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Childhood has not been easy for Pedrito Ochoa. He has grown up in a hospice run by extremely strict nuns, without contact with the outside world and the great transformation Spain underwent in the 1970s. His destiny will change when he is unexpectedly adopted by his grandparents and he begins to study alongside the children of the most important families during the end of Francoism.
The unforeseen incidents that befall a little boy trying to create an album of farts, trumps and rippers. As nobody in his family wants to explain what a 'fart' is, he decides to find out for himself and classify them. A story that aims to break taboos and please both children and adults.
An entertaining reflection on art whose main character is one of the most important geniuses of the 20th century. France, 1953. Seventy-two-year-old Picasso, now living on the Costa Azul, has long been the most famous 20th century artist, a restless genius who creates almost compulsively.
When Marta dies in Toulouse in 2004 and her will is read, her granddaughter Marthe hears with astonishment that Marta had a son during the Spanish Civil War who was given up for adoption and that she has to track him down. Marthe hires the detective Ricardo Cupido who finds him in Toledo: he is called a Alejandro, is extremely rich and is, in turn, father to an illegitimate daughter.
Marta is a normal thirteen-year-old girl. She lives in Betulia, a tiny country where nothing exciting ever happens. She's interested in all the usual things for her age (the music group Euphoria, going out with her friends) and she thinks politics is deadly boring until, to get her own back on her arch-rival at school, she stands as a delegate.
Puncho has just moved to a new house in the country and, like any amateur lover of plants, he decided to cultivate his own kitchen garden. But something strange happens to the seeds. Why, despite all his care, don't they sprout?
There's been a great upset in the barn tonight. While everyone was asleep, someone has come in and, it is alleged, stolen the cow's spots! A new case for Roger the Mouse, the most daring detective whom nobody has yet outwitted.
A starkly real Madrid where the unexpected, and even the magical, can suddenly just happen. This is the space inhabited by the characters of this novel about Nikki and Sánchez, a couple of losers in search of an opportunity. Once they shared a life, but then their paths diverged.
Dreams is a simple, sweet and delicate book about those first longings children have, at an early age: to sail blue seas, to run free in green mountains, to dance for no other reason than to follow the rhythm of life that pulsates in them.