Chatarra imperial

The chamarilero is a young muchacho who sells chácharas, smokes like a chacuaco, treats his friends to chupirules and never fails to amuse everybody with his chango. With the help of the merry chamarilero and 95 other words containing the digraph ch, this fun book will help young readers unleash their imagination and learn some fun new words in the process.

Este relato tradicional de Alemania, ambientado en la época medieval, relata cómo un flautista llega al pueblo de Hamelin, que había sido invadido por una legión de ratas. Los habitantes contratan al flautista y éste hace que las ratas abandonen el pueblo, hechizándolas con la melodía de su flauta. Sin embargo, cuando los ciudadanos de Hamelin se niegan a pagarle la suma que habían acordado, el flautista encanta a los niños de la ciudad con sus melodías y hace que los sigan fuera de la ciudad, adonde jamás regresarán. Se dice que este acontecimiento ocurrió en 1284. Esta...

A remarkable tale of books and reading, now in a bilingual Spanish-English edition. On most days, teacher and librarian Luis Soriano Bohorquez packs his two burros, Alfa and Beto, with books and makes his way over mountains and through valleys to visit children in far-flung villages in rural Colombia all for the sake of literacy and culture. Based on the work of a remarkable man and his intrepid burros, this bilingual English and Spanish edition celebrates the impact that a special mobile library called the biblioburro has had on the lives of real children. About the author: Monica Brown s...

Winner at the 2012 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. A subtle, deceptively simple book about the relationship between a kid and his Grandfather, suffering from Alzeimer’s. Love and understanding are often the best tools for dealing with this problem. And who better to help than a mischievous grandson? Grandpa Monty is a bit confused: he tries to roast the chicken inside the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins, gloves mixed up with socks, and he’s always forgetting my name! My mom and uncle Andrew are worried things could get worse, so they decided it was best if Grandpa ...