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Taking care of the planet is important. This is a book to help kids learn about the importance of looking after our forests and keeping them clean. Gala and her granny have great fun exploring the forest. Together they discover a cave where a family of bears live, they talk to the rabbits and their babies, and find the wisest of all trees.
Trips to the woods are family outings that can complement what children learn in school, reinforcing a respect for the environment and providing them with resources to enrich their free time.
In his book, El ángel literario, a meeting held in Madrid with the writer Andrés Trapiello, serves as the backdrop for Eduardo Halfon to narrate the beginnings of the story of a mysterious Polish boxer.
He is a ten-year-old boy, curious, dreamy and highly imaginative. He would be like all other little boys, if his entire life wasn't spent shut up in an impenetrable cellar with his parents, his two siblings and his grandmother, all horribly disfigured by a mysterious fire no one speaks of.
Jaime is a little boy who, when he puts on his disguise as Brujo Pirujo (Wizard Pirujo) travels to a fantasy world. Brujo Pirujo also wants to take a siesta so he walks through the woods, looking for somewhere comfortable to have a rest. Will he find a place to sleep?
In Valencia in the seventies, at the height of Franco’s dictatorship, three young communists – Josep, Felo and Teresa – demonstrate their disagreement with the official Party line with unforeseen consequences.
1568 was one of the most terrible years in the rule of King Philip II of Spain. Conflict grew in Flanders, the Turkish threatened the Mediterranean, and Moors rebel in Granada. However, the King is set to face all the problems. With the help of his skilled secretaries he puts in place his best secret weapon: a network of spies never known before.
Pedro Miguel Lamet recreates with historical rigour and fascinating narrative style the life of the Peregrino de Loyola and, moreover, brings us close to the exciting Golden Age, allowing us to understand his turbulent youth, internal process, cultural climate and the young Ignacio's spirituality, who will leave his mark on the order of the Jesuits.
Towards the end of the 18th century, the young Creole girl Antonia de Salis meets a fascinating Venezuelan soldier in Russia, Francisco de Miranda, the father of Hispano-American independence.
Young Mario Lucas is fascinated by the world of the stars. He was absolutely certain that in one of those far off places, on the Pulsars, lived "The Little Green Men". These pacific, galactic beings, who observe everything from high above, would come down to Earth to sort out the mess the humans were in. It was just a matter of waiting.