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Shaped like a square -- with arms and legs that rattle -- "Senor Cuadrado" certainly lives up to his name. This delightful soft book in the "Shape Family" series tells the story of Senor Cuadrado's birthday celebration with friends and family, while it introduces little ones to everyday objects with a square shape: a toy box, books, a telephone, a jack-in-a-box, blocks, and a house.

Una novela histórica para entender las causas y las consecuencias de la Revolución francesa. María Antonieta, princesa de Austria, llega al palacio de Versalles con tan solo catorce años para casarse con el futuro rey de Francia. Esta unión servirá para que Francia y Austria neutralicen el ascenso de la vecina Prusia y la expansión de Inglaterra. Mientras tanto, Batián y Lucile, de clase social baja, luchan cada día para sobrevivir con escasos recursos en el París del siglo XVIII de grandes desigualdades sociales. La Revolución francesa se está fraguando y el Antiguo Régimen...

Experts agree that the first sentence of a book is fundamental. It provokes intrigue and curiosity, promises mysteries to be solved and hours of entertainment. If it works, it hooks us. In this book, the author writes 22 stories that start with the first sentences of famous novels, such as Rayuela, David Copperfield, El perfume, and La silla de plata, among others. Additionally, it reveals to the reader that words are not enough by themselves, but that, on occasion, they inspire more words.

Take an ordinary, everyday kind of errand, add one little girl with a big imagination and the result is not just a trip to the store but a whole world of possibilities. Shau-yu is simply on her way to buy eggs for dinner's fried rice, yet she takes the reader on a journey filled with adventure and imaginings. Taiwan's traditional stores may be foreign to American readers, but Shau-yu's afternoon walk shows us all that imagination is universal.