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Rut has to run away. From whom? Why? She knows that she doesn't have a choice but she doesn't know the reason. Even the people who want to help her like Professor Argimon and Marc the anchovy are surrounded by secrets... What do the people after Rut want from her? Where will she go? Why?
This work offers images of the least well-known spots of the Canary Islands - places inaccessible by land, concealed marine inlets and small unexplored caves - but also the famous beaches and coastal areas of the archipelago, now seen from a new angle.
This book is a jungle, an adventure, a lullaby, a caress, a wishing of sweet dreams to our wild animals. What can we do when there is no way to get our wild animals to sleep? This story-song by Paula Carbonell (illustrated by José Antonio Perona) will help you to make these nocturnal animals sleepy. Contains a QR code so you can listen to the lullaby!
Paula is almost seventeen, and has a date with Ángel, a young man of twenty two whom she has met while chatting online. She is nervous and excited. The minutes go by and the boy does not appear, so she decides to go into a nearby café. There she has an amusing encounter with a stranger called Alex, who by chance is reading the same book as her.
The 25 stories in "Cançons d'amor i de pluja are structured like a recital of emotions and reflections on the vulnerabilities and most absurd rituals of maturity With precise style and intensely charged, Pàmies reinterprets the cliches of archetypal romanticism and the obligations of sentimental hypochondria.
On her way home from school, Candela passes the house with the creeper. Afraid, she's always kept her distance from it, and speeds up her pace, but today a disturbing detail attracts her attention: the glass door of the balcony on the first floor is half-open. And if that isn't enough, she also thinks she hears a sigh. Is there someone in the house? An intriguing story full of enigmas.
Can you imagine being a flesh and blood person living in a paper world? The intrepid Candela returns with a new adventure full of folds and origami figures. What is origami, you ask? Well, it’s the same as paper folding but in Japanese.
We are all different. With this in mind, we are introduced to Cándido, an unusual person with a great need to express himself to the world around him, to be understood and accepted. It is rare for such a seemingly simple text to bring about such profound and necessary reflection on a society as complex as today's.
In 1539, four characters walk the roads of Spain during its era of glory and expansion, which they are however excluded from, as all four are fleeing from something: a woman escaping her past; a girl leaving her childhood behind; a black man marked by his albino condition; an eccentric young man in search of love.
The Cantar de mio Cid is an anonymous epic poem relating heroic deeds, freely inspired by the last years in the life of the Spanish knight Rodrigo Díaz el Campeador. It is the first long narrative of Spanish literature written in a romance language and is notable for the literary value of its style. It was composed – as is generally agreed by contemporary critics – around 1200.