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Cat watches the new tenants from the attic's balcony. Through the lighted windows he follows the family's movements, looking for the right moment to conquer them and enter their house. Will he be able to enjoy a daily meal, a roof over his head and a warm radiator to stretch out by once again?
Deep, sometimes eccentric, highly sensitive, brilliant creative minds... This work showcases twenty cultural geniuses of the twentieth century who contributed to the creation of a new and transgressive vision of the society in which they lived. Picasso, Dali, Hugo Pratt, Frida Kahlo... The Llorente siblings paint a penetrating and exciting picture of each of these prodigies.
Having a brother is very annoying! He's like a monkey, always clowning about. Having a sister is a pain in the neck! Everything I do is wrong and she won't let me play the way I want to. But sometimes brothers and sisters can be a great help, and together they have some good fun. Maybe having a brother or a sister isn't so bad… But a third brother or sister? No way.
Hi, my name is Petra and I'm very small, so small that hardly anyone notices me. But I dream of being big, very big, bigger than anyone else. These are the words of the main character of the story, a little pebble who dreams of being big, but who finds that in real life she is looked down on because of her size.
Professor Ueno buys a puppy for his daughter. The relationship between the professor and Hachiko, the dog, soon becomes a special one. Hachiko accompanies him to the station every morning and awaits his return at 5.30 in the afternoon. Every working day. Every month. Every year. A relationship based on friendship and loyalty has developed between them. And nothing can break it...
Inspired by La terre en rond, a mythical travel book about a round-the-world journey at the beginning of the sixties, undertaken by two Frenchmen in a Citroën 2CV, a young Galician called Jorge Sierra dreams of emulating their journey. After finding a companion ready to undertake the project, he prepares the 2CV he calls "Naranjito" for its orange bodywork.
Somewhere between journalistic chronicle, pamphlet, peasant drama and newsstand magazine, The Girls' History of Spain appropriates events and places in our recent history and returns them to us in the form of a corrosive, polyphonic and vibrant puzzle.
An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded.
The imagodon is an animal that is so hard to find that everybody is sure it doesn't exist (although, as you'll see in the book they will pay for their incredulity). There are also those who confuse it with the domestic camisaurous, but the imagodon doesn't look anything like it.