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One day, Francisco Javier Balmis, the well-known doctor appointed by Carlos IV to undertake an expedition to eradicate smallpox in South America, arrives at the orphanage run by Isabel Cendal. Balmis has with him a number of children to carry the vaccine and suggests that Isabel travel with him, in addition to a young surgeon, José Salvany.
A humorous novel which follows the pattern of classic detective fiction, adapting this to the Valencia of the 1980s. Two characters are involved in a dangerous adventure to try and get back a strange jewel.
The entertaining stories in this book demonstrate the colateral, generally unforeseen, effects of any decision taken, be it at a personnal level or in organisations and businesses. These are the 'saddlebags' that accompany decisions. The main characters in this narrative are very human animals or, from another perspective, perhaps it is an animal's view of humans.
Written by a specialist in child psychology, this book is aimed at boys and girls aged from 4 to 8 years old. Ani is an eco-friend with a mission: to make sure humans care for and respect animals and plants. Do you think he will succeed? Do you want to help him? Surely together you can make it happen! Humans are animals with the capacity to laugh, cry, imagine, feel and develop nostalgia.
It contains:
-12 colour reproductions of paintings by Franz Marc
-Fables by the following authors in Spanish:
Tomás de Iriarte
Félix María de Samaniego
Miguel Agustín Príncipe
Concepción Arenal
-Two books in one sturdy box.
-Teaches basic animal vocabulary in English and Spanish.
-For children 0-3 years.
-Free audio files and extra activities available on bilingualreaders.com.
-Rounded corners and washable pages.
-Each box in this collection helps children explore two different aspects of the same theme while discovering the world around them.
What if witches were the goodies? Meet Anna Kadabra and her magical Full Moon Club! Anna is furious because she has to leave her home, school and city. She's moving with her parents to Moonville, an old town in the middle of a forest. To make things worse, the place is full of legends and secrets. Who, for example, is the mysterious cat that follows her everywhere? Could it be a witch's cat?
Last Night I Walked on Water is a narrative in two dimensions in which myths, chasms, heavens and hells collide. In the realm in which the characters of this novel move, the mysticism of vice is almost the same as that of virtue and the two seek the same elevation.
... And a moment arrived when humanity had the opportunity to choose its own destiny and the schism took place. Technology and the leadership of the big corporations versus co-operation and harmony with nature, two irreconcilable visions of the world that could only reach one agreement, not to have any further contact whatsoever.
At some point in the second half of the twentieth century, Alfred Montsalvatjes, a young man with a deep cut to his hand, arrives at hospital in New York. He's a foreigner, he wants to be a writer and, in the eyes of Jean Rosenbloom, the nurse who tends to him, he is a fairytale prince.