Kuku na Mwewe - El aguila y la gallina (Kuku and Mwewe - A Swahili Folktale)

A moving bilingual ode to the unshakeable bond between a parent and child in the tradition of Runaway Bunny and The Wonderful Things You Will Be. If I were a sheep, you would be a lamb. If I were a bear, you would be a cub. As a mother holds her toddler, they muse over the way their love would translate if they were different animals. But no matter how they change, they will always be “us.” This bilingual story is a timeless ode to the unshakable bond between parent and child. Si yo fuera una oveja, tú serías un cordero. Si yo fuera una osa, tú serías un osenzo. Con su niño en...

An elephant suddenly finds himself burrowed inside the den of a leopard. Terrified, he asks for help. The leopard, following an absurd logic, teaches him how to escape from the den. Then, to the leopard's horror, he finds himself immersed in the deep sea. Here begins the chain of unexpected and desperate situations where we find many animals acting as "fish out of water." The animals continually help one another in these unfamiliar environments by applying common sense. An illustrated story with artistic collages, this book features color in a vivid new way.

Criaturas fantásticas y extrañas pueblan estos cuentos. Muchos se preguntarán si viven realmente. Van a vivir siempre que haya alguien capaz de imaginarlas.

Those nasty birds come and sit on the kangaroo's windowsill every morning and make such a racket that he can't sleep. The poor kangaroo is going crazy, and he doesn't know what to do. Since he doesn't really understand why birds are so rude, he decides to teach them a lesson by showing them that thay're not the only animals who can fly.