ABSTRACT
Magical realism is an extensive and complex concept and it may seem ambitious to explore it deeply in a brief paper. I therefore offer a large framework that will allow me to contextualize the development of a type of narrative in Latin American children’s books where a symbiosis between magic and realism is attained. To talk about magical realism as a Latin American literary movement it is necessary to probe into the considerations about the identity and the historical process that produced multicultural nations with common roots; it implies the need to recognize the power of faith as part of a deep and racially mixed religiousness; and to admit the powerful presence of nature, impressive and boundless, in everyday life.
