El paraguas rojo

In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the Man in the Silver Mask is pitted against the terrible forces of evil—los rudos, the bad guys of lucha libre. They make the audience boo and hiss! In the end, though, the Man in the Silver Mask triumphs and, in the process, gains a lifelong fan.

A Leoncillo, Carrasquina y Glayito, tres de los gatos del Clan del Trueno, les ha llegado la hora de convertirse en aprendices de guerreros. Los tres cachorros han demostrado tener la astucia y la fuerza requeridas, y todo apunta a que se convertiran en protectores destacados de su grupo. Pero Leoncillo, Carrasquina y Glayito se veran envueltos en un oscuro secreto, y una antigua profecia augura la llegada de dias dificiles, en los que aumentaran el resentimiento y la animadversion contra los gatos no nacidos en los clanes.

Lola hardly ever wants to go to bed so her father decides to tell her a very long bedtime story, but it doesn't work. When her cousin Ricardete comes to play, they play so much that they end up falling asleep. When morning comes, Lola is so tired that she does not want to get up.

When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.