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In this book, the youngest children will learn how to follow instructions in a fun way. On each page, the Three Baby Triplets explain and illustrate a situation, and the reader is also asked to interact with the book: to blow, to scratch an object in drawing, to clap… On the following page, the child will see the consequences of their actions.
This book was created as a guide for girls on their road to puberty and maturity. Using poetic language, in harmony with the illustrations, it offers a real, natural image of girls, moving away from the hyper-sexualized image promoted by our society and culture.
One weekend of torrential rain, four people come together in La Solana, a small Mediterranean village. Victor and Valeria’s marriage is in crisis, and their business trip looks as though it may really be the end of their relationship. Breogán and Brigitte are an artist and a tourist guide, washed up in this lost corner of the coast and meandering its narrow streets without ever meeting.
Claudia, the young protagonist of this story, narrates the extraordinary events that one summer ended up altering her family’s already chaotic life. It all begins with the arrival of Uncle Fede, a scientist who brings a mysterious substance that could change the entire course of humanity.
Socri, Konfi, Topo and Rey, the protagonists of Iranzo’s El perro pastor que perdió su rebaño [the sheepdog who lost his flock], must act according to the decisions they made after receiving the owl’s teachings. They must each follow their own path and transform their lives, turning the approaches they learned during their apprenticeship into habits.
“Democracy and the Constitution, which were born almost at the same time as we were, told us that everyone had the right to be whatever they wanted to be. All of society agreed and came together to preserve our hopes and dreams. We were going to be whatever we wanted to be.
On Monday They Will Love Us is the story of a young woman of 17 seeking the freedom to discover what will make her happy. But the conditions for that are complicated. She lives in an oppressive environment and to leave it would mean paying too high a price.
This story gives us a glimpse into the world of food from the viewpoint of a child who, as he grows, begins to discover the richness of flavours, smells, textures and colours of all that he eats. Thus eating becomes a game in which all the senses come into play: touch, smell, hearing, sight and taste.
The discovery of a corpse opens a police investigation that leads to an intriguing plot dealing with friendship, love and the role of art in the contemporary world, plus privilege, power and corruption. The questions soon begin to multiply, but they all lead one: Who is the enigmatic woman whose portrait hangs in the house of the murdered man?
Towards the end of the XV century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca, will investigate the murder of a theology professor. Thus begins a complex web in which the situation of the Jews and converts intertwine.