Classic Fairy Tales Vol 1

Once damas atrevidas aprovecha la estructura sustrativa de las rimas tradicionales que se encuentran en todas las tradiciones culturales para crear un cuento que actualiza y aproxima a los primeros lectores una vieja rima tradicional gallega

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

In times of war, an arrow broke through a window. It killed the queen. Since then, windows are prohibited in the castle. But the princess Keiko is curious and when she opens the only window that remains, she encounters a friend. This is a book about the absurdity of overprotection of children.

«Pocos autores hay en la narrativa actual con la capacidad de sorpresa, la ternura y la profunda originalidad que caracterizan la escritura de Gaiman.» Guiado por su instinto, un bebé escapa de la cuna en medio de la noche y logra alcanzar el...