Unas vacaciones intensas

Los carnavales eran fiestas de color y alegría que don Sapo disfrutaba mucho. Pero uno de esos carnavales fue especial porque el pícaro sapo fue quien resultó burlado.

"Isadora Moon es especial porque es diferente. Su mamá un hada, su papá un vampiro y ella tiene un poquito de los dos. Por eso su fiesta de cumpleaños no es como las fiestas normales y corrientes...¡Hadas, vampiros y niños humanos, están todos invitados!"--Amazon.com.

Feeling confined in her quiet shore village and wishing she could be at sea, Cristiana is drawn to an old boat called the "Cristóbal Colón," and uses it as her audience as she retells the story of Columbus and his voyages, mixed with her own life and memories.

In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the Man in the Silver Mask is pitted against the terrible forces of evil—los rudos, the bad guys of lucha libre. They make the audience boo and hiss! In the end, though, the Man in the Silver Mask triumphs and, in the process, gains a lifelong fan.