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Sometime Mum has thunder in her head: she talks loudly and through clenched teeth. Sometimes she has clouds in her head: she forgets to make lunch and takes us to birthday parties late. And at other times she has a rainbow in her head: she sings at night and kisses me a lot. Could I also have thunder, clouds and rainbows in my head?
The book the reader has in their hands is a treat for those of good literary taste and unveils a young author who has opened up his horizon to a solid career in the world of words. In brief, both the author and, with him, the reader is moved when two of his wonderful main characters, Teodoro and Domingo finally speak, breaking the silence of the past seventy years.
Thanks to this spectacular illustrated book with animals as its main characters, children will be able to find out about the alphabet and also all the emotions, from A to Z, from H for happiness to S for shyness, passing through fear and embarrassment. In this way, they will learn not only to recognise them emotions, but also to understand and deal positively with them.
This spectacular ABC of jobs begins with A for architect and runs to Z for zapatero (shoemaker in Spanish) passing through C for Chef, D for Doctor and E for engineer (or I for Ingeniera in Spanish!). Each job is explained in a fun poem and accompanied by an illustration that shows off that job with tenderness, rigour and humour: "So happy, happy, that's what I wanna do!
Structured as an interview, Adela explains in this book how she approaches terminally ill patients, tells the story of the death of her husband, the moment that she discovered the philosophy of doctor Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and how this gave her the strength to found the AVES association (Association of Volunteers for Recovering Patients).
Marcela and Oscar live a typical middle class life in the centre of São Paulo: they have just had their flat re-floored, they go to residents' meetings and they spend their evenings in front of the television. But this anodyne existence is disrupted when Nelson arrives at the building.
In the picturesque town of Horston, the death of the mayor's new wife upsets the daily calm and reveals its inhabitants' old secrets, mixed with the eternal passions of love, revenge and ambition. In 1866, an idyllic town in the south of England will find its tranquility disturbed by the murder of the mayor's wife.