Monstriña

New in Spanish, a sweet and hilarious story for the youngster whose heart is set on a new pet. A dragon might not be the most conventional pet, but this boy is determined. He argues his case to Mom and Dad with wit and charm, detailing the many benefits of dragon ownership: A dragon is the perfect bully deterrent! The perfect answer to snow-shoveling in the winter! The perfect trick-or-treating accessory! The perfect portable summer campfire! He swears he'll take really good care of it, too. He'll feed it, walk it, bathe it, take it to the doctor, and even teach it to fly. This laugh-out-loud ...

"El viento y Daniel", de Carlos Luis Sáenz, es un libro de poesía infantil, lleno del fino gusto estético y de la imaginación creadora de este poeta tan sugestivo para los niños. El libro es rico en lirismo plástico e imaginativo, a la vez de gran sencillez y sabor autóctono por el lenguaje, por los dichos y rimas de sabor popular y tradicional que usa y que le dan múltiple gracia y movilidad al verso y vuelo a la imaginación. Es un libro que invita e incentiva a los niños a desarrollar su propia creatividad. Está lleno de humanidad y ternura.

“Margarita siempre se había sentido atraída por el mar, por lo profundo de sus abismos, por su inmensidad...”. Nos encontramos aquí con una serie de relatos breves que Esperanza García Mancheño ha tenido la gentileza de componer para nosotros deleitándonos con pequeñas historias entrañables del ayer y del presente más actual.

A Special Prince Is Born Something exciting was happening in the big wildlife animal preserve. You could hear it first in the tumbling of the brooks and the waterfalls, and then in the rustling of tiny feet scurrying here and there throughout the forests and across the meadows. You could also see it in the bright green and yellow colors appearing across the valleys and on the lofty meadows, and then in the soft gold light that was replacing some of the shadows in the vast forests on the mountainsides. Even on most of the mountaintops, against the smooth, brilliant white of the snow, gold,...