Crónicas de Umbroso

People lived in the dark until a young woman found the keeper of the light, and was able to bring light back to her family, in a legend from the Warao of the Orinoco delta.

You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”… You thought wrong. In this Spanish translation of the hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.” “In this humorous story, Alexander T. Wolf tells his own outlandish version of what really happens during his encounter with the three pigs…. Smith's simplistic and wacky illustrations add to the effectiveness of this fractured fairy tale.”—Children’s Literature Here,...

(a partir del cuento original El patito feo) Feo no, bello: porque directamente, mamá pata, que paseaba cerca del río, vio un huevo grande y dijo “Esto no es mío. ¿Lo debería adoptar?” Pero lo pensó mejor, pues ya tenía diez preciosos patitos. Uno de ellos muy muy guapo...

Mike Wilson nos conduce con mano maestra por parajes desolados, entre la droga y los terrores nocturnos, crea personajes memorables como Frosty y nos sugiere que acaso no haya nada peor que seguir viviendo después del fin.