El Patito Feo

En muchos cuentos populares los animales actúan como personas y, por tanto, se les atribuyen sus mismas cualidades y debilidades. Algunos son presumidos, otros gandules, los hay incomprendidos y también confiados. Personajes de cuento que, sin duda, ilustran la vida real.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year excluded by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

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.

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.Well, some of her does.A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told ...

Annyrose es una huérfana que ha quedado en manos de la despiadada O.O. Mary. Cuando una pandilla de bandidos se dirige su rancho, la vieja escapa y deja a Annyrose indefensa ante Joaquín Murrieta, el legendario forajido.