Rimas cantarinas

Manuel y Matías, de diez años, se adueñan de un extraño caballo que ha sido rechazado por otros por su deformidad. Sin embargo, luego se transforma en un animal muy valorado y surge la ambición, la avaricia y la traición entre los habitantes de Paso al Monte.

Esta novela sucede en Molina, Chile, a fines del siglo XIX. Está protagonizada por don Pantaleón, un profesor que ha quedado viudo y sin hijos, y que ha perdido un poco la cordura; abandona su profesión y decide ser poeta, cambiando de actitud e incluso de vestimenta. En medio de este ambiente chileno y de campo, sucede de pronto un crimen y don Pantaleón decide trabajar arduamente en busca del culpable. Por otra parte, llega desde Talca Salustio Hernández, el comisionado encargado de resolver el misterio. Cada cual intenta encontrar la solución a su manera; el primero desde la...

Follows Mimi the monkey as she encounters such familiar animals as a baby chick and a groundhog, in a book that invites young readers to feel a puppy's ear, a kitten's belly, and a turtle's shell. On board pages.

Now available in Spanish! An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this “lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification” (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile. Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile—until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn’t quite know what is happening, but one thing is clear: no one is safe, not anymore. The country has been ...

Fairies Beck, Prilla, and Lily investigate the disappearance of Queen Clarion, the ruler of the Hondonada de las Hadas.

Simon Liar, the main character in this story, perceives and expresses reality as a fantastic game for a specific aim: speaking of wolves, foxes and cats that are in his imagination. But the fantasy xhas an ephemeral character and does not materialize in its perception ; for that, Simon, the same as the readers, will have to distinguish between reality and fantasy at the appropriate moment, what happens just at the end of the story.