Everybody tells Ladybug her painting is not an elephant, but a giant ball of fluff. But... is it? A pleasantly colorful book, printed in stone paper, that invites readers to be imaginative and creative.

In school, the forest children had fun discovering the names of distant jungles, jumping around in the schoolyard, learning new songs. Miss Dragonfly asked their students to draw an elephant as homework. Ladybug's friends Snail, Firefly and other colleagues were the first to show their masterpiece. Ladybug surprised everyone by drawing a giant ball of fluff.

There was no sign of the pachyderm All the forest animals were worried: why would she have drawn something like that? Miss Dragonfly couldn't believe it, so she warned Ladybug's parents. It was not like her to do such thing... Who knows Maybe she needed an ear exam... People in the forest started gossiping, but she could not be any healthier Soon enough, Ladybug made it clear that perhaps they were wrong prejudging her creativity.

Mariquita dibuja un elefante precioso, pero los dem s solo ven una pelusa gigante. Un libro lleno de color, impreso en papel de piedra, que invita a los lectores a creer en el poder de la imaginaci n y a ser creativos.

En la escuela, los ni os del bosque se divierten descubriendo los nombres de selvas lejanas, saltando en el patio con sus compa eros, aprendiendo nuevas canciones. Do a Lib lula, la maestra, pidi a sus alumnos que dibujaran un elefante como deberes. Los amigos de Mariquita, Caracol, Luci rnaga y otros de sus amigos fueron los primeros en ense ar su obra maestra delante de sus compa eros. Mariquita los sorprendi a todos cuando ense su dibujo: una bola gigante de pelusa

No hab a ni rastro del paquidermo Todos los animales del bosque estaban preocupados: por qu habr a dibujado algo as ? Do a Lib lula no daba cr dito, as que llam inmediatamente a los padres de Mariquita y los avis . No era propio de ella hacer semejante cosa... Qui n sabe Quiz s necesitaba que un m dico, podr a tener alg n problemilla de audici n. La gente del bosque empez a chismorrear, pero Mariquita estaba m s sana que un roble Muy pronto, Mariquita dej en claro que tal vez los dem s estaban equivocados al criticar su creatividad.

Read the first pages of El d a que mariquita dibuj una pelusa gigante here below: