My Yellow Umbrella / Mi Paraguas Amarillo

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.Well, some of her does.A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told ...

Las gemelas Ada y Valentina no pueden quedarse de brazos cruzados ante los destrozos que ha ocasionado el último temporal en la protectora de animales. Por eso, un día, se les ocurre la idea que montar un puesto de naranjada a la puerta de casa. Sin embargo, no será nada fácil conseguir lo que se han propuesto y necesitarán la ayuda de todos los vecinos? incluso la de aquel compañero del colegio que les cae tan mal.

Inanimate objects come to life. The table can walk with its legs, the computer mouse eats the cheese and the heart of an apple beats. Teaches simple vocabulary words by using the imagination and instills a curiosity about language

Every explorer needs a map! Baba encourages Yasmin to make one of her own. But when Yasmin loses sight of Mama at the farmer's market, can her map bring them back together? Fully translated Spanish text.