Victoria Blanco
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170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Shel Silverstein is a genius of reaching children with silly words and simple pen-and-ink illustrations. In these poems a boy turns into a television, a girl eats a whale, crocodiles go to the dentist, shadows get washed and diamond gardens are planted. All these crazy scenarios make...
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460 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
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"Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de televisi̤n m̀s seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada de c̀ido ačtico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que su x̌ito aumenta lo hacen tambǐn sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no s̤lo est̀ ensęando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambǐn desafìndolas a alterar el orden...
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xv, 234 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.