A Margarita Debayle

The wooden puppet who lies, runs away and slowly learns what it costs to grow up. Collodi's full novel in Spanish, divided into short chapters that suit reading one per night.

Carlo Collodi

Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a world of talking animals, riddles and shifting sizes. The complete text in Spanish, and at eighty-two pages one of the shorter classics here.

Lewis Carroll

The boy who refuses to grow up takes the Darling children to Neverland. Barrie's full novel in Spanish, set in large type across 310 pages.

James M. Barrie

A girl sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps, and what happens when she is taken away to the city. The complete novel in Spanish, warm and easy to follow.

Johanna Spyri

A pilot stranded in the desert meets a boy from another planet who asks the questions adults stopped asking. Thirty-four pages with the original drawings, short enough to read in one afternoon.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry