Recommended and New Products
Here you will find some books reviewed by the library team.
Recommended
Title: El increíble niño come libros
Publication: Mexico City, 2008
Author: Oliver Jeffers
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Format: Hardcover, 18 pages
ISBN: 978 968 16 8252 – 1
This witty book-album written by Oliver Jeffers immerses young and old readers alike in the amusing story of Henry, a boy who has found a particular fondness for books: He eats them! At breakfast, lunch and dinner, the plot thickens when Enrique notices that his mind is filled with all the knowledge from the books he devours, so his new purpose is “to be the smartest person in the world”. However, the situation gets complicated when all the ideas are a jumble in his head and his stomach can’t take one more book.
What decision will Enrique make? Will he continue eating books? Will his mind clear up?
A charming narration in which many children will discover how magnificent it can be to get lost in the pages of a book: to find answers to their questions in them; stories that are as crazy as they are strange and, in turn, allow them to continue to cultivate their imagination.
Title: Hombre Perro
Publication: New York, 2019
Author: Dav Polkey
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Hardcover, 229 pp
ISBN: 978-1-338-60131-2
From 7 years of age
Three expressions to describe, in the voice of the children, this magnificent collection: “it is the most “pro” series I have read”, “its characters are super fun” and “I like that it makes me think about how we should act, good or bad”.
HombrePerro, is a comic with a proposal of humor, adventure, creativity and great questions for its readers. It is an aesthetic invitation to link parents and children in a pleasant and critical reading around big questions and situations as everyday as eccentric, undoubtedly, full of laughter.
One of the first curiosities has to do with the title “Dogman” and its striking illustrations that become more interesting as the story progresses, as well as some literary references such as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick or Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
These narratives with stories of friends, superheroes and struggles against evil and injustice accompanied in some chapters by “flipodramas” are clearly a great series to start the year reading with the family and enjoy with laughter each title of the series.
