The Box of Holes. Carmen Gil
To Charo Romeu, who knows how to look at the world
through the holes in the air.
- Carmen Gil -
To my niece Carla and my nephews Miguel and Rodrigo,
hoping that their dreams fill up with holes
like the ones in this story.
- Mónica Carretero -
The Box of Holes
Text © Carmen Gil
Illustrations © Mónica Carretero
This edition © 2013 Cuento de Luz SL
Calle Claveles 10 | Urb Monteclaro | Pozuelo de Alarcón | 28223 | Madrid | Spain
www.cuentodeluz.com Title in Spanish: La caja de los agujeros English translation by Jon Brokenbrow
ISBN: 978-84-15784-44-9
Printed by Shanghai Chenxi Printing Co., Ltd. xxxx 2013, print number xxx
All rights reserved
Andrea arrived home with a big smile on her
face. In her hands she held the box of holes
that Mr. Gordon had sold her.
Her mom, however, was anything but happy.
“Andrea, holes aren’t anything! That box is empty!”
“It isn’t empty,” insisted the little girl, and she
ran off to her bedroom, clutching the box tightly
against her chest.
She opened it carefully, put her hand inside, and felt as
though hundreds of butterflies were fluttering in her heart.
Andrea took a hole from inside the box and looked at it
inquisitively. It was shaped like a peanut, or an oak leaf.
Suddenly, she heard a tiny, angry voice.
“That’s mine!” It was a mouse with big ears, and he was running around one
of the legs of the chair. “I work for the Tooth Fairy, and what you just
pulled out of that box is one of the holes from my favorite cheese.”
Andrea was amazed. Imagine talking to a mouse who collects teeth!
The mouse grabbed his hole and ran off down the hall, grumbling to himself:
“Don’t make me waste my time. I’ve got lots of dollar bills to stick under
hundreds of kids’ pillows. I’m in a real rush!”
After watching the little mouse mutter his way down the hall, Andrea went
back to her room.
She eagerly pulled another hole from the box. This one was the size
of a marmalade jar.
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