El laberinto de Tristán

Three children embark on a day-long trek through the rainforest, discovering all sorts of exotic creatures in their natural habitats. The charming, rhyming text highlights an adjective for each creature. The story is complemented by educational endnotes about the creatures in the story, and the peoples of the rainforest. (Spanish language edition).

Seven different adventures accompanied by lovely and often humorous color drawings explore the workings of a farm and introduce the various animals that live there.

When Lars, the little polar bear, helps a lost puffin remove the sticky oil from his feathers by taking him to the healing waters of the hot spring, they discover a hot-air balloon that answers Lars's dream of flying in the sky like a bird.

The backdrop for the life and loves of a member of the small-town upper class is a village, population 13. With his feelings strangled by the snobbish standards set for him by his mother, all he can do is rebel on the inside. His only friend and drinking buddy is a retired sailor named Ismael. Ismael, no longer able to work and tired out by all the things he has done in his life, has returned to his home to die. But life, through the skills of an old witch, offers him one shady chance to become young again, which Ismael turns down. Hidden feelings in the heart of people who have felt how...