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The school bake sale is coming up, and Finley’s quest to invent the perfect new cupcake is a disaster! According to his little sister, Fiona, the cupcakes taste like moldy vegetables. When the inventor Thomas Edison visits the family’s Sweets Shop, Finley and Fiona embark on a sweet adventure through history. Will Finley discover the all important ingredients to create his own culinary invention? Or will he be forced to give up his Cupcake King title? Fiona and Finely are brother and sister who spend their time helping in their parent’s sweet shop, baking, going to school, oh yeah, and...

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.

Award-winning Lulu and the Hunger Monster is also available as a bilingual book in Spanish and English. When Lulu’s mother’s van breaks down, money for food becomes tight and the Hunger Monster comes into their lives. Only visible to Lulu, Hunger Monster is a troublemaker who makes it hard for her to concentrate in school. How will Lulu help her mom and defeat the Monster when Lulu has promised never to speak the monster’s name to anyone? This realistic—and hopeful—book in Spanish and English builds awareness of the issue of childhood hunger, increases empathy for people who are...

El matemático y escritor británico Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), quien firmó su popular obra literaria con el seudónimo de Lewis Carroll, con Alicia defiende el derecho de los niños y los jóvenes a opinar, y a decidir sobre el futuro. La historia de estas aventuras algo disparatadas se inspira en un paseo en barco por el río Támesis, en el cual acompañaron al autor un amigo y tres hermanas: Lorina Charlotte, Alice y Edith; de trece, diez y ocho años. En una parada a la orilla del río y a la sombra de unos almiares, el imaginativo profesor improvisó para las niñas una...