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Tummy full, story read. Yawn, stretch, time for bed. Now one more kiss and one more hug, I drift to sleep, safe and snug. A classic bedtime ritual experienced through a baby's eyes, this book conveys safe sleep practices in a gentle, rhythmic way. A perfect gift for new families, it was created for Charlie's Kids Foundation, whose mission is educating families about SIDS prevention.

Sebastian can't sleep because his new neighbors' dog won't stop barking at night. This is the best excuse he has to meet his neighbor, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Nadia is strange and mysterious; in fact, his friend Pedro is sure that she is a vampire. But none of this matters to Sebastian, who is determined to confess his love for her. So between pranks and nearly heroic acts, Sebastian discovers the distance that too often lies between dreams and reality. Considering the freshness of the narration and the nearness of Sebastian's experiences and readers' lives, it doesn't surprise us ...

"Diego y Julia llevan tiempo dando la lata con lo de tener una mascota, y precisamente la primera vez que la sacan a pasear...la secuestran en el parque"--Cover.

Desde los estudios de literatura comparada analiza el uso de la ecfrasis, "la representación verbal de una representación visual", en la poesía. En una primera parte, la autora amplía y actualiza la discusión sobre este concepto y sus distintas concepcion, para luego analizar diez poemas escritos en el siglo xx que "hablan" sobre obras visuales. Relaciona así a William Carlos Williams y Seamus Heaney con Brueghel; a Rafael Alberti con El Bosco; a John Ashbery con el Parmigianino, Ernst, Picasso y Miró; a Margaret Atwood (pasando por Browning y Shelley) con Manet; a Derek Walcott con...