Hoyos / Holes

En su casa, la viejita se aburría. Ya nadie la venía a ver y ella ya no veía a nadie. Sólo estaba el reloj de la cocina para ver cómo pasaba el tiempo. Hasta que un día se aparece la Señora Muerte y todo eso cambia. Para entretenerla, la viejita preparó un buen té de China bien cargado. —¡Mmm, qué delicioso té!, se alegró la Señora Muerte chasqueando la lengua. —Es verdad —contestó la viejita—, y es todavía mejor con unos polvorones de canela. Entonces la viejita se puso a cocinar... Cinco minutos más o cinco minutos menos, ¿qué importa?

Pressia barely remembers the Detonations. In her sleeping cabinet of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about how the world changed. Now, at an age when everyone is required to turn to the militia to be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small.

An environmentally aware green dragon explains how trees and forests are created and survive, teaching children that all natural harmony is based on mutual respect and concern.

A young woman travels to a new world, and discovers who she really is. In October 1829, Georgiana Molloy embarked on a gruelling five-month sea journey from her home in England, hopeful of a prosperous future in the new settlement in Western Australia. But the land she finds is harsh and unyielding, food is often short, and the struggle of colonial life spells dreadful loneliness. Yet despite the hardships, she begins to see the unique beauty of her adopted country, and becomes fascinated with its amazing plant life, so different from anything she has known in England. Based on the real life...