Tesoros en los bolsillos

"Treasures in Pockets" represents the curiosity of childhood, its capacity for wonder and surprise, its ability to perceive beauty in the simplest things. This is how the pockets of the little girl who stars in these illustrated free-verse poems fill up with "useful and useless things, pretty and strange things, things neither pretty nor strange." Everyday objects like a piece of chalk, elements of nature like river pebbles, and objects as mundane—yet potentially playful—as a strand of wool form a precious catalog of treasures that connect with the child's imagination, their first emotions, and experiences of the world around them. They can be traded or become a valuable talisman against fears; they can even move from the material to the intangible, like words, and go beyond when they transcend the measurable, like a storm or the sea. It is then that this container of treasures takes on a symbolic dimension, giving rise to a "secret pocket" where everything fits.