El Patito Feo

A tiny girl the size of a thumb is stolen and must escape in turn from a calculating mother toad, a bumblebee, a rat, and finally a mole with marriage on his mind.

When a boy receives his first invitation to sleep over at a friend's house, he worries that he will miss his home and family too much, so he decides to take his teddy bear along for comfort. But when his sister tells him that his friend will think he is a baby, she creates even more of a dilemma for him. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many surprising and magical adventures.

Paula's favorite new word is no and she uses it for everything. Children will enjoy seeing the consequences of her not doing what her mother tells her to do.

Esta novela sucede en Molina, Chile, a fines del siglo XIX. Está protagonizada por don Pantaleón, un profesor que ha quedado viudo y sin hijos, y que ha perdido un poco la cordura; abandona su profesión y decide ser poeta, cambiando de actitud e incluso de vestimenta. En medio de este ambiente chileno y de campo, sucede de pronto un crimen y don Pantaleón decide trabajar arduamente en busca del culpable. Por otra parte, llega desde Talca Salustio Hernández, el comisionado encargado de resolver el misterio. Cada cual intenta encontrar la solución a su manera; el primero desde la...