Our calendar already announces it. The revelry on the street confirms it: we are in the month of July and the children already have vacations. A well-deserved rest period but that does not always coincide with that of the parents … and more in a context as particular as the one we are experiencing in recent months.

So if during the confinement you have already offered the children of the house all the options available and for entertainment, if you have already made your own puppet theater at home, if you no longer have a free space at home to add no more plasticine doll …

We bring you a selection of books that will have the kids super entertaining without forgetting the training part. Because we all know how complicated it is to find enjoyable pedagogical alternatives so that children do not fight boredom at the stroke of a knife. And because it is very important that they do not forget what they learned during the course, even if it is learning in more playful ways.

That is why we bring you a selection of 7 books so that your children do not get bored this summer while they develop their creativity, curiosity and manual skills. Do we take paper and pencil? 😉

1) Destroy this newspaper. Now in full color

The first is already a classic among books for the little ones: Tear this journal apart. Now in full color, a new series publication Shred this diary which has been so successful.

A book prepared to have no limits. Through challenges, activities will be proposed for them to use the painting freely, tear pages or glue colored papers without stopping.

An incredible incentive for children to feel comfortable with their creativity. Here, when you paint, you can get out of line. And the veterans of the collection do not have to suffer, because there are completely new activities proposals to the previous ones. For newcomers, this is a magnificent gateway to the world of Keri Smith, to get carried away … and, why not, also destroy!

Recommended for all ages.

2) Tito Bear. Pirate adventure

The Tito Bear is not going to be a second still this summer, surely just like your children.

The cute and funny character created by Benji Davies Return to the fray with a new adventure that this time will take you to explore the seas and live many anecdotes along the way.

What kind of adventures? Well, your children will have to pull tabs and unfold all the animations to discover it! Did we get on the pirate ship of the Tito Bear? 🙃

Recommended from 1 year.

3) Escape book. Trapped … inside my house!

In third place on this list we bring you the most morrocotudo mystery that only the most superratónico readers will be able to solve. 😎

Indeed, our Geronimo Stilton He's in trouble again and will need a little help to get out of it. What's wrong with him? He tells us himself:

How is it possible?! Chillííí! In my absence, Professor Voltio has installed a special security system and I am now locked inside my own home. Do you want to help me out? We have a map and many tracks … It will be an adventure that will make your whiskers vibrate!

Recommended from 7 years.

4) The adventures of Dani and Evan. The secret of the dinosaurs

This list could not miss the first book from the dinosaur channel that triumphs on YouTube! The Adventures of Dani and Evan.

Our protagonists will spend a weekend in an excavation with Professor Bizcoché. Can there be something more exciting? You are right! Dani and Evan will discover the dinosaur sanctuary, a place full of incredible creatures, magnificent and… dangerous!

Will Dani, Evan and Professor Bizcoché be able to return? A Jurassic adventure that will not let your children detach from the book for a second!

From 5 years.

5) Anna Kadabra. The Full Moon Club

Pedro Mañas It brings us a very interesting approach: what if witches were the good guys in the story?

Anna Kadabra and her magical Full Moon Club are here to teach our children that there is a different way of seeing things!

Anna is furious that she has to leave her old house, her school, and her city. He moves with his parents to Moonville, an old-fashioned town in the middle of the woods. To top it all off, the place is full of legends and secrets. Who, for example, is that mysterious cat that follows her everywhere? Could it be a witch's cat? One moment … what if the witch was her ?!

From 7 years old.

6) 101 hobbies for little travelers

And we come to the sixth proposal from the hand of Moira Butterfield.

101 hobbies for little travelers It is a manual for the little ones to better support the trips, although the trips are shorter in this special summer. Because, if we are parents, we already know that it does not take more than five minutes with the kids on board for the situation to get out of control. 😅

The pages of this book offer us many activities that will make any trip more fun and enjoyable: creating a secret code, playing bingo, designing clothes, learning magic tricks … How many can you complete before reaching your destination?

From 7 years old.

7) 100 Montessori activities

Finally, a book that includes proposals from one of the so-called ‘alternative pedagogies’. 100 Montessori activities, a publication that tries to awaken children's curiosity, creativity and ingenuity through their relationship with the environment.

This is an opportunity for them to learn to take care of themselves and everything around them. And if you are scared of new pedagogical methods that may seem a bit 'radical' but still want to explore other options, it is the perfect book to introduce yourself little by little.

For parents with children of any age.

With these 7 suggestions you will see that it is very possible to keep your children active and learning new skills without giving up the fun of the summer. And if you have been wanting more, Our selection of holiday notebooks awaits you!

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Next October 27 the MANGA MANIA returns !!. Planeta Cómic reissues at an unbeatable price the numbers one of 15 of the main shônen, seinen and kodomo series created in Japan. This year they join the team My Hero Academia, Dragon Quest VI and Boruto.

1. MY HERO ACADEMY € 1 to € 1.95
2. DRAGON BALL 1 at € 1.95
3. DRAC BALL 1 to € 1.95
4. BORUTO € 1 to € 1.95
5. ONE PIECE 1 to € 1.95
6. MAGI 1 to € 1.95
7. DRAGON QUEST VI € 1 to € 1.95
8. NARUTO 1 to € 1.95
9. NARUTO CATALÁN 1 to € 1.95
10. SAINT SEIYA 1 to € 2.95
11. PARASYTE 1 to € 2.95
12. VINLAND SAGA 1 to € 2.95
13. EL DULCE HOGAR DE CHI 1 to € 2.95
14. DETECTIVE CONAN 1 to € 2.95
15. DR.SLUMP 1 to € 2.95

To consider:

* Limited reissue without dust jackets.

* Only for number 1.

* Limited print run while supplies last.

We come from a spring that has been more particular than any, surely, and we have a summer ahead that we do not know very well how it will be. What we do know is that we will take advantage of it to rest, to enjoy, to travel near or far but having a good time together with ours. To see friends. To make plans. And a plan that cannot be missed in our summer is books. Because they have always been and will be our refuge.

So if you want to disconnect this summer and immerse yourself in the most exciting readings, prepare yourself a cool drink and decide which of these books you are going to start reading first. 🍉📚🍦 # ReadYourSummer

one. ANDl Pandora's message

Whenever a dogma falls, a new world is born. Do you want to know the new world of Javier Sierra?

On the day Arys turned eighteen she received this strange letter. It came to him from Athens wrapped in brown paper with the urge that he should read it immediately. Written in exceptional circumstances, her aunt evokes the last trip they made together in southern Europe and confides in her a secret that she has been keeping for a long time: that ancient myths hide the key to understanding the origin of life, diseases and even our future.

Based on research by leading scientists and Nobel laureates, Javier Sierra has written a dazzling, lucid fable that will expand our view of the issues that are truly meant to upset the balance of our civilization.

2. The naked life

He Azorín Novel Prize 2020 is the Gala trip to the secrets of his family. An emotional and surprising journey in which she will end up being a different person than the one she started.

A phone call changed everything. When Gala begins the trip to say goodbye to her grandmother Rosario, she cannot imagine that she will soon discover that nothing is what she seems in her family: despite appearances, or precisely because of them, everyone has a public life that shows the world, a life private reserved for a few and a secret life that remains hidden for all. Little by little, Gala will uncover the different layers that surround her parents, her brother Mauro and her aunt Julia. And at the top of so many discoveries you will find what you always sought and resisted: love without conditions.

Because we were all someone's secret … Monica Carrillo It brings us a delicious novel where reality will unfold before the reader's eyes.

3. A thousand forbidden kisses

A casual encounter, a passion that is reborn, an unspeakable sin. This is what it gives us Sonsoles Ónega in your new book. You want to know more?

Costanza and Mauro had spent half their lives waiting until an unforeseen meeting on Madrid's Gran Vía once again united their destinations. Costanza, recently separated from her husband, a lawyer in a prestigious office, had in her hands the defense of an important banker, a circumstance that absorbed her every hour of the day. Mauro, Father Mauro, had just returned from Rome to undertake a job commissioned by the Archbishopric of Madrid.

Despite their circumstances and with all the headwinds, the love story that Costanza and Mauro lived twenty years ago is resurrected. Now they must decide between letting themselves be carried away by their feelings or resigning themselves to their contradictions. After the success of After Love, work with which the author obtained the Fernando Lara novel Prize and the recognition of critics and readers, Sonsoles Ónega presents us with a magnificent novel of passions and internal struggles, an exciting novel, full of sensitivity and contrasts,

4. Love was enough

We continue with this list of essentials for a great summer with the new work of Máximo Huerta, a novel that gives us a great life lesson and a jolt in our readers hearts.

Icarus lives with resignation the decline of his parents' marriage, his mother's anguish about the future they will have to face alone, their father's confusion, the restlessness of the whole family. But, while the child awakens to sexuality thanks to the complicity of a schoolmate, one day he also discovers with amazement that he has a gift: he is capable of flying.

This makes him a person admired by his neighbors, but also someone different. In the midst of his revolts, his parents want to protect him, but all he needs is understanding, acceptance and love to complete his emotional education and face the narrow passageway that leads us from adolescence to maturity.

In Love was enough Huerta focuses on the only way of salvation in the face of disagreements, in the face of differences: love. Don't miss out on this exciting read.

5. The heart with which I live

José María Pérez Peridis He is the winner of the 2020 Spring Novel Prize. And the novel that has earned him this recognition brings to the table great themes such as the power of affection, the strength of dignity, the need for sincere reconciliation. Ready to go into an exciting work?

In the pilgrimage of the Carmen day in the town of Paredes Rubias, Esperanza meets Lucas, recently graduated in medicine and wanting to make a place for himself in the world. They have all their lives ahead and the conviction that they are called to be the owners of their destiny.

Two days after that dance, war breaks out violently in the town, sowing destruction and hatred among its people. The families of the two youths are on opposing sides and Gabriel, Lucas's brother, is taken prisoner and sentenced to death. In the midst of this misfortune, a gesture as brave as it is unexpected will have transcendental value.

Perdisi brings us a story that reminds us that, above ideologies, there are always people and that, at decisive moments, we can be capable of the best.

6. Frankenstein's mother

The exciting story of a woman and a man who chose to resist in the most difficult times. The most intense and emotional novel in the Episodes of Endless War cycle.

In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returned to Spain to work in the Ciempozuelos women's asylum. After going into exile in 1939, he has lived for fifteen years in Switzerland, hosted by the family of Dr. Goldstein.

In Ciempozuelos Germán he meets up with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid parricide, very intelligent, who fascinated him at thirteen years old, and he meets a nursing assistant, María Castejón, whom Doña taught to read and write when she was a child. Germán, attracted to María, does not understand her rejection, and suspects that his life hides many secrets. The reader will discover her modest origin as a granddaughter of the asylum gardener, her years as a maid in Madrid, her unfortunate love story, as well as the reasons why Germán has returned to Spain. Twin souls who want to flee from their respective pasts

The signature of Almudena Grandes We already have a great novel and a book that we don't want to take our eyes off for hours.

7. Open heart

We bring you the rise and fall of great passion, the fierce love of two people who seemed to conspire against a serene life.

Based on an episode that occurred in Madrid in 1939, Elvira Lindo He tells us about the passionate and stormy relationship of his parents, and how his excessive personality and her weak heart marked the pulse of the life of the whole family.

Open heart It is a novel that covers our country throughout a century of great changes and contains a tribute to a generation, that of those who remained in Spain in the immediate postwar period, those who, without complaint or regret, concentrated on surviving. Freedom, lucidity and wisdom are concentrated in a book that reflects the lights and shadows of our past.

8. Who are you?

This attractive cover hides a romantic thriller that shows us how fear can prevent us from achieving what we want, what we need or what we dream of. Will you dare win the game? Megan Maxwell He is the one who launches this challenge so we would not think about it for a second. 😉

We introduce you to Martina. She is a teacher and resists having to communicate with people through a screen, something that is becoming very fashionable in Spain in the nineties. Encouraged by some friends, Martina finally enters this new world of chats, friends, laughter, endless nights of fun. Everything becomes idyllic when a person from that digital world, whom he has never seen or known, catches his attention. Her mere presence through the screen attracts her more and more …

However, suddenly someone persecutes and harasses her, and our protagonist begins to be afraid, especially because she has no way of finding out if that threat belongs to real or virtual life. Do not miss this new Megan Maxwell novel with which, in addition to enjoying a beautiful love story, you can feel Martina's fear and courage.

9. And Julia challenged the gods

We continue our list of essentials with Santiago Posteguillo. The winner of the Planeta Prize brings us the biology of a fascinating woman who closes with this volume. If the first installment of this saga was set in 192 AD, when several men fought for the empire, but Julia Domna had something more ambitious in mind: founding a dynasty.

In this second part we will discover a Julia Domna with new challenges. Staying high is much more difficult than reaching. Julia is at the height of her power, but betrayal and family division threaten to spoil everything. To make matters worse, the doctor Galen diagnosed him what the Romans called Cancer. Meanwhile her children star in a brutal confrontation. In the midst of physical and moral pain, the august will cling to a love story stronger than death.

The game for control of the empire continues to bring us to the end of this wonderful saga.

10. The heir

And we come to the end of our journey towards disconnection with the novel by Rafael Tarradas Bultó.

Barcelona, ​​San Sebastián, Madrid, Gijón or Teruel are the settings for a fascinating story of love, courage, loyalty and betrayal, based on real events, which reveals how in a world where the fight for survival brings out the worst in being human… love is a powerful force capable of making us overcome the greatest adversities. A precious message for these difficult times. Also, when you have reached the end of The heir, the Sagniers and the Marquis will already be part of your family. Do you want to meet them?

And if your pile of books is eaten fleetingly … don't worry because your summer is not going to be orphaned by books. Here you will find a selection of readings that will sweeten the summer and that you will remember with nostalgia when it is your turn to return to the routine. 🙈😊

# ReadYourSummer

We know that summer is the golden season, the time with which we daydream the rest of the year imagining a scenario of sun and holidays.

And although things are somewhat different this year … we still have a world of possibilities. Beach? Montana? Timeless walks that end on the terrace with friends? Family plan? Enjoy some time alone and practice those hobbies for which we do not usually have time?

Needless to say, Our favorite hobby is books! So this summer we plan to enjoy reading alone or in company, chatting with friends about what that character in the book we are reading at the same time has just done … and the infinite places where books allow us to travel. Are you coming with us?

These are the 10 books that will make you travel this summer without the need to pack. 😉

one. Love was enough

You are lying in a hammock and there is no way to protect yourself from the sun that dazzles you. Well, hey, it will seem like a somewhat rudimentary solution, but a good book can protect you from the sun.

And if that book is Love was enough of Máximo Huerta, In addition to a parasol, it will keep you on your toes until dusk. This novel tells us the story of Icarus, who lives with resignation the decline of his parents' marriage, his mother's anguish for the future they will have to face alone, their father's confusion, the restlessness of the whole family. But, while the child awakens to sexuality thanks to the complicity of a schoolmate, one day he also discovers with amazement that he has a gift … he can fly. A novel that gives us a great life lesson. A jolt in our readers hearts.

two. The north face of the heart

Holidays are the time to return to our villages, to visit our family, to return to our origins. And just that is what brings us Dolores Redondo with The north face of the heart.

«When Amaia Salazar was twelve she was lost in the forest for sixteen hours. It was early morning when they found her thirty kilometers north of the place where she had lost track. Faded in the heavy rain, the clothes blackened and charred like that of a medieval witch rescued from a bonfire, and, in contrast, the white, clean and icy skin as if it had just emerged from the ice. ”

In August 2005, long before the crimes that shook the Baztan Valley, a young twenty-five-year-old Amaia Salazar, Deputy Provincial Police Officer, participates in an exchange course for Europol police officers at the FBI Academy in the Estuados United: they will study the real case of a serial killer who acts during great catastrophes, "the composer".

To get here, sometimes you have to go back to the beginning. Can you think of a better plan for the summer?

3. Felix. A man on earth

And if one thing we like about vacations is that they allow us to get away from the city and routine and get closer to nature.

If you are one of those who love the outdoors you cannot miss Felix. A man on earth, the book where the daughter of the most important naturalist in Spain, Odile de la Fuente, brings us closer to his figure and his legacy.

Ten chapters divided by thematic areas with texts by Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente and the transcription of his main radio and television interventions. A final chapter with the testimony of personalities from all areas that will gloss his figure: Andreu Buenafuente, Rosa Montero, Jesús Calleja, or Juan Luis Arsuaga.

In this book you will find an illustrated compendium of the thinking of man that aroused the environmental awareness of an entire country.

Four. Spain by bike

And if there is a group that eagerly awaits the arrival of good weather … it is that of lovers of two wheels. We will say nothing more than this: 101 routes through Spain to organize a vacation on two wheels.

With such a suggestive proposal, it will not matter if the phase we are in allows us to travel more or less kilometers. Why Sergio Fernández Tolosa He has compiled routes of all kinds so that this summer there are no excuses, let's adjust the saddle and start pedaling. These 101 cycling routes invite you to get to know the world in a different way, on a means of transport that every day convinces more travelers and savoring freedom, allowing yourself to be pampered by the outdoors and discovering landscapes, towns and sights that move away from motorways. and conventional transport. So to read and plan the routes that we will do this summer. 😉

5. While the summer lasts

The title already says everything. And he invites us to read in the hammock with a cool drink. Do you want to know what you will find behind this summer cover?

Vera is a 24-year-old girl who lives in the center of Madrid with her two friends, Nuria and Zoe. Despite being opposite poles, they share almost everything with them. The three work in an artist representation office, where they will have to see more than once with their unbearable boss and with one of the agency's most sought-after representatives.

Vera has always lived love as an adventure that can have very serious consequences, that's why she has never allowed herself to be carried away. Until she does it with Leo… But will Leo really be the right one for her? Let yourself be surprised by a romantic novel narrated by a not so romantic girl, a reflection of the current society in which our protagonist is going to claim her place.

6. Santa Manuela Trilogy

You have walked all day, seen a thousand things and you are no longer with your soul. Shall we sit down to devour a delicious trilogy?

Away from the chaos of the city and surrounded by more than peculiar neighbors, the gang of Santa Manuela, a small Pyrenean town with stone houses and slate roofs, knows what is truly important: love, friendship and unconditional care. to yours. Welcome to Santa Manuela!

Fran, Sofia, Lucho, Cosme or Alicia are its inhabitants. They can shout, fight or say truths to the face as fists … at the end of the day it does not matter. In the face of any quarrel or adversity, whether in the form of a flood, a breakdown or a group crisis, they only know one way to resolve it: together. Because everyone was born and raised in Santa Manuela. Also we bring you the trilogy of Sylvia Herrero in case format, so you don't stop reading or looking for the next book. 😜

7. The island house

Is there anything more summery than a house on an island, with a lake and a lot of peace? Yes, the novel by Sarah Blake.

A mansion on an island. A moving family saga. The fate of a family marked by impossible love and silenced secrets … If you like Anne Jacobs and Kate Morton, you cannot miss this novel!

Moving through three generations, The island house it is a fascinating tale of hidden secrets, irreparable decisions, and enduring love stories. And he asks us a question: can our family past make all of our life decisions? Find out.

8. Hidden port

There are some things that you will not be able to get rid of this summer: the anti-mosquito lotion, a cold drink, the fan … and Hidden port of Maria Oruña!

Oliver, a young Londoner with a peculiar family situation and a sad loss behind him, inherits a colonial house, Villa Marina, on the beach in the small town of Suances, in Cantabria. During the remodeling work, the walled corpse of a baby is discovered in the basement, accompanied by an object that is completely anachronistic. After this discovery, various murders in different cities of Cantabria begin to follow one another vertiginously.

Don't miss the primera delivery of the series set in Cantabria The books of Puerto Escondido, which has consecrated its author as the new voice of the Spanish crime novel. In addition, this edition of Thrillermania is super portable so that you can follow the investigation of Suances wherever the holidays take you.

9. Angels and Demons

If summer allows us one thing, it is to discover small charming places, like that typical parish with spectacular views in an isolated mountain.

If you want to see the parishes differently, you cannot miss Dan Brown.

Angels and Demons, the first adventure of the charismatic and unforgettable Robert Langdon, is an addictive and fast-paced thriller about the eternal conflict between science and religion. This fight turns into a real war that will put all humanity in check, who will have to fight until the last minute to avoid a great disaster. Because not everything has to be calm and calm during the summer.

10. We on the moon

And if summer has something, it is that it passes us in the blink of an eye. And yet there is nothing more eternal than a fleeting encounter. Discover it together with Alice Kellen and his novel We on the moon.

When Rhys and Ginger meet on the streets of Paris, they do not imagine that their lives will be united forever despite the distance and that they could not be more different.

She lives in London and sometimes feels so lost that she has forgotten even her own dreams. He is unable to stay still anywhere and thinks he knows who he is. And every night their friendship grows between e-mails full of confidences, doubts and concerns.

But what happens when the passage of time tests your relationship? Is it possible to hang on the moon with another person without putting your heart at risk? Put a finishing touch to summer with this story about love, destiny and self-search.

So go through all these books and load up on the sensations without having to leave the air conditioning in your house or fight to see how many clothes fit in your suitcase. # ReadElVerano and enjoy traveling to a thousand and one universes. And if you want more, don't miss out on this emergency selection for heavy readers. 😜🍦📚