NO HAY TIEMPO PARA JUGAR (NO TIME TO PLAY) Text by Sandra Arenal Illustrations by Mariana Chiesa Edited by Herrín Hidalgo ISBN: 84-932004-6-8 120 pp. PVP: 20 euros No hay tiempo para jugar includes fifty brief stories about the life of boys and girls working in the Mexican city of Monterrey. Sociologist Sandra Arenal has interviewed many children, and the book on which this edition is based included stories which show the ugliest side of our world, the one we never want to see: boys and girls deprived of their childhood, with adult responsibilities, forced to work in the worst possible conditions, doing the hardest chores for meagre wages in order to support their families, pay for their education or merely to survive. Factory workers, street vendors, prostitutes, construction workers, maids, garbage collectors... In order that the reader does not forget that he or she is reading stories told by persons who are rarely older than ten or twelve, we have tried to include the possible portraits of these children. Based on photographs and sketches drawn in those same streets, Mariana Chiesa's woodcuts bring forth the visible drama on the young protagonists' faces. --