¡Me Gusta Cómo Soy! / I Like Myself!

Seven different adventures accompanied by lovely and often humorous color drawings explore the workings of a farm and introduce the various animals that live there.

Cecilia and Miguel are best friends, and have been since the third grade when he gave her bunny ears in the class picture. Their life-long friendship is recorded in warm recollections of bike races and soccer games, beach time and fishing from the pier. Their closeness endures separation, "even when he drove north to college and she drove west." The relationship evolves and grows, but remains strong even when ... he dropped the ring and she found it inside her flan ... he set up one crib and she told him they need two ... the twins climb into their bed and beg for another story. In this...

The chicken Armando is convinced that the sky is falling, and he decide to go to tell the king. In the path he meet with other courtyard birds, when they hear the bad news decide to go with the chicken. In the end, they will be a great dinner for the family fox.

Perro Viejo was taken away from his mother at birth and has known no other life than that of servitude on a sugar plantation. His name, which means "Old Dog," was given to him by the plantation master because, like the bloodhounds that chased fugitive slaves, Perro Viejo is always searching for the scent of his long lost mother. The only thing that keeps him alive is the memory of Asuncion, a beautiful girl he once met while washing his master's horses at a river. Never to see her again, he closes his heart to all forms of love. Nearing the end of his life, Perro Viejo meets Beira, an old...