Una Postal Desde Italia (a Postcard from Italy)

Summer is over and that can only mean one thing for eight-year-old Mallory McDonald (like the restaurant, but no relation)--she has to go back to school. But not just any school, a new school with all new kids in it. To make matters worse, her mom is going, too! She's the new music teacher, and Mallory can't think of anything that could possibly be worse--until her first day.

"Milly loves to be silly! But when Dad wakes up with a cold on his birthday, Milly changes all of her silly plans to help him feel better. Milly loves to be silly, but she loves Dad even more and wants to help take care of him on his special day"--

"Twins Camila and Carlos find a postcard in their mailbox from a girl in Japan, and they set off on a magical adventure to see her country"--

This novel, narrated in two voices for their characters, playing strong themes that make up the life of a boy and a girl living in Havana, Cuba. Discrimination, sexism, harassment, female subjugation, homosexuality, are treated with subtlety through metaphors, pauses, silences and innuendos that make this a moving and thoughtful book.

Cinco bonitas historial de moscas, ilustradas en el cuaderno de tareas para llevar a la escuela. Desde un Robomonstruo grande y feo que se alimenta de palabras cariñosas, hasta un perrofante que los primos le regalaron a Luicía. En otra historia, Catalina goza encerrando los duendes en un frasco azul junto a las bolitas que se lleva del cuarto de su hermano Héctor.

El término "superdotado" nunca se ha aplicado a un chico como Donovan Curtis, quien es más conocido por sus bromas absurdas y estrafalarias. Cuando una de sus acciones tiene resultados verdaderamente desastrosos, parece que al fin ha ido demasiado lejos. Pero gracias a un error de uno de los administrativos del colegio, Donovan es enviado a la Academia de Excelencia Escolar (AEE), a formar parte de un programa especial para estudiantes dotados y talentosos. No era precisamente lo que Donovan tenía en mente, pero resulta que no podría haber unmejor escondite para él. Ahora solo tendrá...

Inside, outside, upside down: Young readers will discover the many ways to celebrate the joy of loving who you are! With fun, energetic text and dazzlingly colorful illustrations, this lively and engaging book is now in a Spanish bilingual board book edition. High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves--inside and out. Messy hair? Beaver breath? So what! Here's a little girl who knows what really matters. At once silly and serious, Karen Beaumont's joyous rhyming text and David Catrow's wild illustrations unite in a book...