El sendero de lo inesperado

Those nasty birds come and sit on the kangaroo's windowsill every morning and make such a racket that he can't sleep. The poor kangaroo is going crazy, and he doesn't know what to do. Since he doesn't really understand why birds are so rude, he decides to teach them a lesson by showing them that thay're not the only animals who can fly.

"A bilingual story, inspired by the childhood of Valentina Cruz, whose family was one of the first permanent inhabitants of the Galapagos islands. Valentina makes a promise to protect the islands and her animal friends"--

Leitmeritz, el brujo, resuelve los problemas de todos con la ayuda del Libro Rojo de los Hechizos. Pero no puede ayudar a su asistente, Chancery, el hombre azul y triste a quien la gente del pueblo llama el Horrible. Un día, mientras el Brujo está fuera del castillo, Chancery le pide al Libro Rojo de los Hechizos que le haga lindo. Este deseo trae consecuencias inesperadas.

When asked to deliver contraband papers to her native island home of Cuba in 1852, twenty-year-old Emilia Casanova gulped audibly in a most unladylike manner. This was her chance to be in the thick of the rebellion against Spanish authority, something she had always dreamed of, instead of on the sidelines more befitting someone of her station. Even though she would be branded a traitor and endanger her family if she was caught, she pushed her fear aside and accepted the mission. Back in Cuba following her first summer abroad, distributing seditious propaganda isn't as easy as it had seemed...