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Toonfy is an imaginary character who comes to the children to play and teach; combining words and pictures with numbers, colors, objects, foods, forms, and letters, to help children develop their intelligence towards the first steps in reading and writing. This is an ideal choice for curious kids and demanding parents.

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...

"Nombres robados" es un relato sobre la soledad de los niños que, cuando suena el timbre, esperan en clase a que salgan los demás, los niños a los que sus compañeros nunca llaman por su nombre; es, en otras palabras, un relato sobre el acoso escolar. Mediante esta narración breve, poética y cruda, el autor e ilustrador Tàssies apela directamente al lector para que tome partido y no se refugie en la comodidad de la indiferencia.

Aquella noche, Lady Windermere había congregado en su casa a la flor y nata de la sociedad londinense. no faltaba su quiromántico, un enigmático gentleman capaz de leer el pasado y el futuro en las líneas de la mano. Lord Arthur se presta con entusiasmo, sin sospechar que el horror y la desgracia también se predicen...