AXO · Twelve Under the RootEvery 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.
Illustrated stories
FAUNA Guardianes
One adventure per Guardian, for ages 10 and up. To read on screen, aloud or on paper.
Stories of the Guardians
BALAM · The Broken TrailBalam 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.
CORAL · Who Makes the SandCoral 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. Lija only wants Coral to see her learn.
LUMA · The Voice from the Other SideBrasa 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.
VITA · The Edge of SilenceNita 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.
ÁMBAR · Those Who ReturnWith 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.
BALEY · New BloodHer 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 Guardian is the Mexican wolf; the young wolf in the story is named Bruna.
CIMA · The One No One SeesBeto 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.
INIA · The Enchanted OneNoé 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.
CRUM · The New FearCrum 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.
The Wanha' collection
RIZELA · What the Sea Left BehindKena 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.
XIKNAL · The Missing PinkAbril 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?
CENTOR · The Ghost of the PoolIn 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.
BRAMOR · Something Roars in the ForestOn 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.
MELITA · The Queen Who Never Saw a FlowerMELITA 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.