Mi Corazón y Otros Agujeros Negros / My Heart and Other Black Holes

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 girl likes a boy, but the boy doesn t seem to know she exists. What to do? Her friends give her some advice: remove your pigtails, your glasses, your costume wings, your bird hat, and try to be talkative. The boy finally pays attention to her, but after removing so many things, even the birds are gone from her head. The girl realizes that she is no longer herself, so decides to get back everything that makes her, her."

In a favorite fairy tale, Beauty saves her father's life by agreeing to live with the Beast in a huge, lonely castle far away from home, and eventually falls in love with the Beast, who transforms into a loving prince.

El niño protagonista de esta historia se lamenta porque ha de pasar unas vacaciones con su abuelo.¿Qué tiene él en común con un anciano? Su primer día juntos, el abuelo le propone hacer un pastel de manzana. Para ello deberán reunir todos los ingredientes necesarios y, sobre todo, tener paciencia. Gracias a su abuelo el niño descubrirá que, a pesar de lo que creía, lo más importante de hacer un pastel de manzana no es comerlo, lo fundamental es hacerlo.