Chamarilero

La Paz is a happy, but noisy village. A little peace and quiet would make it just right. So the villagers elect the bossy Don Pepe as their mayor. Before long, singing of any kind is outlawed. Even the teakettle is afraid to whistle! But there is one noisy rooster who doesn't give two mangos about this mayor's silly rules. Instead, he does what roosters were born to do. La Paz es un pueblo alegre, pero ruidoso. Un poco de silencio no le vendría nada mal. Así que la gente del pueblo elige a don Pepe de alcalde para que resuelva el problema del ruido. Muy pronto, se prohíbe cantar en...

At the end of an especially bad day, Javier meets an old man who gives him a mirror to see the future. The mirror gets broken but Javier keeps a piece where he can see the future twenty four hours before. Rights sold to Korea, China and Mexico.

Computers, cell phones, I Pads -- isn’t that what living in this world today is all about? We stay connected to a world that changes every day, and almost every minute. What if we did not have those ways of communications, and had to use books instead? That is what came to mind as I thought of a scenario of a young girl having a dream in which all those ways of technology did not exist, and realizing what it would be like without her “Books on the Shelf.”

That Otto and Maya have found each other, lived happily ever after, and ate partridges is a nice and typical end to a tale. But what is not typical is how they found each other and how their dog became an astronaut. This dreamlike and surreal story highlights the connections that bind everyone together that are not visible at first sight—how dreams change reality and how reality can be absurd. Que Otto y Maya se encuentren, vivan felices y coman perdices es un bonito y típico final de cuento. Lo que no es nada típico es cómo se encontraron, y menos típico aún cómo su perro se...