INFANTILES Y JUVENILES

Meet a chef who cooks pizza over an active volcano in Guatemala. Visit a bridge in Hungary that was repaired with LEGO bricks. And get to know the world’s smelliest frog. You’ll find all this and more inside this jam-packed compendium of weird wonders from all around the world. Travel from continent to continent and from sea to space to find the coolest animals, natural wonders, ancient architecture, and festivals the universe has to offer. It’s everything Weird But True! fans love, and then some: adventure-filled awesomeness packed with gorgeous photography, snackable fun facts, and in-depth info about the strange history and science that makes our world so wonderful.

t’s the 1980s—The United States has emerged victorious in the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon remains in office, and the Cold War rages on. Superheroes have been outlawed, with some going into retirement, some becoming government agents, and still others turning to vigilantism. And an unknown assassin is stalking a group of heroes who’ve fallen from grace, plagued by all-too-human failings. After this scattered team—Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan, and Ozymandias—comes together to mourn a friend, they discover that the murder is part of a larger plot to upend the fragile geo-political balance and spread calamity across the world.

James Anderson had a plan. Or half of one. All that matters is that he managed to do what his older brother, the famous Aaron Warner Anderson, never did: infiltrate Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment. In the past decade no outsider has breached the stronghold of the authoritarian regime, but James is in. In a prison cell, sure, but as far as James is concerned, a win is a win. It’s been ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment. Ten years since the notorious duo—Juliette Ferrars and Aaron Warner Anderson—led a worldwide rebellion and established the New Republic of the West. But after a decade of unsettling quiet, The Reestablishment is ready to make a devastating move, and they have the perfect person for the job. Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. She always has a plan. On Ark Island, where constant surveillance is packaged as security, even emotions must be experienced with caution. A trained assassin, her every movement is monitored by synthetic intelligence—and when she’s given an order to kill, she never hesitates.

Hailed by elementary educators and remedial reading specialists, these enormously popular books are now used in schools and libraries throughout the English-speaking world.

With a little help from Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat in the Hat travels the planet—and beyond—to introduce beginning readers to 17 strange but true weather events, among them waterspouts, dust devils, ball lightning, snow donuts, fire whirls, red sprites, sundogs, ice tsunamis, clouds shaped like UFOs and cinnamon rolls, diamond rain, metallic snow, and a storm so wide three Earths could fit INSIDE it!

Conmovedora y optimista, una historia familiar que se inscribe en la lista de las mejores novelas autobiográficas de nuestro tiempo. Inspirada en la infancia de la propia autora, ¡Vuela, abejorro! nos traslada a la Viena de 1945 y nos cuenta el día a día de aquella convulsa época desde la mirada inquieta e inocente de su protagonista. La reconocida autora Christine Nöstlinger cuenta en esta obra la historia de una niña de ocho años cuya familia se muda a las afueras de la ciudad, después de que una bomba destruyera el piso en el que vivían. En el nuevo barrio, conocerá a algunos soldados rusos que se instalan en su casa y que no son para nada como ella creía, especialmente Cohn, un cocinero muy peculiar con quien la pequeña entabla una entrañable amistad. Con la guerra como trasfondo, la protagonista nos muestra a través de su inteligente e ingeniosa mirada cómo ha sido crecer entre los escombros de la Viena de los años cuarenta, las dificultades y temores de la vida cotidiana... Pero ¡Vuela, abejorro! es también una historia de amistad y humanidad que, con un peculiar sentido del humor, demuestra que aún en la situación más dramática es posible encontrar aliados, reír y disfrutar de la naturaleza y del lado luminoso de la vida.

«Mi pequeña, mamá quiere contarte por qué vuela tanto, por qué no estoy tanto tiempo como quisiera en nuestro nido. Volar no siempre ha sido fácil si naces mujer. Con este cuento quiero recordarte lo importante que es aprender a volar alto y que el cielo sea un lugar seguro para tu vuelo.» A través de un cuento emotivo, Marina Marroquí teje un relato protagonizado por tres generaciones de aves. Además de un homenaje a todas aquellas mujeres que lucharon por alzar el vuelo y no pudieron, este libro es también un inspirador mensaje de empoderamiento dirigido a las niñas: para llegar a lo más alto, no hay que rendirse nunca.