Thirteen-year-old Sunday Gråe wants to follow in her late father's footsteps and become Animalia - the way of working with animals' unique abilities that is taught only at the prestigious and secretive Svalbard School. Sunday's dreams come true when she is admitted, but the school is more dangerous than she thought. The Animalia students are mysteriously going missing... and she could be next.On an icy peninsula in Norway, there is a school where...

Join 11 year-olds Zoe and Alex on a thrilling, beautifully animated adventure, as they are swept from their local library into Animalia, a unique world of speaking animals!

Me llevó mucho tiempo, y el paso por dos países que no eran el mío, para darme cuenta de que para ser uno mismo es siempre mejor estar con otro, sobre todo si el otro pertenece a una especie distinta, es decir, si es totalmente no uno. El deseo frustrado de tener una mascota suele ser una situación recurrente en los recuerdos de infancia. El caso de la narradora de estos relatos no es la excepción. En alianza con su hermana, no perdían oportunidad...

The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth. Aracelis Girmay's debut collection won...

Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Colleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America, one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations. Boggs concentrates on the...

"Alfaguara republishes this anthology with the fabulous illustrations of Isol Misenta, which perfectly accompany these stories where the bestial emerges and the irrational comes into play. Aurora Bernárdez, Julio Cortázar's loving literary executor, gathered twenty-one stories by the writer to form a unique collection of the fauna that inhabits the Cortazarian universe. There, as is known, animals that we know coexist with others that only exist...