Winter Rules

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

No 109: LA CIUDADANIA IMAGINADA... Analiza como se defienden en la novela popular española, los valores y modos de comportamiento más deseables, como la tolerancia, el trabajo, el ahorro o los placeres de una vida tranquila vida doméstica, y cómo, en este aspecto, entre los autores de folletines y los grandes novelistas del periodo se establecen notables coincidencias.

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.

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?