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Atascado is a fun book about a child's determination to fend for himself.
It's bath time and the little protagonist decides to strip naked, but his head is stuck in his own shirt. Overcome the first moment of fear, the child imagines the challenges he will have to overcome: How can he play with the other children? What will you do if your cat tickles your belly? Thankfully your mother comes to the rescue. But when he finally gets his shirt off, another danger assails him ... it's time to put on his pajamas!
Shinsuke Yoshitake portrays a simple scene of the life of the infantile world transforming it into ingenious and hilarious.
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28 songs, lullabies, couplets and finger plays from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in a varied and charming repertoire, full of fascinating sounds, which brings together both classical and traditional music and some brilliant Bollywood hits.
Each and every one of the lyrics of the songs are reproduced in their original alphabet, also transcribed in Latin characters and then translated into Spanish. At the end of the book, a commentary section explains the origin, the cultural context and the instrumentation of each theme.
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Will the butterflies remember that, when they were small, they were caterpillars? This is the question of a friend of Kemushi the caterpillar, after observing how she endures with optimism the harsh winter, grows, changes and, when spring arrives, she leaves her little house in the garden of cherry and plum trees ...
Parents and teachers will enjoy this book intensely with the children. They will also be able to take the opportunity to talk with the children about the cycle of life, the wait, the time and the changes that they themselves will be suffering and accepting with joy.
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Her name was Meitang and she was for him an anchor in a raging world. They met very young, love flourished slowly and they were destined to form a normal couple, like so many others. However, the turbulent XX century reserved them a road full of obstacles. First, defending their country against the Japanese invasion; then, after the wedding, fighting against the insurgent communists led by Mao Zedong; and later, after the defeat and the entrance in a field of reeducation, to live separated during more than twenty years, until the change of regime opened the door to the desired reunion.
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Located in Southeast Asia, between sea and mountains, Vietnam is a land of great climatic contrasts where several people coexist. Despite the conflicts, the millennial influence of neighboring China and the US occupation, Vietnam has managed to preserve and transmit its ancestral culture and traditions through numerous stories and legends. Considered, according to the cases, precepts of life or remedies against the evils of existence, these myths evoke the origins of a world in which men, animals and spirits cohabit and dialogue. The Viet people, who live in the plains under the protection of their father the Dragon, and the mountaineers, who stayed with their mother the Fairy, learn with them why the croaking of the toad announces the rain, why the fur of the tiger has black stripes, or how to cure all evils with banyan leaves, the magic tree ...
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Azadah, a little Afghan girl, is lucky enough to meet a German photographer. At the moment when her friend has to go back home, the girl asks her to take her with her, because she wants to discover the world, the arts, literature... All those things that the photographer has talked about. Azadah feels that if he stays in her country, her future is concocted in advance...
This album of little text, just enough to put us in situation, is revealed through the magnificent illustrations that invite the reader to discover not only the sincerity of the relationship between the two friends but the many possibilities offered by the world, so many times silenced by guns or by meaningless laws and policies.
This is the particular tribute that Jacques Goldstyn wanted to make to the photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, murdered in 2014 in Afghanistan. Although in this book, the thirst of knowledge and freedom that Azadah feels stands out more than the figure of the photographer. The author is a master in the art of recreating hard and captivating realities immersing himself in the heart of his characters that give his stories a vibrant and hopeful air.
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There were once a couple of peasants without children who hopefully sang: "We want a child, even a small one, little one ..." His wish was fulfilled and Issun Bôshi was born, "he who is not taller than a thumb". The little one decides to go to the city, where he lives happy moments. A giant pursues him, but he is much more astute. Based on a Japanese folktale.
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In this traditional Mongolian tale, young Gonan pursues the fearsome monster Mongas to the steppe to avenge the destruction of his village. There, they decide to fight in a duel consisting of three tests.
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