Mr. Guay

"A rhyming text weaves together numbers from one to ten in English and Spanish as two sisters gather presents for their mama's birthday from a Mexican market."--ALA "Booklist." Full color.

All the children at school are making their superheroes' albums, and at recess, they exchange their duplicate stamps. By doing some cheating, Santiago is the first in completing his collection and turns it in for a fabulous prize. That night, however, Santiago meets one those superheroes, Hatsune, who along with his fox, Atzaru, will teach Santiago a valuable lesson in honesty.

Snowmen are born on the top of a mountain one winter. At first they all look alike, but as they begin to change, rivalry, jealousy, and hate start to tear them apart. Power struggles ensue where they once was a peaceful, homogeneous community. Spring brings a respite, but what will happen when it gets cold again? Do we ever learn from the past?

En esta historia, Concha López Narváez a procurado reflejar de la forma más sencilla y verdadera, quién fue Cristóbal Colón, cuál era su proyecto y qué ocurrió antes y durante el primer viaje a las que él creía tierras de Asia. Colón se equivocó al pensar que las tierras de América eran las del lejano oriente. Luchador y constante, era un hombre que no se rendía fácilmente. Encontró nuevas rutas en el mar que llevaban a tierras desconocidas, y con tal encuentro cambió para siempre la historia del mundo.