“El Ratón

Pérez”

“Mouse

Pérez”

Adaptation and recreation of the

children's story “Mouse Pérez”, of

Father Luis Coloma S. J.

© Ediciones Arenal 8 Factory S.L.

• Érase una vez un Rey muy jovencito, Buby I. Una noche mientras cenaba se le movió un diente (de repente).

• There was once a King very youngster, Buby the first. One night while he was having dinner a tooth moved him (suddenly)

• Consultaron a los doctores del equipo médico real, (cinco en total). Decidieron con rapidez el diente extraer.

• They consulted the doctors of the medical royal equipment, (five in total). They decided quickly the tooth to extract.

• La reina Crisabel, su madre, propuso ponerlo bajo la almohada y escribir una carta al ratón Pérez. “Así lo manda la tradición”.

• Querido Señor Pérez: Quiero conocerlo, tengo muchas de verle.

• The Queen Crisabel, his mother, said to him that it should put it under the pillow and he should write a letter to the mouse. " This says the tradition ".

• Dear Mr. Perez: I want to know him, I have wish to see him.

• Se quedó en su dormitorio vestido con su mejor pijama (sentadito sobre la cama), pero Ratón Pérez tardaba y Buby quedódormido (chupándose el dedito).

• He waited in his bedroom dressed in his better pijama (sat on the bed), but Mouse Perez was late and Buby fell asleep (Sucking his finger).

• Sintió que se movía el edredón y abriólos ojos.

• ¡Ahí estaba el famosísimo Ratón Pérez!. Se hicieron muy amigos.

• He felt that the eiderdown was moving and opened his eyes.

• There Perez was the most famous Mouse!. They became very friends.

• Buby pidió poder acompañarle y Pérez usó su magia para transformarle de niño a ratoncete en un periquete. Salieron de palacio por las alcantarillas.

• Buby asked to be able to accompany him and Perez used his magic to transform him of child to mouse in a tick. They went out of Palace for the sewers.

• Llegaron a un sótano en la calle del Arenal, lleno de quesos y jamones, bombones y caramelos, con la casa de los Pérez en una caja de galletas. Una casa pequeña por fuera y muy grande por dentro.

• They came to a basement in the street Arenal, there were a lot of cheeses and hams, chocolates and candies, and the house of the Perez in a box of cookies. A small house outside and very big inside..

• Allí esperaba la familia del ratón: Adelaida y Elvira, sus hermanas y su madre Dña. Concha. Tomaron café y estuvieron un ratito hablando.

• There he expected the family of the mouse: Adelaide and Elvira, his sisters and his mother Dña. Concha. They took coffee and they were speaking a little.

• Salieron del sótano por el desagüe. Tenían cinco dientes que recoger. Primero el de un niño, Gilito, que vivía en la calle Mayor; tenían que subir al último piso.

• They went out of the basement for the water-drainage. They had five teeth that to gather. First that of a child, Gilito, who was living in the Major Street; they had to rise to the last floor.

• Allí dormía Gilito con su madre. Eran muy pobres y no tenían muebles. Buby quedómuy impresionado. Debían cambiar el diente por una moneda.

• There Gilito was sleeping with his mother. They were very poor and did not have furniture. Buby was very impressed. They had to change the tooth for a coin.

• Gilito abrió los ojos por el ruido justo en el momento en que Buby se despertaba con un beso de la reina Crisabel. Un beso de madre, dulce como la miel.

• Gilito opened the eyes of the noise just in the moment when Buby woke with a kiss of the Queen Crisabel. A kiss of mother, as sweet as honey.

• Confundido miró debajo de la almohada y encontró su regalo: una moneda de oro dentro de un cofre. Y así, recordando a Gilito, Buby decidió gobernar para que no hubiera pobres en su reino. FIN

• Confused looked under the pillow and found his gift: a gold coin in a jewelry box. And so, remembering to Gilito, Buby decided to govern for that there wasn’t poverty in his kingdom. THE END