Cómo Encontrar Una Criatura Fantástica

In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the Man in the Silver Mask is pitted against the terrible forces of evil—los rudos, the bad guys of lucha libre. They make the audience boo and hiss! In the end, though, the Man in the Silver Mask triumphs and, in the process, gains a lifelong fan.

All the children at school are making their superheroes' albums, and at recess, they exchange their duplicate stamps. By doing some cheating, Santiago is the first in completing his collection and turns it in for a fabulous prize. That night, however, Santiago meets one those superheroes, Hatsune, who along with his fox, Atzaru, will teach Santiago a valuable lesson in honesty.

With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that don Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the helphe needs.

La profecía lo anunció: llegará una Reina de la Sangre para destruir el mundo, y una Reina del Sol para reconstruirlo. No se sabe cuándo, no se sabe quién. Pero sucederá. En dos épocas diferentes y reinos separados, las vidas de Rielle y Eliana están vinculadas por lazos aún más poderosos que la magia. Una de ellas es la Reina de la Sangre; la otra, la Reina del Sol: ambas están destinadas a unir el cielo y la tierra, las almas celestiales y los humanos. Pero el camino que tendrán que transitar es duro, repleto de sacrificios y de pruebas inclementes para estas reinas que, al fin...