Ambrosia gives her Uncle Ignacio, a/k/a Uncle Nacho, a new hat. No matter what he does with the old one, he keeps getting it back. The Nicaraguan tale concerns making changes and getting rid of bad habits. This English/Spanish bilingual edition illustrated with brightly colored, bordered acrylic paintings is an adaptation of the version used by the Puppet Workshop of Nicaraguan National Television. (Ages 5-9)

A bilingual folk tale from Nicaragua about a well-meaning man who can't figure out how to make changes in his life until his niece, Ambrosia, shows him how.