On April 23, the Guadalajara International Book Fair celebrated World Book and Copyright Day, an important date to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Hundreds of readers lent their voices to read aloud the work Recollections of Things to Come by writer Elena Garro.

As part of the celebration, FIL Niños created an experience inspired by the narrative voice of this work that was fundamental for magical realism. A route from Ixtepec (Elena Garro); Casa Tomada (Julio Cortázar); Comala (Juan Rulfo); Cuévano (Jorge Ibargüengoitia); Macondo (Gabriel García Márquez), The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende), to Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges). The attendees toured this literary map where each place told them its own story. Encouraged by the soundscape, those who ventured to follow the route and listen used typewriters or colored pencils to leave testimony of their own imaginary lands.

Discover the transforming power of the word through the body and sound. The project "Slam! Sound Poetry” is a project that started in 2019. During several weeks of workshop sessions the children experienced the poetic language of words and transmitted it with their voice and body.

The Subversive Printing Press is a mobile unit, equipped with a printing press, where the children created subversive posters based on the ten ecstatic postulates of the book ANARCHY explained to children by José Antonio Emmanuel. Through a series of self-directed workshops, the children experimented with printing machines, language and the construction of messages that express their desires and propose ways of living together free of violence in their community.

Coordinated by Ana Luelmo
University Press of Guadalajara
The questions presented here are an invitation to know a bit more than what we already know, to not lose our capacity for wonder and to keep asking. But more important than the answers are the questions that can be generated page after page, the more playful the better, because the path to knowledge is absolutely fun. This book is an interactive machine that works as a trigger for more questions, and seeks to promote the formulation of questions as a fun path to knowledge. Its reading is designed so that, in a playful way, children and adults can satisfy their curiosity and exercise together their capacity for wonder.