Cipariso (Cyparissus)

A careful selection of the best horror stories from one of the masters of the genre: Horacio Quiroga. Readers ages 9-12 will be delighted by each story that combines real with fantasy resulting in stories with great structures and surprising endings.

Platero the donkey, a very popular figure in the town of Moguer, Spain, is treated as a beloved a child by his master, the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez.

When asked to deliver contraband papers to her native island home of Cuba in 1852, twenty-year-old Emilia Casanova gulped audibly in a most unladylike manner. This was her chance to be in the thick of the rebellion against Spanish authority, something she had always dreamed of, instead of on the sidelines more befitting someone of her station. Even though she would be branded a traitor and endanger her family if she was caught, she pushed her fear aside and accepted the mission. Back in Cuba following her first summer abroad, distributing seditious propaganda isn't as easy as it had seemed...

Las plantas, para reproducirse, requieren que el polen llegue al pistilo, su parte femenina. A veces necesitan ayuda para conseguirlo. Insectos, aves, viento o agua se encargan de hacerlo. También hay semillas viajeras. Este libro brinda a los pequeños un sencillo y colorido acercamiento al tema. Este libro habla sobre la reproducción vegetal. Las plantas, para multiplicarse, requieren que el polen llegue al pistilo. La mayoría de las flores tienen las partes femenina y masculina juntas; pero cuando están separadas, necesitan ayuda para que la polinización pueda suceder. Insectos, aves, ...