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After a long sleep, they wake up and are curious about what lies below in the city. They jump out of the clouds, begin to fall: one, two, three... What a lot of drops in the city! allows us to capture an instant in the life of a series of affectionate and delicate characters, through the shower of a cloud burst, that could well be in summer.

Dreaming on moonlit nights, brings good luck. You can ask for three wishes”, proclaimed the mysterious piece of paper that fell down the chimney, while the two old people spent their time toasting a crust of bread. Gold teeth, elegant clothes, a diamond palace… What a difficult choice…! So the old woman thought that with a sausage sandwich, she would be able to think better. Just then… sass!, the sausage appeared. She had used up her first wish! How many dreams end in three wishes? This tale, adapted from the Portuguese oral tradition, speaks to us about the power of dreams, of luck that appears and disappears whimsically before our very eyes and of how affection and the desire to continue dreaming bring us happiness.

After looking all over the village, Miguel found his nanny goat on a roof top. “Does she think she’s a weather vane? Does she think she’s a chimney? Perhaps a cat? Miguel asked himself. With the help of a few flowers, a story book and a handfull of salt (nanny goats like salt more than children like ice cream), the silly nanny goat went back to where it belonged. The writer tells us, remembering his childhood, that in the village there were two or three nanny goats to a house. Early in the morning, when the children were on their way to school they took their goats and left them with the goatherd in the square. The goatherd went into the hills and the children went to school. At the end of the day the children collected their nanny goats -although more than one went to the pen. That way, the nanny goat went back home with its belly full, ready to give milk, and the children with their heads full of what they had learnt at school. The silly nanny goat -or wise nanny goat- stems from the observation and knowledge of the countryside, constituting an indirect formula for observing and understanding the realistic and fantastic side of things.

When Veronica plays the violin, everyone cries at the beauty of his music. A day, tired of seeing people cry, he decides to go to the jungle. There, along with wild animals, your life will change.

Fat is beauty!, her mother said; but Petra didn’t like the image in the mirror. She wanted to be tall, thin and elegant, and she decided to move heaven and earth in order to get it… till she met Fortunato… Petra is a little elephant who rejects her fatness and dreams of being physically different. After using up all her expectations with frustrated intents of slimming through methods that didn’t adapt to her species, and full of illusion of finding a solution to what she considers a problem, Petra sets out on a trip which leads to a special meeting, amusing adventures and, above all, makes her aware of herself, to accept her natural condition and not to have a distorted perception of fatness.

La maman de Justin était tellement fâchée que de la fumée commença à sortir de sa bouche comme si c’était un dragon. En un instant, son nez se transforma en un bec et son oreille gauche en une anse. Finalement, Justin ramassa du sol une théière qui ressemblait beaucoup à sa maman. Très effrayé, l’enfant alla chez sa voisine, chez la grand-mère Lubi, l’oncle Jules, l’ami Léon, le bibliothécaire et monsieur Alfred, mais personne n’avait la solution... Un récit enlevé, frais et plein d’humour qui accroche le lecteur dès la première page. Du quotidien, il nous transporte, à un monde de fantaisie, inattendu et plein de rythme, où tout est possible. Une histoire pour transmettre aux enfants le plaisir de lire, mais surtout pour ceux qui croient que l’imagination est l’outil le plus puissant que nous avons pour apprendre de la réalité.

A grey elephant with purple beauty spots, who lives in the forest, falls in love with a black ant with a wasp’s waist. His love is matched, but to be together they have a long road ahead of them. The ant invites the elephant to follow her and the elephant doesn’t give it a second thought. In for a penny, in for a pound, the elephant travels along the road flanked by trees, goes to the bottom of a sewing box, swims inside a bottle of water… After having come so far, the elephant and the ant meet up and enjoy their love together, a love with a wasp’s waist and purple beauty spots… that doesn’t have anything strange about it!

A story favouring expressing feelings making the most of what, at the beginning, could seem like a limitation or a barrier in every day life.

The main characters, as in most fables, are animals. In this case, Mary Fox and John Cat, both mischievous, arrive at the palace gates one fine day asking for food. That’s where the miser John Rat lives and who doesn’t want to give them anything, and so they offer to prepare him a prodigious soup, Nothing in the Soup.

A cat, chased by a dog, runs to the top of a very tall tree and after can’t get down. Those that pass by go up the tree with the idea of helping; but things start to get more and more complicated and the solidarity of the firemen, neighbours and family turns into a problem for the tree, that can’t support so much weight.