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Alice is all mixed up. How can it be that a feather and a stone fall at the same speed? How can a ball possibly roll to infinity without anyone pushing it on? Either her teacher has gone mad or science isn’t science but magic. During a strange weekend, Alicia meets Galileo, Archimedes, Newton, Einstein, Madame Curie… and discovers the surprising mysteries in everyday things.
Old rock stars don't have it easy. And if anyone disagrees, tell it to Iván Uturría. At 40, his life is a disaster. He's been fired from a job he hates, his girlfriend has thrown him out and to top it all off nobody knows how to pronounce his surname correctly. Iván moves in with the only friends he has left, waiting for a solution from on high.
Mum spent all day running around, all over town. And when night came, she was always so tired. Sometimes, she didn't answer us or seemed to have her head somewhere else. What could she do to run faster and be on time everywhere? A picture book dedicated to hero mums who run back and forth all day long.
The wicked sorcerer Deshielo has kidnapped the Three Kings and Father Christmas, so that all the children throughout the world will have no presents this Christmas. But Mother Christmas, with help from the Queens of the Orient, will not allow this to happen!
Mummy Wants To Fly is an illustrated children's book. The main character is a little boy who speaks in the first person: "My mummy does loads of things without me. My mummy lives in a balloon that she wants to fly up and away. Then I get worried because there are some balloons that disappear into the sky when they fly high. My mummy is the best mummy in the world but... she wants to fly".
My mum does lots of things without me. My mum lives inside a balloon that wants to fly very far and very high. Then I get a bit scared because some balloons that fly very high end up disappearing into the sky. My mum is the best mum in the world but...she wants to fly.
This book chronicles the Homeward Bound expedition to Antarctica, in which 100 women travelled to the South Pole to fight for a more sustainable planet and demand more female leadership in conversations about our relationship with our planet.
“A truly stunning work with a beautiful stillness to it, very few potential translation issues, and which deserves to be in as many languages as possible. “(Rosalind Harvey)
The goal of the frog who is the heroine of this story is to perform a good jump. Frog makes various attempts but each is more painful and frustrating than the last. In spite of this, Frog does not give up and keeps trying again and again until she succeeds. Tomorrow Is Another Day shows how life is full of challenges to overcome, and growing and developing is the biggest of them all.
Tomorrow All Day is an inspiring and extraordinary book from promising new illustrator Bea Enríquez. The star of the story is a daring, brave, reflexive, sometimes chaotic cat who always follows his dreams. His imagination goes with him wherever he travels and is always there when needed, creating limitless worlds where reality overcomes cat fiction. Why is this book so enchanting? 1.