Las Descabelladas Aventuras de Julito Cabello

Some things are close -- cerca. Others are far -- lejos. With sweet simplicity, this charming dual-language board book and its companion volume, Lejos/Far, engage young children. Mi cuarto está cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen. As she walks from her kitchen through a daisy-filled yard to the house next door, a little girl notices things that are close to each other -- just as the little boy she goes to visit is close to her.

Mamá explica a Catalina cómo el prognóstico del tiempo le indica que Catalina debe llevar su paraguas con ella.

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

Un precioso �lbum infantil de Jos� Saramago con las magn�ficas xilograf�as de Jos� Francisco Borges. El Lagarto es una historia corta incluida en El equipaje del viajero (1973), un volumen que reuni� las cr�nicas escritas por Jos� Saramago para el diario A Capital y el semanario Jornal do Fund�o entre 1971 y 1972. La historia narra la aparici�n en Chiado de un misterioso lagarto, cuya presencia sorprende a los transe�ntes y moviliza a los bomberos, el ej�rcito y la aviaci�n. Con un estilo claro y preciso, la f�bula ofrece una pluralidad de direcciones capaz de...