El Mio Cid y otras leyendas de España

Lola Torbellino es una niña de ocho años que vive en un barrio de Madrid con sus padres, su abuelo, su hermano Felipín, de cinco años, y su perra Petra. Aunque ella pone todo su empeño en hacer las cosas bien, al final, sin saber cómo, todo se acaba torciendo. ¡Y es que los adultos son muy injustos! Por las páginas de este libro veremos desfilar personajes desternillantes (su amiga Malú, el abuelo Toño, el portero y ex seminarista don Sancho, la tía Pelosfritos y su chófer rumano, la peluquera Britnispirs, el bondadoso cura don Emiliano...) y las travesuras más divertidas: en el...

"Todas las tardes, la abuelita Clara se reúne con sus amigas a bordar o tejer, mientras hablan en voz muy alta, todas a la vez, y cmoen unas galletas deliciosas que ella hace"--Page 4 of cover.

This collection was designed and developed by Graciela Repun and Florence Esses to accompany children in the early learning stages, with emphasis not only on the basics of shapes, sizes, numbers, opposites, positions and colors, but also in rhyme, poetry, and the visual richness of the illustrations.

When asked to deliver contraband papers to her native island home of Cuba in 1852, twenty-year-old Emilia Casanova gulped audibly in a most unladylike manner. This was her chance to be in the thick of the rebellion against Spanish authority, something she had always dreamed of, instead of on the sidelines more befitting someone of her station. Even though she would be branded a traitor and endanger her family if she was caught, she pushed her fear aside and accepted the mission. Back in Cuba following her first summer abroad, distributing seditious propaganda isn't as easy as it had seemed...