AXO
Twelve Under the Root
Every morning there are fewer eggs under the root that Axo remembers as the safest place in the canal. Xochi has a footprint, a suspect who talks too much and a shiny thing she chose not to show.
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Stories to read aloud
UC are our family's initials. This is the shelf where we keep what we write and what we record.
Each Guardian has an adventure. You can read them on screen, on paper or, even better, aloud and taking turns. They are for readers aged 10 and up, and for any adult who wants to listen.
Stories taste better when they are read aloud. Mika prefers it when someone reads to her. You have found 0 of 8 paw prints.
Stories of the Guardians
Fifteen illustrated adventures
BALAM
The Broken Trail
Balam remembers the trail. Ek thinks he can cross it in a single leap. A highway is about to show them that they are both wrong.
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CORAL
Who Makes the Sand
Coral knows how to grind stone. What she does not know is when to stop trying. Since Grandpa lost his color, no bite ever seems enough to her.
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LUMA
The Voice from the Other Side
Brasa is just beginning to live without walls when a voice comes from the other side of the river. It will take three trees, a voice that stumbles and someone willing to answer.
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VITA · the tenth Guardian
The Edge of Silence
Nita is learning to see with her ears. The rock answers her. The fish answers her. But in front of her hangs something that barely answers at all.
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ÁMBAR
Those Who Return
With her grandmother, Erandi places a candle for each name and asks if those who are gone really come back. That autumn, the sky over Michoacán fills with orange wings that crossed a continent.
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BALEY · Mexican wolf
New Blood
Her mother does not go with her as far as the stream: the young wolf sets out alone to find her own way, far away, through mountains cut by roads. A journey to carry new blood to where it is needed. The young wolf in the story is named Bruna.
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CIMA
The One No One Sees
Beto looks at the eagle on his coin without seeing the real shadow that has just crossed the yard. Learning to watch what flies high changes the way he sees the plains—and himself.
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INIA
The Enchanted One
Noé was always told that under the river there is a city of enchanted ones who turn into people at night. The day he truly sees a pink dolphin, the legend and the animal stop being the same thing.
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CRUM
The New Fear
Crum knows what gets eaten and what does not on his island without cats. Until a shadow with yellow eyes teaches him a fear his parents never had to learn.
Read now (in Spanish)The Wanha' collection
Five stories from the mangroves, wetlands, rivers and rainforest of Tabasco.
RIZELA
What the Sea Left Behind
Kena arrived from the coast with a jar full of shells, sure that there is no sea here. In the backwater there is a mangrove that shouldn't be there either. An oyster buried in a riverbank is about to tell her why.
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XIKNAL
The Missing Pink
Abril has to paint the most beautiful thing in the lagoon for the school mural, and she chooses the roseate spoonbills. But the real ones are no longer the pink everyone remembers. Should she paint them the way people remember them, or the way she saw them?
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CENTOR
The Ghost of the Pool
In Frontera, by the river mouth, everyone knows that a ghost lives under the old pier, stealing fish and cutting fishing lines. Tavo and Yami set out to find out what it is. What they find at the bottom of the pool has a huge shadow, a hidden blade and a name nobody expected.
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BRAMOR
Something Roars in the Forest
On her first night in the hills, Kena hears an enormous roar and hides under the blanket. By day she discovers that the monster is a black monkey that eats leaves, but nobody in the village believes her. When a new dirt road splits the forest, the roars grow louder and someone decides to cut down the wrong tree.
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MELITA
The Queen Who Never Saw a Flower
MELITA is the queen of a log full of bees and has never seen a flower: she knows the world only from what her daughters tell her, and each one tells it differently. Outside live some very strange giants, and the smallest of them is afraid of the bees. This story is seen from inside the log.
Read now (in Spanish)To talk about afterward: Who needed to be heard? What would you have done? When did something like this happen to you?
Each story is half-letter size: read it for free on screen or print it at home.
The Wanha' collection. The stories of RIZELA, XIKNAL, CENTOR, BRAMOR and MELITA also travel in print with their Guardian Pack.
The stories are tales, not scientific reports. The sources for the game's facts are in Behind every card.
For listening
The Guardians' podcast
The lights go out. A microphone turns on. Someone says “once upon a time” and the jungle answers.
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