'This is the story of Victoria the cow: the cow died and that was the end of the story.' That's how the popular story goes, and it's only slightly longer than the story of the dinosaur from Monterroso.

The night is huge and structureless. But it is punctuated by our hearts. It's mid-afternoon, the weather is good, father rolls up his shirt sleeves. A dog barks outside, the elm trees rustle, the tap in the bathroom drips.

What would you do if you discovered that you have superpowers and your best friends also have strange talents and your greatest enemy is the Devil?

A semi-autobiographical novel, stirred by the stigma of an amour fou for an older, alcoholic man, The Prodigy Girls is also a comedy in several acts, and a tale with hints of gothic horror.

There are as many stories as there are words and voices inside people. There are as many poems as there are sounds and colours in nature. So what happens when a poem gets inside a story? Suddenly, a legend appears.

Toni feels that he is a writer who never writes and a teacher who never teaches.

The purest of oral African traditions, known as Nisintory, evoking the collective action of telling and listening to stories, displays all its magic and luminosity in Fumilayo Johnson's stories.

Nuria's teacher has given her a box of silkworms to look after.

Abril and Xalaquia have a lot in common. They have both recently turned sixteen. They both want to be the mistresses of their own destinies. And they are both about to see their lives change for ever.

After Franco's victory, the young republican doctor Guillermo García is able to continue living in Madrid, thanks to a false identity organised for him by his best friend, a diplomat whose life Guillermo saved in 1937 and who in 1946 comes home on