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What strange impulse feeds the friendship between a teenager—a good student, the son parents with no connection to eccentricity, indifferent to his literary aspirations—with a man of no fixed abode who throws money of dubious origins about and introduces him into a world of completely new, risky, ever sordid experiences?
If you haven't yet thought about what you want to be when you grow up, use your imagination! You might be trying to choose between teaching the alphabet or curing grown-ups and children. A title in the "Oroneta" collection, composed of 10 stories that use fun and ingenuity to introduce young readers to everyday concepts in their world.
Mónica — known to everyone as Minimoni — likes painting thousands things in colour: blue skies, penguins, gorillas… but she's never painted a kiss. Because… what colour is a kiss? Red like the tomato sauce for spaghetti? Maybe not, because that's the colour of anger… And what about green, like the crocodiles she loves so much? Hmm… definitely not!
Young Daniel Villena goes on holiday with his family to a small seaside town. There he meets an extraordinary boy who mysteriously appears and disappears and is able to enter his dreams and turn them into genuine nightmares. One day, Daniel receives an anonymous letter containing thirteen threatening words: "Let the dead rest in peace or you'll soon be one of them".
Ever since Nerea was a little girl, her father has been telling her the same story: when she grows up, one day somebody special will wake her with true love's kiss, just like Sleeping Beauty. But these things happen when you least expect them. Nerea has not been lucky in love. Her childhood sweetheart turns out to be a liar, which leaves her with a mistrust of all men.
In a beautiful, desolate place, the death of a grandfather brings together all the members of a family. Beside the reservoir that swamped their home almost fifty years before, and where Domingo's ashes will lie for eternity, each member of the family silently reflects on their relationship with him and the others, and on how exile marked all their lives.
A furious old dog, trees with sinister branches, a wolf running away from two monsters and a white puppy lost in the woods. All these adventures and a few more surprises come together in this story that teaches us that your family is not always the one you were born into. Sometimes they are the people by your side who look after you, love you and accept you just as you are.