Si Quisqueya fuera un color (If Dominican Were a Color)

When the animals cannot decide which is the cleverest, they call on a boy called Curumín to help them settle the matter, and either the turtle or the monkey could be the winner.

Nicolás ahorra su dinero y trabaja mucho para comprar una jaula como regalo para su abuela quien está en una silla de ruedas. Resulta que la abuelita prefiere ver los pájaros libres.

There was once a wonderful book in which we could see a distant kingdom, where there was a fairy party that danced and heard beautiful music, they ate rolls and drank milk with honey on thimbles of pure gold, but ... Do you know where the fairies live?

Take an ordinary, everyday kind of errand, add one little girl with a big imagination and the result is not just a trip to the store but a whole world of possibilities. Shau-yu is simply on her way to buy eggs for dinner's fried rice, yet she takes the reader on a journey filled with adventure and imaginings. Taiwan's traditional stores may be foreign to American readers, but Shau-yu's afternoon walk shows us all that imagination is universal.