Este pequeño libro trata de la vida cotidiana de Zezé, un niño pobre de Brasil. Sus travesuras son divertidísmas, y su imaginación casi indomable. En este libro, escrito en un lenguaje sencillísimo, el lector adulto vuelve a vivir el mundo olvidado de la niñez a través de este Zezé listísimo y sensible, y se nos desgarra el corazón al ver cómo el dolor y la decepción acaban con la curiosidad, la imaginación y el sentido de la maravilla que posee Zezé, y que también nosotros poseíamos de niños.

Este verano le leí Mi planta de naranja-lima a un sobrino mío de 10 años que estaba embobado con sus juegos de vídeo. Sin embargo, a partir del primer capítulo, mi sobrino quedó fascinado por la historia de Zezé. Se me acurrucaba con la vista perdida imaginándose la vida de Zezé, y disfrutaba de sus travesuras con risitas cómplices.

Este libro es una maravilla.

tremendo libro, super bueno, recuerdo que las lagrimas se me salian cuand zeze llego tarde a la reparticion de jugetes

Las veces que he leido este libro es inumerable. Encuentro la historia como una con la que muchos en ciertos pasajes del libro se pueden identificar con el personaje. Tiene un poco de todo lo cual hace la historia interesante. llena de picardia, ilusion sentimiento. Perdi mi copia del libro y ahora que mi hijo empieza la escuela, me gustaria que sea parte de su coleccion.

This is a wonderful gift for a new mom or a mom with 5 children. The authors' very personal stories will make you feel that you have someone that understands exactly what you are going through. I enjoyed this book so much and will recommend it to all my friends.

This is a wonderful book. I smiled all the way threw it. It really makes you realize that as a stay at home mom/ work at home mom you are not alone in the things we do and have to go threw. I am looking forward to new books from this Author.

For any mother who needs a lift, some laughter, and the need to be understood, this book is a LIFE SAVER! The author shares a collection of stories from her own life as a stay at home mom. Not only is it something we can all relate to, but it will become a much needed source of inspiration for any woman who has or plans to have children. I found myself laughing, filling up with tears, and finally feeling like there is someone out there who affirms that motherhood is perhaps the most important role a woman can play. Any mother will find something they can relate to, sympathize with, or benefit from when reading this book. Jill Schafer Boehme is honest, real, and passionate. This book will be the perfect addition to your collection, whether you are a mommy, daddy, grandparent, or what have you. It may even have you eating your lima beans!

As a new ferret mommy I wanted to make sure I did all my homework before bringing the little one's home. This book covers all the basics and then some and offers the author's own experiences as a ferret owner as well. Even if you are not new to ferret parenting this book is a great resource for the lifetime of your ferret. I am looking forward to anything new Deborah Jeans puts out.

This book has precise and up-to-date information on ferrets, written with a tinge of humor. It is also complete with pictures and amusing illustrations.

From her touching memorial to her fuzzies ,all the way through the practical hands and hearts on information Ms. Jeans delivers what she promises a very practical guide to ferret care.All fuzzies should be lucky enough to have owners that have read this book. Better than raisins, a new snuggy sack or jingle ball. Thank you again Ms. Jeans

David Weitzman has a love of technology and history. This can be demonstrated by observing the names of books he authored, including titles ranging from "Traces of the Past: A Field Guide to Industrial Archaeology" to "Underfoot: An Everyday Guide to Exploring the American Past." This fortuitous blend of history and technology is the underlying theme of this book.

For those of you who may be expecting a typical 'picture book' about a steam locomotive, this book will definitely come as a surprise. Although well illustrated, there are no photographs. This omission is more than compensated for by the line drawings that are precise and informative. The text is educational and interesting; the text and the line drawings compement each other very nicely. The combination is such that the reader is virtually transported by osmosis back to the year 1925 and to the dark and dingy backshops of the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima, Ohio, in order to not only personally witness but to actually physically participate in the birth of this magnificent machine, the first 'Super Power' steam locomotive ever.

Another pleasant surprise in this work is the interaction of man and machine, the creator and the fruit of his labor. Too many books about the locomotive ignore the human role; here the combination of man and machine is a symbiotic relationship.

This book is both easy to read and educational, and it is designed to appeal to anyone in age from beginning high-schooler to adult. Anyone possessing an interest in the mechanical world should obtain a copy of this book.

My 10 year old son and I read this book together and loved it. We are both train and locomotives fans but despite what we knew we both learned more. This book is expecially good for kids since it is told through the eyes of an 18 year old boy, but is equally interesting for adults.

This book is amazing on so many levels. It teaches you how trains are designed and built, how math is applicable in the real world, how people get along, how some people are better suited to different, but equally important jobs, engineering, give and take (compromise). But it doesn't quite teach you, it intigrates these lessons in the oral history it is presenting. Superpower could be about anything and you would still learn SO much about life. I recommend this book to anyone, any age. It will change the life of a boy though, guaranteed. It will inspire him to study more at the very least.

This book gives one hope. It is written clearly and with some humour, making it an easy read. It provides logical and simple steps for dealing with love and life in general. I look forward to finding a partner to try this with! A valuable tool for learning to be a calmer, more rational and happy person.

I found this book to be so informative with my marriage. My spouse and I have been dealing with the same reoccuring issues in our marriage for years and with the help of "The Love Workbook," we seem to actually be overcoming them finally. I would highly recommend this book to anyone in a relationship.

I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE VERY INFORMATIVE AND HELPFUL. I WISH THAT I COULD HAVE HAD THIS BOOK BEFORE THE BREAKUP OF MY MARRIAGE. I WILL SEND IT TO MY EX-HUSBAND, HE NEEDS TO READ THIS TOO. I AM SURE THAT MOST COUPLES COULD BENEFIT FROM READING THIS BOOK TOGETHER.

Jose Lezama Lima achieved one of the most complex and mesmerizing novels of the XXth century in Latin America. Paradiso is a Bildungsroman (a novel about an individual's growing process) as it is a Kunstroman (novel about the artist). The reader will find many references to Lezama's life, but his work goes beyond a self portrait. Jose Cemi is a little cuban boy who grows up having breathing problems, and grasping the lifes of those who were before him.
His individuality mixes with the other's and the result is a complex narrator, an overwhelming amount of literary, cultural and mythological references, a refined use of the metaphor and a hightened sense of reality. Cemi's world is more than nature... it is supernatural. Cemi attends to the world of death, as he remembers the lifes of his ancestors, as they are told to him by his mother Rialta, and grandmother Augusta. The first half of Paradiso is all about the family... then uncle Alberto's death marks a point of change in the novel. From that moment on, it focuses in Cemi's friendship with two other students: Fronesis and Focion. The three of them constitute a triangle in which homosexuality, love, erotism, unity, mythology and androginy are the main topics. As well as incest.
When this simbolic triangle breaks, Cemi is ready for the epiphany: he meets Oppiano Licario: a friend of his father who promised him, as he was dying, to look after his son (Cemi). Licario also witnessed Alberto's sexual iniciation. He is a poet, and he is the one who can bring Jose Cemi out of the time of desperation into a rythm of reflection and artistic contemplation.
There is so much more to this novel... You can only know what it is all about by reading it. I can here only give you a few pieces. As Lezama believed: only what is hard is really rewarding, and this is particularly true for young people.

I would argue that Paradiso is the best novel of the 20th century. I don't believe this because of the plot; as a matter of fact, I don't really think there is much of a plot here. I say it because of factors that have to do with the author, the time in which he wrote this, and how those elements combined to make this incredible piece of literature.

A little bit of history: by the time Lezama Lima wrote this novel, he was already a well-known writer in Cuba. He and some friends had started a literary magazine, and actually, he was best known for his poetry. When Castro's revolution came to be in 1959, it marked the end of Cuba's literary life. Writers like Lezama Lima could keep writing so long as they wrote nothing controversial, nothing too "out there," nothing that could even hint a thought of anything that could be deemed "counter-revolutionary." And soon after Lezama Lima wrote Paradiso.

Now a little bit about the novel. Consider it, really, a long, endless conversation with many, many asides. It is complex if only because there are so many run-on sentences, so many thoughts and descriptions and details, that it's easy to lose track and just find yourself thinking, period. And I think that's what he was going for. The book covers just about everything: politics, ethics, philosophy, homosexuality, love, religion, etc. I thought when I read it that basically Lezama Lima just wanted to express his thoughts and opinions on everything (I later learned I was pretty correct about that, but more on that in a minute). What this brilliant man had to say is well-worth reading, even today.

But now, let's go back to the time and place when this was written. A few years after Castro came into power, and after he had declared his Communist intentions. With the publication of this novel, Lezama Lima's fate was sealed. As a homosexual man living in a country with a severely homophobic dictator, life had already been getting more and more difficult for him. But when Paradiso came out, he was officially declared "non-person" by the regime. For those unfamiliar with the concept, I will explain that being declared "non-person" essentially means just that: you cease to exist in the eyes of the government. You are erased from the history books, from the record books, you lose your job, people who visit you or have anything to do with you risk losing their government freebies and suffering reprisals. Lezama Lima was no longer a national literary treasure, and the man who up until that moment was considered one of the most respected writers in Latin America, was reduced to nothing.

I had the honor of meeting his younger sister a short while ago. She was sharing the contents of private letters between her and her brother from the years after the publication of Paradiso to those before his death. They revealed so much about Lezama Lima as a person, how he saw life, how he regarded his family (all of whom were in exile and whom he missed terribly). They reveal his gentleness, the tenderness he felt about nature, his family, his memories. And they also reveal the hell that his life had become: the loneliness, the constant vigilance, the pain he felt over what had become of his country.

Being privy to such an experience really only affirmed my thoughts about this novel. He must have known what lay in store for him, and yet it didn't stop him. He still wrote it. When the government demanded that he denounce his own book, the one he considered his masterpiece, his message to the world, in essence, he refused. It simply fills me with awe. For that alone the book is worth reading.

I was thrown a bit by the first, say, hundred or so pages of this monumental novel. What was going on with the almost unbearably baroque prose style? The author's very sentences, cluttered and clogged with obscure adjectives, parentheical asides, dangling clauses, incomprehensible imagery, seemed to be undermining the flow of his (admittedly digressive, non-linear) plot. I felt like no one was getting anywhere, which, after persevering for a few hundred more pages, I realized was the point. It would be all but impossible to synopsize this novel's central action--if you can even call it action, for, as in Proust and the Great Russian novels (which served as obvious models, it seems safe to say)--there's a lot more conversing than carrying on. There are great, chapters-long debates on homosexuality, philosophy, and politics. Evidently a voracious and learned reader, Lezama Lima seems to have tried to cram all of his knowledge into this, his one and only novel, which, again, is appropriate considering that the book itself seems to be about the totality of human existence (I'm still riddling this one out.) Once I became used to the style and to the rather lenghty debates, I realized that what I was immersed in was a masterpiece, a book as confusing, messy, overwhelming and beautiful as life itself. I can't say that every reader will warm to Paradiso--it is hard going from start to glorious finish--but I do believe that the book deserves a crtical reevaluation. Let's put it alongside not only Gabriel Garcia Maquez and Carlos Fuentes, but also Joyce, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Proust and see where it stands. I have the feeling it might be one of the more important books of the last century.

The first time I read this book, I wound up laughing so hard I cried! It is an endearing book of how children see the world. It includes several humourous answers and a few, tender thought-provokers. I recommend this book for all "kids at heart!"

I love Mr. Bendars book of what children, like i was when I wrote my entry, think would make the world better. My entry, which i made 2 yaers ago when I was 12, was something like: The world would be a better place if photosynthesis could work for people to prevend hunger. Some of the entries are serious like mine, and sone are funny. Three other people in my school have their thoughts in this book. I would recomend that everyone has a copy of this book!

A wonderful mix of view points from children on what would make for a perfect world. Both funny and touching, I was amused and amazed.

A beautifully written and poigniant account of a return to Cuba. Vivid. Wonderfully crafted. Eloquent and insightful. He speaks what every immigrant who lives away from his homeland thinks. Bravo!!

This book is soulful and genuinely heartfelt. An emotional adventure without a dull moment from beginning to end. The writing is beautifully descriptive without over-doing it, and allows you to "see" Cuba, past and present, vividly through the author's eyes. The book is not long, but with every word used so skillfully, it need not be.

This book is definitely a favorite of mine in making my garden plans. The authors use their own Ontario perennial garden to illustrate and guide the reader through the planning and seasonal chores involved in a perennial garden. Although their garden style is more formal than mine, they cover choosing, planting and care of perennials in a way that is easily applied in my more casual cottage gardens. Each month has detailed cultivation and care information for many varieties that will bloom at that time, helping with the daunting task of planning so that a garden has continued bloom throughout the growing season. Attention to garden "bones," the structure that holds the garden, is demonstrated in their snow-covered garden photos. Even barren of life and buried in snow, their gardens are interesting to look at, giving us hope that we too can have lovely gardens year round.

I use this book like one of my little garden bibles.Easy format, and very informative.I like the fact that he gardens in Ontario, and writes about the same climate that I contend with!Definitely one of my favorite gardening writers!!

i originally borrowed this book from the library and wound up re-borrowing it so much that i decided to buy it (a rarity for me). since then, i keep it in my satchel which is always in reach. i am currently designing and installing a new garden, and many of the combinations i will use are from this book.

the author's comments and experiences are instructive, humorous and well written. indeed, i would not mind reading any writing he might produce.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! This book took me from color to design to planning borders so that something is in bloom all the time. The photographs provided identification of plants and I have found myself returning to them again and again to study the author's compositions. I also shared his views on gardening's place in one's life. Highly recommend.

Patrick Lima is without question my favorite garden writer. He is knowledgable and witty, and really offers comprehensive material for gardening with perennials in a zone 4 region. I can't recommend this book highly enough. John's photos are spectacular.