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Lonely Tree gets excited when new trees start growing around him and all sorts of animals come along. Time passes by and our majestic friend becomes sad and lonely again: the trees disappear and the animals leave. The rhyming verse talks about the environment and the deforestation problem, illustrations echo feelings of happiness, and sadness and fear expressed in the text create an ideal vehicle for children to connect with nature.

Desde los estudios de literatura comparada analiza el uso de la ecfrasis, "la representación verbal de una representación visual", en la poesía. En una primera parte, la autora amplía y actualiza la discusión sobre este concepto y sus distintas concepcion, para luego analizar diez poemas escritos en el siglo xx que "hablan" sobre obras visuales. Relaciona así a William Carlos Williams y Seamus Heaney con Brueghel; a Rafael Alberti con El Bosco; a John Ashbery con el Parmigianino, Ernst, Picasso y Miró; a Margaret Atwood (pasando por Browning y Shelley) con Manet; a Derek Walcott con...

As her grandmother's health declines, a young girl begins to lovingly take the lead in their cozy shared autumn traditions. Poetic prose paired with evocative illustrations by Mexican illustrator Claudia Navarro make for a beautiful celebration of life and a gentle introduction to the death of a loved one.

¡Ayúdale a Dora a contar frutas para la canasta de picnic! Help Dora count fruit for her picnic basket!

A young girl buys the most frighteningly life-like Halloween mask ever--only to discover that she can't take it off."