Treinta y tres días antes de conocerte

Es el cumpleaños de Caracol y sus amigos le llevan cada uno un regalo. A Caracol le parecen un poco extraños. Para qué quiere él unos clavos o unas castañas? Pero sus amigos le conocen mejor de lo que él creía, porque todos esos regalos juntos ¡pueden cumplir su deseo!

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

Carabola es el personaje de este cuento, un payaso que vive en una gran ciudad y que nos invita a seguirlo en sus aventuras. A Carabola le gustan los insectos y las flores; también le gusta visitar a sus amigos, ir al mercado y mirar las estrellas. La autora y Carabola se conocieron en una fiesta muy peculiar y de inmediato se hicieron grandes amigos.

The Three Kings were enjoying the ongoing holiday revelry in Puerto Rico, feasting and leaving presents. Melchior overeats and falls asleep, taking the star of Bethlehem with him. His disappearance and recovery started the January tradition of Melchior's Feast, still celebrated in some parts of the Puerto Rican countryside.