El genial protagonista y sus compañeros han sobrevivido al curso y felices y contentos, se separan para las vacaciones. Incluso, contra todo pronóstico, Nicolás ha sido merecedor de un premio: el de la elocuencia.
There is nothing that little Nicolas and his friends like more than the sound of the recess bell. There, out in the schoolyard, they can do everything they had been planning while in class.