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A traveler wrapped in a cloak walks down a lonely road. The north wind and the sun watch from above the traveler. They wonder which of them is more powerful than the other. The wind and sun make a bet to see who can get the traveler to remove the cloak. They both try their best. The wind blows with a truly powerful force. But what can the sun do? Can it win the bet by being the first to make the traveler remove the cloak?

Una niña que sueña. Una abuela que la espera más allá del tiempo. Subida en un barquito de papel, al cuidado de la luna, una niña se aventura en sus sueños. En la travesía, el océano es un acompañante y sobre su superficie de agua salada, las palabras cantan con una sonoridad especial. En una isla, un mandarino invita a nuestra navegante a acercarse a la orilla. Allí hay una fiesta, abrazos, regalos y una abuela, su abuela, que hornea delicias. Prosa y verso para hablar de amor familiar. Una obra imborrable de la prolífica escritora uruguaya Mercedes Calvo.

Ancient Night combines many short stories from the oral tradition, like the one of the bunny and the possum, as well as the invented rivalry between the two that serves to tell the story of what happens at night behind the maize: the adventures of a hard-working bunny and an audacious possum that come and go through the field, making the moon change its appearance and the night transform into day. This silent album is inspired in the complex and monumental Middle American thinking, which conceives the origin of things in a dual way; due to this, the also illustrator of The well of the mice...

Tommy es un niño enfermizo y triste que un día conoce a un misterioso y mágico ser que lo llevará a vivir asombrosas aventuras en un mundo maravilloso y lleno de criaturas fantásticas en este libro del que a buen seguro disfrutarán grandes y pequeños.