Juan es un niño muy valiente que no conocía el miedo. Había escuchado hablar de él en muchas ocasiones, pero no sabía lo que era. Tantas ganas tenía de conocerlo que un día salió de su casa dispuesto a vivir aventuras, esperando toparse en algunas de ellas con algo que le hiciera sentir miedo.
- Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral.
¿Qué se siente estar realmente aterrorizado? ¿Estar consumido de pavor y temblar ante lo desconocido, lo grotesco o lo macabro a las altas horas de la noche?
Un niño, libre de esta sensación, buscará encontrarla. En su búsqueda se encontrará con sacerdotes, fantasmas e incluso gatos negros, que tratarán de brindarle esta emoción tan humana que carece. Su viaje no será fácil, y el niño se verá enfrentado a las más espeluznantes cosas que este mágico mundo inmortalizado por los hermanos Grimm pueda ofrecer.
Analizado por filósofos y escritores Europeos, esta leyenda clásica alemana rompe con el esquema del cuento sobre el hijo menor, que es guiado por seres mágicos hacia un objetivo final, dándonos un personaje fuerte que busca ser más humano.
Antes de morir, un rey le pide a Juan, su fiel criado, enseñarle al príncipe todos los tesoros que heredará, a excepción de uno. ¿Qué misterio guarda este último?
“Go down the crater of the volcano Snaefells. Follow the shadow just before the month of July. You will find your way to the center of the Earth. I did it.” That mysterious message, found in a long-lost letter, propels a young man and his uncle on the adventure of a lifetime: to a prehistoric world below the earth where dinosaurs and other strange creatures still roam. Jules Verne's classic fantasy will enchant a new generation of readers.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid.
Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid – the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.
The opulence of the white “Madam’s” house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face – that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease.
This edition of Beverley Naidoo’s classic story includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction by Michael Rosen, former Children’s Laureate.
Märchen-Klassiker der Brüder Grimm!Bei ihrem Spaziergang durch den Wald kommen Jorinde und Joringel dem Bannkreis der bösen Zauberin zu nahe: Jorinde wird in eine Nachtigall verwandelt und in einen Käfig gesperrt. Für Joringel nur eine Möglichkeit, um Jorinde zu retten: Er muss sie befreien.
Die Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm sind auf der ganzen Welt bekannt und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. Zudem wurden sie vielfach verfilmt. Als Vorlage für ihre Märchen dienten den Brüdern Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm vorwiegend mündliche Überlieferungen.
'I felt something alive moving on my left leg ... when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high'
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnm's and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.
There was a purpose in what happened to Johnny Tremain, but he couldn't see it at the time. Johnny had been Mr. Lapham's star pupil, a clever, industrious apprentice silversmith, if not always well liked, at least envied by all who knew him around Hancock's Wharf. His skills had even been admired by Paul Revere, the finest silversmith in Boston. But when Johnny seriously burns his hand in a furnace, he finds himself crippled, without an occupation, and with no means of taking care of himself. It seems that fate has literally dealt him a cruel hand. Soon, trouble reaches Johnny's life in a new way. Swept along in the tide of events leading to the Boston Tea Party and the first skirmishes of Lexington and Concord, Johnny finds a job as message-carrier for the Sons of Liberty. As young and old men alike make sacrifices for a new country, Johnny prepares to take his own stand in the cause for freedom.
A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War.
Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught with Otis, Hancock, and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting operations and subterfuges leading up to the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington. As Johnny is forced into the role of a full-grown man in the face of his new country's independence, he finds that his relations with those he loves changes for the better as well.
Johnny Tremain is historical fiction at its best, portraying the living drama of Revolutionary Boston through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.
Fourteen enchanting animal tales featuring some of Johnny Morriss favourite creatures. The stories are: 'Charley and Gladys, the Warthogs'; 'Lulu, the Baby Seal'; 'The Kookaburras'; 'Bubbles the Hippopotamus'; 'Chatterbox the Budgerigar'; 'Hooter the Elephant'; 'Mark and Cark the Jackdaws'; 'Mark and Cark's New Nest'; 'Big Banghead and Little Bumpnut'; 'Harum Scarum's Mistake'; 'Snowdrop the Polar Bear'; Toodle-oo Solves the Problem'; 'Snapper the Crocodile' and 'Tubthump the Gorilla'. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now reissued. This recording was previously released on LP in 1972.
Enjoy a delightful excursion into the wonderful world of make-believe, where fairy-tales and old favorite stories come vividly to life. Narration by expert storytellers, music, exciting sound effects, and dramatic dialogue will inspire children. This classic tale is sure to become a favorite pastime, treating children to a magical fantasy of entertaining enjoyment, along with life lessons to which they can relate.
Louisa May Alcott's continuing tales of the March family, especially Jo, as she records the day-to-day occurrences at her school in this, the third novel in the sequence begun in Little Women and Little Men.
