El pirata Gorgo

A queen who begins a lengthy war with an army of allies by her side is also a mother who wants to explain her upcoming battle with cancer to her young children in this heartening and hopeful book. James and Simon are two young princes whose mother, the Queen, calls them into her throne room one day to explain that she is about to enter a war against a rebel force called breast cancer. She describes the changes that will be coming to the kingdom, such as the recruitment of a very specialized general who will lead the war effort, the acquisition of highly advanced weapons that target rebel...

17 autores, muertos de miedo, han escrito los textos de este libro. Lo cierto es que cada uno ha convocado a su fantasma a fin de crear estos cuentos y poemas con miedo para temblar, reir y pensar.

La niebla se cierne, cada vez más densa, sobreHazey Valley. Un pueblo tranquilo duerme, sinsospechar el mal que lo acecha. La mansión de lacolina, soberana y fundadora, dormita, esperando ala persona adecuada… ¿Serás tú?Una piedra cruza la ventana produciendo unsonido de cristales rotos. ¿Qué ha sido esa sombratras las cortinas? Juraría que algo se ha movidodentro de esa vieja casa abandonada. Sal de aquíantes de que…Pero ya es demasiado tarde. Ella te ha visto. Esosojos azules y fríos se centran en ti, sólo en ti. Notienes escapatoria. Aileen… Ven a mí…

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...