La mujer del kimono blanco

El lector observará que los textos van más allá de una lectura infantil, pues no sólo muestran la versatilidad y el ingenio de uno de los más célebres polígrafos iberoamericanos, sino que contagian una apacible invitación a la literatura.

"When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his twentieth birthday. On his twenty-first birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can't remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up alongside the woman he loves. The next time he wakes, two years have passed and Jeremy is now a spectator of his own life. Victoria has given him a child, but the man alongside her is a cruel, egotistical, seemingly unknowable Jeremy. Is it amnesia? Insanity? Or has Jeremy been cursed for his selfish, destructive...

In a series of possible dialogues between historical personages that first began appearing in 1824, Anne Boleyn protests her innocence and defends her conduct to Henry VIII just before he orders her beheading; Godiva justifies her horseback jaunt to husband Leofric; and William Wallace of Braveheart fame addresses Edward I of England.

Una malvada bruja decide cortarle la cabeza a su hijastra para robarle un delantal. Obviamente, falla. Este prometedor comienzo da paso a un cuento al que no le falta de nada: botas de siete leguas, varita mágica, hechizos, amor, olvido y final feliz... Pocos títulos de los hermanos Grimm resumen mejor que El amadísimo Rolando la esencia del cuento popular. Por ello, Toño Benavides lo ha elegido para ilustrarlo en color, adaptando sus dibujos a la estética de hoy en día. La excelente traducción de Álvaro y Luis Alberto de Cuenca enriquece esta edición con la que disfrutarán los...