Ulises, Segunda Parte

Based on a true story and written by someone who witnessed it, this touching picture book is set in Venezuela. A man named Faoro found an orphaned, newborn caiman and brought her home. The bond they formed was unbreakable and everlasting. Information about Faoro and the author is provided at the end.

All Maria wants for her birthday is a squishy pink rabbit. When her family cannot find one, her grandmother takes her pink yarn and knits her a...pink armadillo. Maria, totally disillusioned, decides to put up with Milo until she finally realizes how special and important to her he is.

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...

“Fábulas en verso originales” se publicó por primera vez en 1851 y fue de inmediato seleccionado texto oficial en las escuelas de primera enseñanza. En esta obra de sus primeros años de producción literaria, la autora utiliza personajes humanos, animales o simplemente le da voz a las sustancias y objetos inanimados para representar los valores morales de su ideología y su preocupación por la educación y los avances sociales. En la fábula titulada “El hierro y el topacio”, el hierro pregunta por qué teniendo él un mayor valor utilitario es más apreciado el topacio, a lo que ...