ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a large framework that will allow us 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. Latin America represents almost 14 percent of our planet's continental space. Magical realism represents a literary current that symbolizes the most authentic American literature. The term was first coined in 1925 by the German reviewer Franz Roh, in regard to post-expressionist painting, referring to a generation of painters who attained a new view of reality, painting everyday objects from the starting point of contemplating the world as if it were emerging from emptiness, a magic recreation.
