Cuentos a Beatriz

Three children embark on a day-long trek through the rainforest, discovering all sorts of exotic creatures in their natural habitats. The charming, rhyming text highlights an adjective for each creature. The story is complemented by educational endnotes about the creatures in the story, and the peoples of the rainforest. (Spanish language edition).

Some things are close -- cerca. Others are far -- lejos. With sweet simplicity, this charming dual-language board book and its companion volume, Lejos/Far, engage young children. Mi cuarto está cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen. As she walks from her kitchen through a daisy-filled yard to the house next door, a little girl notices things that are close to each other -- just as the little boy she goes to visit is close to her.

A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play.

Las Antillas, gracias a las aportaciones de las decenas de pueblos que pasaron por ellas, es una de las zonas del mundo que poseen un caudal mucho más preciado que el oro tan perseguido por conquistadores, colonizadores y piratas: el de la riqueza de sus innumerables mitos y leyendas. En definitiva, el caudal de esa mezcla de realidad y ficción que hacen al Nuevo Mundo hijo y fruto de lo real y de lo maravilloso.