Contando ovejas y desvelos

Kids love to be asked questions almost as much as they love to ask them. And asking is important--parents know the value of having meaningful conversations with their kids. In this book you will find the funny answers that Gianni Rodari found when he asked children questions about animals.

From the contents: Bandidos y bandoleros en la literatura de cordel (Joaquin Marco).- Magos y santos en la literatura popular (Supersticion y devocion en el Siglo de las Luces) (Maria Cruz Garcia de Enterria).- Teatro y espectaculo a costa de santos y magos (Joaquin Alvarez Barrientos).- El majismo y las artes plasticas (Virginia Tovar Martin). through genealogy and psychoanalysis.

A little boy named Dula wants to be the fastest runner. He works skinning fish and, each morning, along with the other child laborers, he tries to win and get to his job first. Sometimes he does it, but not always, depending on whether he had anything to eat the night before. This book provides an excellent way to discuss poverty and its consequences in other countries.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...