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Would you like to meet a number that’s cheekier than a mouse on top of a piece of cheese? Well, don’t waste another second: open this book now! Soon you’ll learn how to make shadows with your hands, you’ll hear what an eight lying on its side has to tell you, you’ll applaud wildly when Claudio scores a goal, you’ll enjoy a lively chat with Mr.
A group of jobless people gets together every day in the park opposite the job centre where they met. One man always shares out his cigarettes, but one morning he doesn’t show up and they discover he has been murdered. Susano ate lunch with him the day before and is suspected of his death.
Nico is a new arrival in María's class. Nobody pays him much attention, because he's quiet and doesn't run or jump. Nico is a very special boy. But María knows how to look further than the others and invents a new way to play football, with hands. . . This picture book (for ages six and above) tells a moving story about friendship and disability.
With his usual style and warmth, Tommy Roca tells the story of the early days of Dandy, a kitten whose mother couldn't feed him because he had lots of siblings and she didn't have enough milk.
Since he lost his job Damien has been feeling confused. One day he steals something from an antique market and is forced to hide inside a wardrobe. But then the wardrobe is sold while he is still inside, and taken to Lucia and Fede’s bedroom, and Damien is stuck as though he were part of the furniture.
A devastating hurricane ravages the city of Mainauni. Three young homeless men and childhood friends, San, Ibo and Tayil, decide to take advantage of the chaos in the days after the disaster to loot the abandoned houses. San, the leader, is convinced of the success of his plan, and Tayil, obedient as always, supports him. But Ibo begins to think that another kind of life might be posible for him.
'The wind spread the news. It stank of tragedy...' The civil war in Spain is over. Rome is in the hands of a single man: Julius Caesar. But his ambition is limitless, and he knows a place in the hills to the north where a secret is hidden that would guarantee him the power he aspires to, the gold of Galicia.
In the year 2056 social amenities collapse and the countries of the world withdraw from large parts of the earth. The population flees hunger and epidemics. In a city somewhere, a group of families closes the well by which they live and join the river of the displaced. Thirty years later, the same area is nothing more than ruins, where small pockets of people survive.
A book containing 14 bilingual stories in Spanish and English for boys and girls, written by Beatriz Montero and Geeta Ramanujam. Its aim is to promote multiculturalism, bilingualism, imagination, the acquisition of vocabulary and a rapprochement of the two languages, Spanish and English, in a fun way.
Rivers, lakes, oceans and fountains have been a source of inspiration for many of history’s composers, creating music from the sensuality of such vital energy, and their work lets us dream and imagine water through sound; its clarity, the noise it makes as it flows, the shades of the sea.