Hmm… Don’t know. I’ve never seen/read a lot of the really popular series because a lot of them seem to fall into the action category and I’m not really into that type of thing. I find I tend to like series with ongoing plots that are like puzzles which you gradually work out. Must be from liking to read mystery novels. ^_^;

Not sure about that either. Maybe, Lagrimas de Diamante was a nickname for the birds that originated in Portuguese? Can’t think of another good reason for it being written like that.