. When she arrives at a new school, everyone knows María's story: her mother is in a coma in hospital, after a brutal beating. But María won't let her dark past hold her back and soon she is at the centre of every circle. Her smiles and jokes make her shine in the group.
There’s a party going on on Planet Gouda and Cosmic Cat, the intrepid space explorer, doesn’t want to miss it. What should he wear? What will happen on the way there? You might find clothes, wigs, aliens, planets or meteorites! Choose and draw whatever you think is the most fun on each page; you can make your own story and change it as many times as you like.
Sandra's life has turned around completely in the last eighteen months. After escaping the deceitful clutches of a group of entirely un-innocent elderly people based in the peaceful town of Dianium, she moves to Madrid with her newborn son, Janín.