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Bemol Pispante loves music. This is why the little mouse lives in a piano. All the other mice think Bemol is mad because he is putting them all in danger. The owner of the house is a great pianist who is practising a beautiful but difficult piece of music. Includes a CD-ROM with additional multimedia content.
Benjamin is a young sperm whale who lives near an island and loves to jump, sing and recite poetry. Benjamin wants to be like the dolphins who are the only ones who normally do this. But however hard Benjamin tries, only his friend Minerva, who is actually very clever in spite of what the others say, listens to him and smiles at him.
Etropavlovsk, 1741. An expedition sponsored by the Tsars sets out for Northern Siberia to find a secure maritime route between Russia and America. Travelling on board one of the ships is Laurentz Waxell, a boy of only 12 years old, who will be marked forever by the horror he lives through in those cold and inhospitable regions
Could you give an unfaithful ex-boyfriend a second chance? And what if in doing so you lost the love of your life? Marga, a brilliant 30-year-old woman, watches her world teeter at the same time as she loses her job. What's more, Andrés, with whom she has shared more than a decade, leaves her for another woman.
Txabi Arnal: writer and university professor of Children’s and Young People’s Literature in the department of Language Teaching and Literature at the University of the Basque Country, and professor for many years of Children’s Education in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Julio Blasco: illustrator and graphic designer.
Laia is a young Sahrawi woman who has begun a new life in Spain: she is going to do a university degree, she plans to move in with her boyfriend, and her host family love and support her. But her happiness is marred by the terrible weight of her memories: no one knows the dark secret she left behind her among the tents of the Dakhla camp. And now the past has come back to claim her.
Fantasiburg is the secret city of all fantastic creatures: here dragons, unicorns, mummies, werewolves and mermaids all live peacefully together. And they get along fine when humans don't stick their noses in. That's the way it was for centuries, until a misunderstanding brings the Rodríguez Rodríguez family to the city. Tania is a fantasy stories friki.
It's always been clear that, to certain people, it matters a lot who you go hand in hand with down the street. Even now there are some that like to classify, sanction and make laws about feelings. Are they so dangerous? "Critters, Love and Stuff" is a book about love and about freedom. It is about equality and respect. Funny, daring, ironic and tender. No filters.
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution and mass production forced companies to look for mass markets for their products. These companies made use of a new tool (advertising) to bombard enormous audiences with generic messages through the loudspeaker of the media.
The twentieth century is well into its second half. Society has learned how important it is for the happiness of wider society and of each and all of its members to suppress 'deviant' attitudes. Of course, in order to do this, it is essential to detect them in good time.