“Colecciono libritos” (es/en)

Hello, friends. Once again I dedicate valuable time to this collector's corner. Since I discovered this community, I have found that this desire to save today makes me have treasures and share them.
Generally, we all have a library at home. In the case of mine, I have it quite organized. Within it, I have a collection of very valuable dictionaries.

Someday I will show them to you. It happens that being a professor of Linguistics at a University, I show my students the value of words. For this purpose I tried to make a collection of gazetteer books, all belonging to the same author. He published 4 volumes, and I only have the first, the third and the fourth. I never found the second one.

But on my big bookshelf I have a special corner. There I treasure the smallest books, so small that they fit in my pocket. That's what they were designed for. I keep this collection deeply and do not lend it out. Of them, I only showed one to a child 7 years ago and he tore the cover off. It's the "Once upon a time" mini-book. That taught me a great lesson: they don't lend them out.

At every book fair held in my province, I always looked for these tiny books. They are no longer sold. That is why I keep them with pride. Today I opened the box I keep them in and took them to my Hive photography set, that's why you see the stickers in the background. This is where I take the items I photograph to show later.

Once I cleaned everything up, once I had those immaculate slabs, I organized them. It took me a long time, because I felt the need to read some of them; I didn't remember the plots of several stories, but they are easy to read. In them is a children's literature impregnated with human values. They are stories that are not so well known anymore. Not even television versions of them, which is so unfortunate. That is why I keep them. Thanks to them I became a good man and someday I will read them to my children, but they will not touch them until they show me care.

Of these little books, there are two that mean a lot to me, because I did not buy them. I inherited them from a teacher who saw in me an eagerness to read. They are the first ones I had. When I saw that they published such small books, I became interested in collecting them. The smallest ones are 8 cm long by 7 cm wide. The larger ones, which are also small, are 13 cm long by 9 cm wide.

I treasure those works of Grimm, Andersen, authors with whom the world has grown up and whose works are universally known, translated and loved by millions of people. I also have Cuban authors and even the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which in the form of a mini-book was published a few years ago.

From that collection of minibooks there are 3 that I lent and never returned to me. I do not forget the titles: "La última hoja", by O. Henry; "Dan-Auta", a short story by José Ortega y Gasset and "El pastor y la hija del Sol", by the great Herminio Almendros. Undoubtedly, books are not lent, unless it is to someone I trust. I hope someday to get them back.

In the meantime, I flip through these little treasures from time to time. Children should know about this type of publication. Today the new technologies have stolen children's attention. Reading should be a source of family enjoyment and stimulate imagination and creativity. Collecting also contributes to that. I really enjoy reading about the collections of friends in this community.

Do you recognize those little books in my collection, have you read any of them, do you dare to tell me what impressed you the most? I read you in the comments and thank you for your support.

The images used in the publication were taken with my Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime cell phone. Texts translated into English by Deepl Translate.