El mundo de los Ilus

The seven brothers are precursors to the modern comic book super heroes that are so popular. Each has an unusual skill. The first has remarkable hearing. The second can see over vast distances. The third has unusual strength. The fourth has bones of iron. The fifth has legs that can grow as long and thick as tree trunks. The sixth brother can never be too hot. The seventh brother can cry such large tears that they can drown an entire village. Much effort goes into keeping him happy. The key to the story is that they look alike. The Seven Chinese Brothers is for children who are past the time...

With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that don Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the helphe needs.

Portraying the secret life of various everyday objects, their feelings, and their concerns, this illustrated work makes for a fun and fascinating read. The whimsical illustrations detail things that nobody knows: that library cows graze on the words inside books, that library books read each other when no one is looking, and that a cat falls in love with a refrigerator not because of how it looks, but because of the milk inside.

Sofía, la protagonista, es una estudiante de quinto básico que vive en un amoroso ambiente hogareño. La contraparte es el progresivo padecimiento sicológico y físico en el colegio, cuando se transforma en la “víctima elegida” de un pequeño grupo de “matones”.