The Little Donkey Nico / El Burrito Nico

This is the true story of a family in the early 1900's on both sides of the Mexican American border. Before the days of vaccinations and antibiotics tuberculosis took the life of the mother of four young children and left the youngest boy quite ill. After the remarriage of their father the four children travel to Mexico to live with their new mother. There Johnny, the youngest boy, is given donkey milk which restores him to health. He learns to nurse directly, along with the young foal Nico...