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Why is it that one thing about a person sometimes makes us like them and sometimes annoys us? Lolo and Rita are very different from one another. Accepting diversity isn't always easy. But who said it would be? A book for children and adults that encourages understanding of what makes us different, showing the magical effect of polar opposites... A delightful love story for all ages.
Adrián Díaz appears to be living the dream. He is about to play Hamlet on stage and is going to give up his job in the hospitality industry to dedicate himself full-time to his true vocation, acting. What almost nobody knows is that Adrián is "touched" or, in other words, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
This is the most beautiful story in the world. A picture book that, with tenderness and humour, describes the worries, feelings and emotions of a child when a new baby comes into the home. To help boys and girls discover that having a little brother or sister can be fun. You and I, a story to help young children understand the birth of a brother or sister.
AS we grow up we often repeat, as a kind of consolation, I suppose, that saying that we all have a child inside us. A child that was eaten up by this big and bitter body that the mirror now shows us each time we cautiously consult it: "mirror, mirror, on the wall...". But we are well aware that it's much better to be that child on the outside than to carry it within us; that is, to be the child.
Guille is an apparently happy child, always smiling, but you only have to scratch beneath the surface to feel that there's a mystery somewhere. Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile, and he's a great reader with a lot of imagination. He only has one friend, a girl. So far, so good.
The work follows the life story of a woman as fascinating as she was unknown: the Spanish singer Lina Codina, muse and wife of the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The first years of their marriage were spent in the Paris of the avant-gardes, where the couple moved in the most exclusive intellectual and artistic circles.
A book of activities and games for young children: draw treasure maps, cook for the pirate crew, design hooks and pirate hats, decorate and sew sails and flags… In the hands of and funny, original pirate crew, we learn everything about their world, in addition to giving free rein to our imaginations in painting, drawing and animating our own pirate worlds.
A peaceful, happy life can be suddenly cut short by the realisation of the existence of a great emptiness, a hole in the chest that immediately projects us into a way of life we don't know how to deal with. This is what happens to the protagonist of this story, a happy girl who, after suffering an unexpected loss, discovers the great hole inside her.
A branch manager of a bank from the east of Spain who has sold preferred stocks. A young soldier, Fermín Galán, who decides to put his republican ideals into practice and bring about a revolution in Jaca, in 1930. A fanatical priest in the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia during the Second World War.
If you don't eat green vegetables, after reading this book, you'll love them. They are incredible: colourful, poisonous and, most especially, they can walk and laugh.