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She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

De Tres sombreros de copa se ha dicho, no sin razón, que es una obra que se adelantó a su tiempo. A partir de un trama muy original, un humor sorprendente y un extraordinario ingenio verbal, la pieza parece anticipar alguna de las características del teatro del absurdo que se impondría en toda Europa a mediados de la centuria. Las anotaciones aclaran los juegos lingüísticos, los destellos de ingenio y las referencias a sucesos de actualidad que Miguel Mihura integró genialmente en la que puede considerarse una de las mejores creaciones teatrales españolas de todo el siglo XX.

Playful illustrations by one of Mexico's most famous cartoonists match the whimsical text of a poem about what happens when a butterfly leaves its two pet fleas with a babysitter more interested in magic than watching its charges.

Todos tenemos una puerta con la que podemos acceder a nuestra imaginación... ¿Te atreves a participar en el mas maravilloso viaje a tu interior? This story, for children and adults alike, invites us to open the doors of our imagination and to discover the way it works. What lies there? Lexile Level: 700L