Los grandes libros para los más pequeños

I am Sausal Creek/Soy el Arroyo Sausal is a bilingual children's book about the environmental and cultural history of Oakland told through the voice of a local waterway, Sausal Creek.

«La literatura mexicana de los últimos veinte años se ha caracterizado por la superposición de múltiples tendencias y propuestas innovadoras. Una de las características destacadas en esa producción es, sin duda, la proliferación de textos escritos por mujeres. Para comprender esa contribución, Eva Gundermann explora, con perspicacia y muy fundados conocimientos de la narratología contemporánea, uno de los textos difíciles de la narrativa mexicana: Mejor desaparece de Carmen Boullosa. Con una interpretación que se ancla en aspectos culturales, Eva Gundermann profundiza en las...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...