El pianista inesperado

An imaginative boy opens a box of animal crackers and gives his family members a hippopotamus, anaconda, rhinoceros, and other exotic animals. Full color.

Computers, cell phones, I Pads -- isn’t that what living in this world today is all about? We stay connected to a world that changes every day, and almost every minute. What if we did not have those ways of communications, and had to use books instead? That is what came to mind as I thought of a scenario of a young girl having a dream in which all those ways of technology did not exist, and realizing what it would be like without her “Books on the Shelf.”

As her grandmother's health declines, a young girl begins to lovingly take the lead in their cozy shared autumn traditions. Poetic prose paired with evocative illustrations by Mexican illustrator Claudia Navarro make for a beautiful celebration of life and a gentle introduction to the death of a loved one.

La relación de los padres de Felipe se deteriora cada día más y la inminencia de un viaje a Bolivia con su tío Pablo, historiador y arqueólogo, le abre una nueva posibilidad para fortalecerse psíquicamente. Aunque seres extraños le han advertido que visitará Atlántida, es interceptado cerca de la ciudad sagrada de Tiahuanaco y conducido por calabozos y cárceles secretas donde se llevan a cabo experimentos con seres humanos vivos.