Carlos Y El Zorrillo

Funny things begin to happen when Carlos, a young boy who lives on a farm in New Mexico, refuses to take a bath. His right ear starts to itch and he knows something is growing in there.

In the spring of 1895, Bud is excited for his Cadet Corps team to compete in the end-of-the-year drills competition at his school. His company is the favorite to win, but can they pull it off? This historical fiction book is based on a story by the African-American poet and playwright, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Especially appealing to reluctant readers, this 32-page historical fiction book features hi-lo text, full-color illustrations and a short chapter format.

En El fascinante mundo de... los escarabajos descubrirás su variada alimentación: algunos comen cadáveres y otros excrementos. Te sorprenderá que puedan ser de colores tan vivos. Verás sus alas escondidas debajo de un estuche protector. Seguirás su asombrosa transformación de larva en ninfa y posteriormente, en adulto... y muchas más cosas sobre su fascinante mundo.

Stefan Zweig tuvo durante toda su vida la necesidad de intercambiar correspondencia, de establecer y mantener contactos. Mediaba la veintena cuando empezó a enviar sus primeros libros, junto con unas líneas de cortesía, a personalidades ya célebres por aquel entonces. Muchas de las respuestas dieron pie a una relación personal cuyos testimonios se han conservado. Con el presente volumen, los compiladores han querido transmitir una impresión lo más concreta posible tanto del peculiar talento de Stefan Zweig para dirigirse a sus corresponsales como de sus manifestaciones personales. Para ...

One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he's never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to meet, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the end of an era was prophetic.