Circo alegría

Aquí los relatos surgidos de vivencias personales, sueños e imaginación del autor, en donde puede apreciarse, más allá de lo anecdótico, una profunda crítica social, con planteamientos de distinta naturaleza: psicológicos, sociológicos y filosóficos. En estas historias crudas y frontales, se plantea la pérdida de nuestra capacidad de tener vidas completas, de no saber vivir sino por partes, con momentos desgarrados, con meros fragmentos de vida. Podrán no gustarnos, por no nos harán perder el tiempo y nos llevarán a una catarsis que puede cambiarnos para siempre.

Winner at the 2012 International Latino Book Awards. A superbly illustrated original story about the power of loving yourself and finding happiness. This is the story of Anastasia, a cockroach who dreamed of being accepted and becoming famous and important like her distant relatives the Egyptian beetles, sacred insects that everybody treated like royalty. Although it may seem impossible to believe, in another life Anastasia was a princess, transformed by a wave of the magic wand of Fairy Brunhilda, who was determined to sow good wherever she went. But being a princess is not an easy task......

Monster storms closed the school for three days. ¿Carpets bubbled with mud. Green slime swallowed books.¿ And when the children returned, the new bookshelves in the classroom were empty. ¿What will we do for story circle?¿ they ask. With the kids sitting around her on the new rug, the teacher tells a story about a boy who loved to fly. Afterwards, she asks them what pictures they imagined. Each one sees something different: wings like yellow sunbeams, a pond that looks like a green button and cloud horses running in the blue sky. Soon, all the children are excitedly raising their hands to ...

Rodeados de flores y risas, una niña y su abuelo construyen imborrables recuerdos. "El Jardín de mi abuelo" es un libro que nos invita a observar como se alojan en la memoria pequeñas vivencias que trascienden en el tiempo y como ellas forman parte de lo que somos y amamos.