Aullar, rugir, mugir y ladrar: Un libro sobre sonidos de animales (Howl, Growl, Mooo, Whooo, A Book of Animals Sounds)

Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....

Ganador del I Premio Los Odres de poesía, el cubano Alexis Díaz-Pimienta nos muestra un verdadero festín poético de lenguajes y metros. Reflexión sentimental sobre la identidad, las caretas, el fingimiento. Todo rostro es, en esencia, un disfraz que nos protege de los otros y de nosotros mismos.

Follows two children as their family adopts two guinea pigs, offering information on cages, health concerns, handling, behavior, and diet.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...