Sombras chinescas y máscaras

En La noche de los jacintos blancos, edición definitiva, revisada y corregida por su autora, tres mujeres de la misma familia y diferentes generaciones nos hacen viajar en el tiempo y nos atrapan con sus historias y secretos. Deudora del realismo mágico, esta novela seduce al lector desde las primeras líneas y lo conduce de la mano a lo largo de toda la narración. Con una prosa poética y musical, maravillosamente construida, la autora mezcla lo mágico, lo fantástico y lo onírico; además, toma de la sabiduría popular referentes literarios de tradición oral que recupera para...

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Introduce readers to the various ways they can participate in volunteerism with this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers will discover many different charities and programs, including The Salvation Army, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, and Doctors Without Borders through vivid images, charts, and informational text. This nonfiction title aids in encouraging children to make a difference in their own communities by writing to newspapers or politicians or by participating in fund-raising and various programs or charities.

A young boy eagerly awaits the birth of his brother or sister, while imagining that the baby is in a house inside his mother.