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En los Cuentos de la selva, Quiroga nos muestra su solidaridad con los animales, que observan como el hombre invade su hábitat y pone en peligro su supervivencia. A veces, sin embargo, los animales y los seres humanos conviven en armonía y la pluma del escritor se deleita en narrarnos con humor y ternura las historias que protagonizan.

A Wilf le siguen dando miedo muchas cosas. Todavía le dan miedo los ascensores, la mantequilla de cacahuete, los jerséis de cuello de cisne o los vikingos. Y estas son algunas de sus últimas preocupaciones: 1. El más malo, malimalumalísimo más malo de todo el malimundo sigue viviendo en la puerta de al lado y se llama Alan. 2. Alan es ahora un pirata. Y tiene un montón de planes diabólicos de pirata. 3. Wilf sigue siendo el único que puede pararle.

It's almost Valentine's Day, and Carlos and Carmen don't have any cards for their class! So they spend the day making valentines. They make big valentines and little valentines. They make valentines with glitter and valentines with stickers. Mamá and Papá think the twins may have made too many valentines. But, the twins have the perfect plan to make sure everybody has a happy Valentine's Day. Calico Kid is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...