La Caimana

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.

Tombo the tadpole declares himself King of the Pond. He brags that he’s the biggest, the fastest, and the strongest tadpole, and he teases and chases all the other tadpoles. But one day while showing off doing a triple flip, Tombo’s life takes a major turn. He’s captured by a boy and taken from his lush pond to a fish tank. There Tombo is fed dry fish flakes, a food he despises.When Tombo turns into a frog, the boy releases him back into his pond. Tombo discovers that he’s no longer the biggest and fastest. It’s then he discovers something much more important than being King of the...

A boy, a girl, and their dog spend a day having fun at the city park playing on the swings, a slide, the see-saw, and a jungle Jim set, as well as jump rope, ride a skate board, catch butterflies, dig in the sandbox, and quietly watch the goldfish swim.

[Plan Lector Infantil] Lorenzo se dispone a disfrutar de la semana de receso del colegio, sin imaginar que un objeto que luce tan inofensivo pueda llegar a causarle tantos problemas... Es rectangular, alargado, misterioso. Es una amenaza intergaláctica que ni siquiera un superhéroe puede detener. Es una tortura durante las vacaciones, es, aunque no lo crean, un libro. ¡y todavía no ha comenzado a leerlo!