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To the elves on the children’s hospital wards,
the ones who fill the air with wonderful things that
nobody can see, but which are there all the same.
- Carmen Gil -
To my beloved mother Naciza Lavinia,
who, despite the distance between us,
is always in my air.
- Turcios -
The Things in the Air
Text © Carmen Gil
Illustrations © Turcios
This edition © 2013 Cuento de Luz SL
Calle Claveles 10 | Urb Monteclaro | Pozuelo de Alarcón | 28223 | Madrid | Spain
www.cuentodeluz.com Title in Spanish: Las Cosas del Aire English translation by Jon Brokenbrow
ISBN: 978-84-15784-04-3
Printed by Shanghai Chenxi Printing Co., Ltd. xxxx 2013, print number xxx
All rights reserved
The Sparkling Elves loved the Things in the Air,
those things that nobody can see, but which are
there all the same. With their suits in dazzling
colors and their huge glittering grins, the elves
spent entire days fluttering from place to place
in the Forest of Light, looking for flying surprises.
Early one morning, when the whole countryside looked as if a child had
painted it, a lemon-green elf trapped a kiss that was flapping around an
oak tree, a kiss that the Rainbow Fairy had blown to the frog living in the
lake. It was a small peck of a kiss, sweet and full of life.
Another time, an elf wearing overalls chased a lovely aroma for three days.
It was the delicious smell of Grandma Sarah’s cinnamon cake! Everyone
who’d ever tried this cake claimed that just one bite would make you walk
on air.
The elf followed it
along the winding
paths, through the
mountains, and along
the banks of the river, until he finally
found it tucked under a woodpecker’s wing.
Just a few days ago, a purple elf discovered how words crashed into each
other high up in the sky, close to the stars, and new ones were born. He
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