Cuentan En La Patagonia / In Patagonia They Tell

Ten leading contemporary children's writers from Spain and Latin America--including Eliacer Cansino, Gloria Cecilia Díaz, Gonzalo Moure, and Ana María Shua--have created short stories based on the UNICEF's Charter of Children's Rights. Each one lends itself perfectly for classroom discussion. The complete text of the charter is included at the end of the book.978846960124\\The lone tree on Peace Street is rather grouchy. He especially does not like it when kids climb him. When autumn comes, his mood sours even more. He becomes so dried out, the town decides he must be cut down. The children ...

Explores the options available to a monster from the time it is born, such as becoming the scary monster under someone's bed or playing on the school basketball team.

A remarkable tale of books and reading, now in a bilingual Spanish-English edition. On most days, teacher and librarian Luis Soriano Bohorquez packs his two burros, Alfa and Beto, with books and makes his way over mountains and through valleys to visit children in far-flung villages in rural Colombia all for the sake of literacy and culture. Based on the work of a remarkable man and his intrepid burros, this bilingual English and Spanish edition celebrates the impact that a special mobile library called the biblioburro has had on the lives of real children. About the author: Monica Brown s...

¡Benvenid@ al fantasy más exótico que leerás jamás! Ekon Okojo es estudioso y prudente y aspira a continuar con el legado de su familia como Hijo de los Seis, una de las castas guerreras de Lkossa. Koffi, en cambio, es apasionada e impulsiva, y sueña con la libertad mientras trabaja como guardiana en el Zoo Nocturno. Sus caminos no se hubieran cruzado de no ser porque, una noche, sus destinos se confabulan para cambiar todos sus planes. Juntos, deberán adentrarse en la Selva Mayor para atrapar el Shetani, un monstruo tan poderoso como temible. A medida que las dificultades crecen y la...