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This poem demonstrates Joana Raspall's ability to comprise in a few words a universal message that is easily understandable for the youngest readers. We are all human, our origins are partly due to coincidence, and our responsibilities are to help each other. The colour of our skin, our language, food, clothes and games might all be different, if we are born in a different place.
What better place to discover poetry than the garden? A place where time stands still, like a satisfied lizard, only to fly off as flighty as a ladybird. The bees, the frogs, the sparrows and the snails: all have their corners and their games, their poetry.
What is today known as the oeuvre of this Barroque conceptualist is only the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to a rigorous analysis of the texts attributed to Quevedo in the Evora manuscript, undertaken by the research doctor María Hernández, part of the moral, erotic, satirical and political poetry that has survived the centuries has been recovered.
The Arctic Ocean, 1960. Everything has changed on board the Eridanus, an old prospecting ship anchored off the island of Jan Mayen. In just a few days the crew's cabins have become prison cells and the pantry has been transformed into an interrogation room where Vatne and the mysterious Mr Dodt viciously carry out their work.
Travel journalism returns. In the 21st century the planet has been mapped, measured, photographed and explained down to the last detail. Is finding Terra Incognito, savouring something approaching a discovery an impossible task? Not for an exceptional reporter who follows in the wake of the great masters of literary journalism, from Robert B.
Toadcop is a young toad with only one burning desire: to become a police officer. Everyday he talks about his wish to everyone he finds on the road, and he’s so insistent that, after completing his secondary education, takes a long journey to Luque to fulfil his cherished dream.
What is life like for a polar fox, a polar bear or a penguin? You've been asking the question for years. Well, they eat, they look for food and they try not to be eaten. When you live in the South Pole you spend your time surviving. Especially if one of your best friends happens to be an enormous (and hungry) polar bear. Oh, you also have to spend time on girls, too.
'On a starry night, if I look at the sky I feel small, as though I were a grain of sand compared to a planet.' In this big world there are times when we can feel very small. The moon is small compared to the Earth; the Earth is small compared to the sun; likewise the sun, compared to other stars. But, really, what are we? Big or small?