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Lingofable

A 4-part Spanish story series

The Oak Between Our Windows

El roble entre nuestras ventanas

  1. Part 1: The Blue Hat in the Old Tree

    A0 Spanish · 2 min read

    The wind steals Maite's favorite blue hat and hangs it high in the oldest tree in Valparaíso. A quiet stranger climbs up, brings it to her door, and stays for something warm. He may be the last friend that tree ever makes.

  2. Part 2: Ten Names and a Green Hat

    A0 Spanish · 2 min read

    A book of neighbors' names, a hand-knitted green hat, and one secret Baltazar is delighted to share out loud. Ten days on the clock in Valparaíso, and the old oak isn't the only thing about to fall.

  3. Part 3: Amaru Says No

    A0 Spanish · 2 min read

    One piece of paper proves what Amaru really told Baltazar. The second paper, glimpsed through his window at night, is a bus ticket south.

  4. Part 4: The Tenth Name

    A0 Spanish · 2 min read

    The vote and Amaru's bus south fall on the same morning, and Graciela has waited fifty years to tell the courtyard whose tree it really is.