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This book addresses different types of brothers and sisters and the relationships they have, using a fun and light approach with colourful and warm illustrations.
Hermonías is a book to encourage learning through playing with the rhythms of language either at home or at school; it's a way for children to interiorise human values such as equality and respect for differences; it's a gift to free the imagination and encourage children to value nature; it's a window opening to motivate the study of other languages.
Right from the novel’s intriguing title –Hotels of Silence –, Javier Vásconez drags us to the brink of horror. For is there anything more chilling than the sound of a child’s cry piercing the night from inside a hotel? However, the greatest achievement of Hotels of Silence is perhaps its ability to trace various stories of desperate humanity in one novel.
Everyday scenes created and illustrated by Judy Kaufmann from a noisy, boisterous and unusual universe where therianthropic creatures live. The book has fifteen silent and transitory stories on removable pages for you to colour and bring to life.
It's not easy to get it right at first. Texts don't always come out perfectly. A zero is round and so is a meatball and a potato. Things aren't what they seem... or are they? A manual for writers. Does fiction imitate reality? Does reality beat fiction? Is the author conducting the orchestra or just watching? Does the reader just read of do we interact with him? Is a writer born or made?
Dora is a journalist on a local paper where her job is to fill the boring pages of the cultural news section. Each day she has to travel on the commuter train from the suburbs, where she lives, to Barcelona, where she works, and back again.
In an adulterous relationship, the lovers exchange true and false sentiments with the same conviction. It is an intimate setting with no witnesses. But what happens if the false is true, and the truth is fear of replacing the spouse? The anonymous narrator of this story doesn't write to resolve this conflict; he contents himself with 'being the other', with understanding infidelity.
A fantasy novel for children and young adults with a message about the environment, demonstrating how its deterioration is due not only to our lifestyle, but also to our indifference to nature. Koko considers herself “disorganised, forgetful and a bit of a scatterbrain”. She lives in the future, when the lands lie devastated and depleted from an environmental disaster caused by humans’ stupidity.
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.