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After seventeen years in the United States of
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In spite of his extensive and diverse literary works, Rafael Pombo is mostly remembered for this contribution to children's literature. Among his most popular children's fables are
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oral tradition. The product of this work, more than a translation, was a transformative adaptation published in two books under the titles
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