La Pajarita De Papel/The Little Spanish Folded Paper Bird is an enchanting collection of stories translated by Edith Rusconi Kaltovich. Working with prize-winning author Maria Luisa Cresta de Leguizamon, she has translated three stories and included three stories of her own. Children will marvel at the mythical and magical stories of famed Argentinean author Maria Luisa Cresta de Leguizamon, translated and collected literature, crafting stories which are dreamy and hypnotic. "Legend of Dream," is about a man named Sleep and his children Dreams. In "Mirandolina," a girl fish dreams about traveling the world. "Peter and the Caged Moon" is about a young boy who goes to hunt the moon. The mesmerizing story of "Gaillard, The Pelican" follows Gaillard as he manages to survive his ancestors and even extinction. Well received in the arena of children's literature, many of these stories have already been recognized with awards. "El Mono Mirikinia" received first place in the Children's Contest at the Pen Women convention in Washington, D.C. in 2000. "Black Flaucho" was a finalist in the Council on Interracial Books for Children Inc. in New York in 1972. "Mirandolina's Adventure" and "Peter abd the Caged Moon," both won prizes in a literary contest in Buenos Aires. Intelligent and inspired, La Pajarita De Papel/The Little Spanish Folded Paper Bird is a book that will find a treasured place in family home libraries everywhere