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Winner at the 2012 Living Now Book Awards. Imagination flies free in this fun, entertaining, and sleepy time picture book for young, creative kids seeing the world in ways most of us cannot even imagine.

Zaira is a little girl who can't stop imagining. She sees the world with such vivid colors, dreamlike shapes, that everyone fins it difficult to believe her. Her imagination soon leads her to meet some very special friends --in a fountain, right in the middle of the town square, she sees a group of dolphins playing in the water.

Everyday she goes by the fountain to say hi, but one day the dolphins weren't there. To her distress, the fountain was empty. "You are so dreamy, Zaira. Dolphins doesn't exist", said some children who were playing by the fountain. At that very instant, a magic fairy appeared and rescued Zaira, bringing her the hopes and dreams she'd lost.

Illusion takes center stage in this story, which not only stimulates the imagination among the little ones, but also appeals to this wonderful faculty of the human being as the ideal means to give wings to our games during childhood and to our dreams in maturity.

La imaginaci n vuela libremente en este libro ilustrado divertido, entretenido y so ador para esos ni os peque os y creativos que ven el mundo de formas y colores que la mayor a de nosotros ni siquiera podr amos imaginar.

Zaira es una ni a que no puede dejar de imaginar. Ve el mundo con colores tan vivos, con formas de ensue o, que a todo el mundo le cuesta creerla. Su imaginaci n pronto la lleva a conocer a unos amigos muy especiales: en una fuente, en medio de la plaza del pueblo, ve un grupo de delfines jugando en el agua.

Todos los d as pasa junto a la fuente a saludarlos, pero un d a los delfines no est n all . Zaira, disgustada, se encontr que la fuente estaba vac a. Eres tan so adora, Zaira. Los delfines no existen , dijeron unos ni os que jugaban junto a la fuente. En ese mismo instante, un hada m gica apareci y rescat a Zaira, llev ndole las esperanzas y los sue os que hab a perdido.

La ilusi n cobra protagonismo en esta historia, que no solo estimula la imaginaci n de los m s peque os, sino que apela a esta maravillosa facultad del ser humano que da alas a nuestros juegos durante la infancia y a nuestros sue os en la madurez.

Read the first pages of Zaira y los delfines here: