
Illustrations by Claudia Navarro
PlanetaLector, México, 2024
The Day of the Dead is a festivity filled with light and love. But this year is different because Paco can’t sleep. Will Juana and her friends be able to make him sleep so they can continue to prepare the celebration?
Lucas, a young magician, gets into a lot of trouble when Adamina and Balbina Pasparpina, who brag that they are excellent sorceresses, decide to enter his chicken coop and bewitch Otilia, Alfonsina, and Ursula, his beloved chickens.
The Day of the Dead unites families and is the perfect pretext to eat delicious food, dance, and sing. But this year is different: Paco has insomnia and it’s urgent that he sleeps so that the celebration can be prepared. Juana has an idea but she needs the participation of all.
“All living organisms are made of cells,” says Miss Lolita when she starts her class. During this adventure, Lucy and her friends will have an exciting experience. Accompany them while they discover the secret of what cells are made of as well a mystery they will solve in the Garden of Sciences.
“Because Mexico is in its markets,” as Pablo Neruda wrote, Judy and her son Ilán take us on a visually stunning journey through the colors, aromas and flowers of its markets.
Elephants love to swing on the delicate spider's web but the spider is quite unhappy. For the whole family, it's a fun story based on the traditional song and filled with elephants... and other creatures.
Eating bugs might sound unusual for children but people all over the world eat them because they are an important source of protein and because they are delicious. Simple recipes included. Happy munching!
¡Al rescate! is the story of Sapo, a solitary boy who is known by that name because of his initials: Segismundo Anacleto Pafnuncio Osnaya. Sapo and his dad recently arrived to live in a building. One afternoon, Sapo hears a dog barking and, when he looks outside of the bathroom window to the small, interior patio in a nearby building, he sees a puppy there. A few days later, when he sees that the pup is being mistreated, he sets out to do something about it. Will he be able to do it?
Winner of the III Certamen Internacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil FOEM 2018 of the Estado de México. Illustrations by Irma Bastida.
Mariana is nervous about her first day of school. Her papá gives her a little box and instructs her to open it when she absolutely, positively, really needs what’s inside. As the day goes by, her confidence slowly increases and she tries harder and harder not to open the box. But when an unkind classmate falls at recess, will she need the box… or will he?
When Día de Muertos, the Day of the Dead, draws near, Lupita and her tío Urbano welcome the monarch butterflies since he has told his niece that they are the souls of the dead arriving to visit their family members. However, this year, when the monarchs return from the north, things have changed…
Four friends ––Cose, Lucy, Cari and Sil––enter a cave in the park near their homes. ¿What adventures and dangers will they find in that world filled with mysterious creatures?
Digital format and soft cover.
Los colores de Dani is a fun, interactive adventure full of sensations, feelings, and adventures. In it, Dani, thanks to parental care, love, and support, dares to discover and show feelings. Un Kilo de Ayuda presents this innovative project with which kids and their families will share an entertaining story that will strengthen emotional ties and communication.
Digital, hard and soft cover available
Ilustrations by Israel Barrón
Published by Ediciones Castillo, 2019
Marco is excited about the news that he has just received: his aunt Neli, the most traveled and adventuresome member of the family, has invited him on a trip to five states of Mexico. Without realizing it, Marco will discover that Baja California, San Luis Potosí, Chiapas, Veracruz, and Mexico City are full of colonial legends about pirates, witches, and slaves that continue to be told to this day.