A Necklace Of Raindrops

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BONITO RELATO ACERCA DE LOS PLACERES DEL VIAJE, Y SOBRETODO, DE ADENTRARSE EN LA AVENTURA Y LO DESCONOCIDO, QUE PUEDEN PROPORCIONARNOS GRATOS E INESPERADOS RESULTADOS. Emma y su tía, Lou son muy pobres y viven en un viejo autobús, al lado de un campo de manzanas en el que la mujer recolecta los frutos para su avaro y mezquino dueño, que tan sólo le deja quedarse con las podridas para hacer comida. Un día una gentil hada, en agradecimiento a la hospitalidad de la chiquilla, le regala tres vestidos nuevos, el más oscuros lo hará servir de esterilla para su gato, que siempre anda sucio de las patitas...descubrirá que dicha combinación les ayudará a las desdichadas habitantes del autobús...y al fin podrán ser felices, lejos del tirano jefe de Lou. I loved this when I was a child, but more or less forgot about it until I came across it in my university library. Then I remembered the magic of it, and all the illustrations were familiar... I didn't remember all the stories, but the first and second in particular made an impression on me, and the one that basically included Baba Yaga. They're almost fairytales, and that's how I'll shelve them here. So that’s where I’m headed for my response to Charli’s challenge to In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a thief or a theft.

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Jan Pienkowski's gorgeous illustrations perfectly complement Joan Aiken's words and each story feels almost like a much older story that you remember reading in a book of fairy tales. A fellow Robin Hobb lover gave me this book after we shared our mutual awe for The Realm of the Elderlings series, in a conversation that soon turned into discussions about magical realism books. Even though, Robin Hobb books are not particularly written in the magical realism genre there is something whimsical about them and this is why this book came up.Tres empleados de una estación de tren en pleno desierto y sin actividad alguna, deciden emprender alternativamente y con sus ahorros, un viaje más allá de lo que hasta ahora conocen...el último de ellos descubrirá la solución a sus deseos de vivir en plenitud. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-01-13 21:41:55 Associated-names Pienkowski, Jan, illus Boxid IA148117 Boxid_2 CH119601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Donor Note: My few words have not done justice to Joan Aiken’s beautiful story. If you can, please read the full version.) Filled with poetic repetitions, each story beautifully balances the prosaic with the wondrous – the old lady who mistakenly slips a bit of sky into her pie, which then floats her away; the little girl who finds elves in the shelves and a tiger in the house on her birthday night, and the mesmeric fable of three railway men manning a desert station who dream of travel. Magic has never been more elegantly shaped than in these effervescent short stories . . . The flight of imagination is delicately captured in Jan Pienkowski's accompanying silhouettes Julia Eccleshare, Guardian

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There was no milk to moisten his cereal, only a slap to the head for daring to ask. He grabbed his bag and disappeared before she used him as an ashtray, again. Telling the teacher — sometimes called “dobbing” in Australia. When is it important, when doesn’t it matter? What were Meg’s motivations? Una anciana de un país nórdico le está tejiendo a su nieto una colcha con mucho amor..dicha colcha, pues, resulta ser mágica. Mientras tanto, en un desierto muy lejano, un tirado y avaro mago ve como sus pobres y hambrientos camellos se comen su alfombra mágica. Entonces decide robar la colcha de retales...

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