Mi gorrita

After helping her grandfather plant squash, onions, carrots, cabbage, and other vegetables that her mother uses in soups and salsas, seven-year-old Marisol plants sunflower seeds in her neighbors' yards, and weeks later, everyone gets to enjoy the fruitsof Marisol's labor.

While a mighty lion sleeps, a small mouse runs up its back and gets tangled in its mane. The lion is angry. No one should disturb the king of the beasts! The lion says that it will eat the mouse. But the mouse pleads for its life. The mouse claims that one day it may be able to save the life of the lion. The lion laughs at that. How could a tiny mouse save a mighty lion? But the lion decides to free the mouse anyway. Later, the lion is caught in a hunter's net. The lion cannot escape. Can the mouse save the lion from the hunter's trap?

A Spanish language retelling of the familiar folktale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears follows Goldilocks as she stumbles on to an empty cabin in the woods and makes herself at home, until the bear family, returning home, find her asleep in Baby Bear's bed.

“Margarita siempre se había sentido atraída por el mar, por lo profundo de sus abismos, por su inmensidad...”. Nos encontramos aquí con una serie de relatos breves que Esperanza García Mancheño ha tenido la gentileza de componer para nosotros deleitándonos con pequeñas historias entrañables del ayer y del presente más actual.