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Beasts in the basement. A gangster in a rabbit suit. And rats in the modem. Great-great-grandma in the freezer. A talking spider in the attic. And a crocodile in the moat. Titus in his bedroom. Baby Damp in her nappy. And Pandora in a strop. Add a stressed-out witch for a mum, a kidnapped dad, and a nanny who puts Mary Poppins to shame and you'll conjure up family life at StregaSchloss. It's bizarre!

This inspiring biography tells the story of New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, a woman who championed bilingual literature. When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown into a lush landscape as generations of children and storytellers continue to share her tales and celebrate Pura’s legacy.

Oswald doesn’t want a new friend either, especially not a book-loving, bed-making, broccoli-eating boy. But when an imaginary friend gets a new assignment, they’re stuck there until the kid no longer needs them. And with Oswald’s home world of Imagination mysteriously crumbling away into nothing, befriending Reggie seems like a safer bet than disappearing with it. But when Oswald forgets Reggie’s birthday, Reggie runs away to Imagination.

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Maddie, Celim, Juliette e Sasha stanno per vivere una giornata apparentemente normale. Ma per loro tutto sta per cambiare, bruscamente. Nessuno di loro è pronto per un tale cataclisma.Gli viene affidata una missione della massima importanza: il destino dell'umanità è nelle loro mani. Dovranno affrontare creature malvagie, sfidare forze soprannaturali e soprattutto superare le loro paure e rimanere uniti, a qualunque costo.

Una producción de aficionados a los cuentos infantiles en donde podremos escuchar dramatizaciones de cuentos conocidos o no tan conocidos en la voz de creadores de contenido que tienen muchas ganas de relatar estas historias a través de la vida de Don Puro Cuento, una persona mayor que disfruta pasar tiempo platicando con su nieto y su conciencia.

A causa di un brutto voto a scuola William è costretto ad aiutare il padre, il quale lavora come giardiniere. Sarà un'occasione unica per lui: quel giardino molto, molto speciale nasconde un segreto, un segreto che serberà per sempre nel suo cuore.

Cuando llegó a Estados Unidos, en 1921, Pura traía los cuentos folclóricos de su querido Puerto Rico. Al encontrar un nuevo hogar en la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York como asistente bilingüe, convirtió sus historias populares en libros y esparció semillas de historias por todo el país.

Inspirada en el bestseller #1 del New York Times Ella persistió / She Persisted de Chelsea Clinton y Alexandra Boiger, llega esta serie en Chapter Books sobre mujeres que sobresalieron, lucharon y se levantaron contra viento y marea, como Pura Belpré. Pura Belpré se mudó de Puerto Rico a...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Pura Belpré! Pura Belpré grew up in Puerto Rico surrounded by stories. When she moved to New York and was...