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The lives of the two brothers at the centre of "Your Shadow" unfold in parallel, like two rivers, like two cars travelling in opposite directions. Pere is 25 years old when he spends the summer of 2010 at home with his parents in Barcelona.
Pablo R. Burón transports his first novel to a future Spain dedicated solely to tourism. "Welcome to Turistia, the future now", and takes us on a tour through a fictitious country where we all work together to make our own tourist city the most-visited place in the world. In this destination you will be the star.
Alina decided to plant a tree. A branch grew from the tree. A pair of birds flying nearby decided the tree would make a good site for their nest. Then there were: one branch, two birds and an egg. Another branch grew out from the tree... and a family of rabbits who were passing by decided that it would be a good place to dig their warren.
This is a story about the importance of friendship, vanity and the value of not judging people you don't know. A strange parcel appears in the woods and all the animals think it's for them. What nobody expects is that the mysterious package is for Musaraña, and what it contains will leave them all speechless.
Gabriel and Toni meet aged nine at a campsite where their families spend the summer holidays. From that moment on the two boys are inseparable, especially when they both start attending the same school. However, their friendship becomes strained. Is violence justified if used to impose justice? Gabriel believes it is, despite what his friend Toni says, and is prepared to prove it.
The protagonist of this story is born out of a legend. In the times of Philip V, the gardeners of the Retiro spoke of an elf who swapped the flowers they planted for others. In this story the elf has woken up angry and will have to make a trip to get her good mood back. She achieves this thanks to the influence of art which, in its diversity, assimilates and embellishes everything.
The residents of the village at the top of the mountain love living there. They get sunshine and fresh air every day, and they also enjoy spectacular views. There's no doubt about it: their village is the best. Their neighbours in the village down below are proud of the river that runs past their houses and of the fields it allows them to farm. Their village is the best, they proudly declare.
The story of a girl who to her father has always been a pink princess. But she never liked pink, and even though the older she got the more she protested, and her grandmother also tried to explain, he could never understand. So one day she had an idea. She bought him some glasses. Special ones, that can see everything.
In West End, José Morella reconstructs the story of his grandfather Nicomedes, who suffered from mental illness during a time when any treatment was obstructed by the denial typical of the Franco era. Nicomedes' story was a taboo subject, always silenced at family gatherings.
Aviators, explorers, archaeologists, drivers, globe trotters, zoologists, naturalists, journalists, pilots, cosmonauts, mountaineers... this picture book contains the stories of almost twenty women from around the world who earned their place in the history books by daring to dream impossible dreams... and make them come true!