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El relato nos cuenta la historia de un sinsonte, esa ave prodigiosa capaz de imitar el sonido de casi todas las cosas, que un aciago día olvida su canto. This is the story of a mockingbird who, just like other mockingbirds, can imitate the sound of others birds, animals, and sometimes even the sound of machines. But, one day, this mockinbird forgets its own song.

In this book there are two friends: a dog and a bird who shares many adventures. One day they decide to make the world their home, open a window to the sky and everything changes: the air roars, the trees dance, roads are rivers and a bark the universet. Each word is a game and every game is a place to dream that a friend is laughter and song, silence and the whole world. En este libro hay dos amigos: un perro y un pájaro que comparten muchas aventuras....

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, WINGS OF LIFE utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet....

Marco Flamenco vive en una laguna calma. Desde su hogar podía ver las grandes olas del océano y decidió averiguar que había bajo las olas. Marco lives in a calm lagoon. Far off in the distant, he sees the waves of the ocean and decides to visit. While Marco explores the ocean, he meets many new friends.

From the over-exuberant parrot Mak to the snack-obsessed tapir Rosie, from the persnickety echidna Epi to the acrobatic pangolin Pango, from the ditzy goat Scrubby to the commonsensical kingfisher Kiki and the always-cool chameleon Carmello, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering...