A Princess Rescue

This book offers a selection of the adventures of Achilles that occurred in the last year of the famous Trojan War. For fifty-one days the demigod was the most cunning of the Achaean warriors in his fight against the Trojans. Achilles' anger and his confrontation with Agamemnon, the duel over Helen or the one between Paris and Menelaus, the power of Hector's army, the bravery of Patroclus, the tears of Priam... All these stories make up an epic universe that, explained in a simple way and magnificently illustrated, has fascinated everyone for many centuries, now also the little ones.

In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the Man in the Silver Mask is pitted against the terrible forces of evil—los rudos, the bad guys of lucha libre. They make the audience boo and hiss! In the end, though, the Man in the Silver Mask triumphs and, in the process, gains a lifelong fan.

Readers can choose between twenty-eight possible endings as they follow the adventures of a young man as he searches for the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas.

Esta colección es una obra original de gran riqueza debido a la innegable personalidad de las ilustraciones y a la estructura de los relatos. A lo largo de los libros, el lector entra en contacto con toda una serie de personajes convertidos, para su sorpresa, en protagonistas de un relato, durante el cual algunos de ellos cambian y evolucionan. En ocasiones, se descubren criaturas hasta ese momento desconocidas y se aguarda con ilusión el próximo 'libro aventura'. La emotiva historia de una pequeña hormiga que se ve forzada a salir de su comunidad por no resultar lo suficientemente...