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Presents general information about the everyday life of children in Europe, the far north, Japan, India, England, the Middle East, the United States, South America, China, and different parts of Africa.

Presents general information about Christmas, including the origins of the holiday and other fall and winter holidays and their traditions, provides instructions for seasonal craft projects, and describes celebrations in different lands.

Ático el zapatero es un excelente narrador de historias; tanto, que un buen día decide viajar hasta el monte Ida, donde cada año se reúnen los mejores narradores de Grecia para participar en un festival. Por el camino, Ático irá contanto relatos de dioses, héroes y monstruos a todos los que se lo pidan. Así, hasta llegar a cien historias que desvelarán al lector el fabuloso mundo de los mitos griegos, y permitirán a Ático hacerse con el premio al mejor narrador del festival.

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers—la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recrea su infancia, que transcurrió a caballo entre dos culturas durante la Guerra Fría. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island...

A charming picture book features a busy little bird flying back and forth, carrying twigs to the cherry tree.

"In search of "Don Quixote" from other side of the estimate that there are no gaps between the various fields of knowledge and literary productions that are specific manifestations of a global representation system historically determined. So, it seemed necessary to put Don Quixote in its various circumstances, linking it to the contexts under which it has set, especially regarding attitudes and references involved, not to mention the cultural particularities that arise in him, both scholarly and popular. Hence, the approaches used, of a historical, anthropological and literary, to go for the ...