A Buen Paso 2016 General Catalogue
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A Buen Paso 2016 General Catalogue
A BUEN PASO CATALOGUE 2016 2 CONTACT ariannasq@gmail.com www.abuenpaso.com buen paso NE WT ITL E! 3 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE UN JARDÍN / A GARDEN Each night Mr Wakagi dreams with a garden, and each night Mr Wakagi becomes an animal in that garden. He becomes a frog, a rabbit, María José Ferrada, text a fox… And, as he feels the rhythm of nature, he becomes also the rain, Isidro Ferrer, original idea & illustrations the wind. Until one day he realizes that the garden has been his school and now he feels ready to disappear in it, to become nature on his own. 18 x 18 cm | 10 panels + tubular folding While reading the poetical words written by the Chilean poet María ISBN: 978-84-944076-8-0 José Ferrada, this book will unfold in front of the eyes of the reader, who will see how the beauty of this garden appear in the frieze created by Isidro Ferrer. NE WT ITL E! 4 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EL VUELO DE LA FAMILIA KNITTER / THE KNITTER FAMILY’S FLIGHT Guia Risari, text Anna Castagnoli, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 36 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-944076-9-7 The Knitter family was quite an average family, there were the father, the mother, two children, a dog, a cat and a canary. And it was precisely the canary who, in an extremely hot day, began to teach them how to fly. When holidays come, the whole family will decide to fly to their destination. Thus they will reach an island that looks like paradise. The days spent on the island fells like a dream, but every dream has to come to an end, or so says the father. So that the family unwillingly prepares to fly back home, although… Is that true that every dream comes to an end? NE WT ITL E! 5 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE UNA HISTORIA VERDADERA A TRUE STORY (THE PEAS TALE) Juan Arjona, text Rocío Araya, illustrations 18 x 30 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-944076-7-3 Grandfather Manolo was painter and, jumping from one scaffolding to the other, he used to fly. Grandmother Carmen did not fly at all. Sitting in a cool corner at home, in her rocking chair, she spent her time peeling peas. Thus begins this sweet love story, built in the best tradition of the magic realism. Where grandma’s patient work will somehow save the life of this grandfather, a man who, light as feather, spends his day flying through and fro, causing all the neighbours to stare at him in awe, thinking that one day or another something bad will happen. But the neighbours haven’t taking into account the power of love, a force capable to achieve the unbelievable. NE WT ITL E! 6 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE UN REGALO PARA NINO A GIFT FOR NINO Lilith Moscon, text Francesco Chiacchio, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 44 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-945038-0-1 Nino, the postman, lives in 753 Gran Via. He is one of those people whose good mood and happiness are contagious. He is fine with his life, although sometimes he fells a bit lonely, because he would have loved to have a daughter, but he never had the chance… One day on his way back home, he meets a series of animals (seagull, dog, otter, donkey), each one of them carrying a part of the body of a little girl, who they claim lives in 753 Gran Via and needs it. At the beginning Nino finds it all extremely weird and is shocked, but when he gets back home he will find the most beautiful gift. NE WT ITL E! 7 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE UNA VACA / A COW Juan Arjona, text Luciano Lozano, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-944076-5-9 One day in the city strange things happen: some people swear they have seen a cow strolling by, two painters fall from the scaffolding they are working on, but luckily fall onto a white mattress that has some peculiar black stains; some thieves can’t escape because something is obstructing their way … Indeed at dusk, between the night breeze and the morning buzzing, a cow leaves town and goes back to the meadow. A delicate tale written by Juan Arjona and illustrated by Luciano Lozano that makes us think about the strength of the destiny and the power of coincidence that sometimes make our life a little bit more unpredictable, surprising and easy. NE WT ITL E! 8 EL RÍO DE LOS COCODRILOS THE CROCODILES’ RIVER Gustavo Roldán, text 21 x 25 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-944076-6-6 TO BE PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE Without a shadow of doubt, the river is the best place for a crocodile, at least this is what the elderly crocodile thinks as the river’s current gently rocks him. The Mister in the red suit had never heard of that ancient Greek philosopher who said that you can’t bathe twice in the same river. One day, the Mister in the red suit reaches the crocodiles’ river putting forward a contract and a little bottle of water taken out of the river that he had just bought: he is the new river owner and the crocodile must leave. The elderly crocodile does not agree with him… Gustavo Roldán tells a simple story that reminds us that there are things that you can’t sell nor buy. 9 PUBLISHED IN KOREAN BY JIYANGSA TO BE PUBLISHED EN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EL DESHIELO / THE THAW Riki Blanco 24 x 32 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-944076-0-4 A long time ago, two kingdoms fighting each other, the same night conquered one another. Whne they realized what happened, each family will stay and live in the house that most looks like their own in the other kingdom. Meanwhile the kings are negotiating day after day, week after week, but can’t meet an agreement… An epic tale, where the are no heroes to be found, and whose rythm is set by the seasons going by, and the irresistible strength of life. 10 TO BE PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EL ÁRBOL DE LAS COSAS THE TREE OF THINGS María José Ferrada, text Miguel Pang Ly, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-944076-3-5 One day Mary discovers a peculiar tree in her garden. And from that day on she can’t stop asking herself questions. On the tree of things grow fishes, stars and clouds. But when the flowers on the other trees get transformed into fruits, the flowers of the tree of things simply disappear and do not become anything. This books proposes a journey through a garden and through our life’s mysteries. The reader will be guided by María José Ferrada’s poetic words and Miguel Pang Ly’s whimsical illustrations, that fill the garden with funny and curious creatures, and at the same time draw the beautiful image of the tree, something special, that comes from a far away and unknown place. 11 ILLUSTRATIONS SELECTED AT ILUSTRARTE 2016, PORTUGAL RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE YA. NUNCA ALREADY. NEVER In this book words and images intertwine with each other in a poetic way to shape a person’s journey through life. Some things in life mark a deep change between the past and the future to come, things that, once you do them, change your understanding and vision of the world. ALREADY. NEVER is a book that is built upon a couple of sentences: the things the narrator has already done and the ones he’ll never do, and whose meaning come to life thanks to an image that dialogues both with the impossible and the lost innocence. Thus the reader naturally begins a contemplative process, which rhythm is established by the inquiries and the silence of a black human shape. Grassa Toro, text Cecilia Moreno, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 48 pp | HB with die cut ISBN: 978-84-944076-1-1 12 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE TIENES UN VESTIDO BLANCO YOU ARE WEARING A WHITE DRESS Arianna Faber, illustrations María José Ferrada, text 16 x 19 cm | 56 pp | PB + jacket ISBN: 978-84-942854-7-9 A sweet book that will comes along with you, while you walk through the garden of the world, and across the fur seasons. There’s a young girl who’s wearing a white dress, anything the dress touches becomes part of it and intertwines with the nature that surrounds it. Come along with this young girl and spend the afternoon with her, discovering the wonder of life. 13 INCLUDED INTO THE LIST THE BEST 20 BOOKS IN 2016, CUATROGATOS FOUNDATION CON EL OJO DE LA I IN THE I’S EYE. POEMS TO TRAVEL BY TRAIN Mar Benegas, text Olga Capdevila, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 56 pp | HB + die cuts ISBN: 978-84-942854-5-5 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE By opening this book the reader has to be ready start a journeys through words: the reader will find calligrams , secret languages and other mysteries awaiting to be solved, songs, tongue-twisters, poems composed using one vowel and even one poem in gliglic, the language invented by the writer Cortázar. A book to paly with words, their shape, meaning, and sound, following the steps of a detective and his hound who will take you to a journey together with some extremely lively letter, so that time will fly. A tribute to the power of playing in order to get acquainted to the whole potential of a word and an image. 14 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE BUÑUELOS DE HURACÁN HURRICANE DOUGHNUTS Pep Bruno, text and script Carla Besora, illustrations 22,5 x 8,6 cm | 32 pp | HB with exposed back ISBN: 978-84-942854-6-2 Since Proust we all know the power of a madeleine. The pastry chef in this tale has unique abilities and her doughnuts are able to take anyone who eats them into a fantastic journey across the land and the sky. And, one they are back, their life won’t be the same. A surreal journey where the keen reader won’t only find echoes of the taste of food, but also of his own readings and the world that surrounds us. The illustrations play freely, running among doughnut looking islands, and letting the main characters of this tale fly and dance among the colours of the rainbow. This little book, that looks like a gift wrapped package, has the explosive strength of imagination. 15 RECORD DIARY, MEXICO, 2006, FOOTBALL STORIES FIRST PRIZE FOR THE TEXT OF THIS PICTURE BOOK DESDE LOS OJOS DE LUCAS IN THE EYES OF LUCAS Juan Carlos Quezadas, text Arianna Vairo, illustrations 22 x 31 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-942854-4-8 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE The word is a force capable of shaping the universe. Lucas knows it well. Each and every night, to keep the morale high, he spins a new tale and recounts a soccer game to his fellow sailors who work along him on a ship that always finds itself on the other side of the earth. He is able to recreate for those solitary men, the ups and downs, the dreams and the joys that these games are able to unleash. When the night comes, the dark wall of his cabin becomes a screen where the most beautiful colours you can think of, impossible plays, heart breaking football battles come to life. In the eyes of Luca brings the power of the word in all of its glory and you’ll never be able to watch a soccer game without thinking Lucas and his vivid imagination. 16 2ªEDITION PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE ABECEDARIO DEL CUERPO IMAGINADO / THE ABC OF THE IMAGINED BODY Mar Benegas, text Guridi, illustrations 18 x 32 cm | 38 pp | Japanese binding ISBN: 978-84-940533-9-9 The ABC of the imagined body is a work that with only 27 haikus and 459 syllables is able to talk to the reader of the lucidity and complexity of the human body, and how it fits into the world as part of the nature. Since the haiku is a synthetic poetical form, the writer Mar Benegas get rid of anything unnecessary leaving only the exact words, that become flash of understanding, the promise of something important. Guridi’s illustrations are based on the relationship between body and nature, so that flowers, leaves, blades of grass become clothes for the human being and for the emotions that compose his life. This book also includes a short text where the writer explains the essence of haikus and also gives to the reader some instructions to write his or her own haikus. 17 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE BURRO. EL ORIGEN DONKEY. THE BEGINNING Juan Arjona, text Luciano Lozano, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-942854-2-4 The main character of this story is a sad donkey who lives close to a weeping willow. And when the willow cries, the donkey cries as well. One day he decides he’s had enough crying and leaves. As he begind to walk the reader will see how a heroe is born: Donkey, who will plunge in the famouse story of the boastful she mouse, who he will help using his humour and clever immagination. During this adventures he will discoer his fantastic talent to disguise himself and his ability to undo spells and curses. He will thus manage to rewrite his own story and become a legend. 18 INCLUDED INTO THE LIST THE BEST 20 BOOKS IN 2016, CUATROGATOS FOUNDATION PUBLISHED IN FRENCH BY HONGFEI CULTURES RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE POLVO DE ROCA ROCK DUST Who says that rocks are lifeless beings who do not eat, nor drink, love? The main character of this short story knows exactly what she wants: there’s a whole world waiting for her and she will discover it. Her being so insistent will drive crazy a geologist who is only capable of believing in what he learnt reading books. With his mallet he will turn the rock to dust, thus making her dream come true. A delicious story, told through precise and poetic words, whose rhythm will lead the reader to cross oceans and deserts. Nono Granero, text Géraldine Alibeu, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-941579-8-1 19 FINALISTA FUNDATIONN CUATROGATOS PRIZE, 2014: EUSKADI ILLUSTRATIN PRIZE, 2015 EL LIBRO DE LA SUERTE THE GOOD LUCK BOOK In this upside down book you will find on one side Mr Goodluck story, and on the other Mr Badluck’s. Both live in the same building, but they do not know each other. One is an extremely tidy and organized person who takes life as it comes. The other one, a little bit grumpy, is always fighting Sergio Lairla, text against everything and everything is always fighting against him. They will Ana G. Lartitegui, illustrations decide to go on holidays the same weekend on the same island. A book 21 x 30 cm | 56 pp including gatefold | HB whose illustrations hide a total of 1,793 little visual details, that will have ISBN: 978-84-941579-9-8 you looking at two stories at the same time, while you keep thinking about fate, and how each one contributes creating his or her own luck. 20 RASABADÚ Édgar Omar Avilés, text | Cristina Sitja Rubio, illustrations 19 x 16,5 cm | 40 pp | HB | ISBN: 978-84-942854-1-7 Rasabadú is a paper dragon who lives in a gloomy warehouse together with tarantulas, flies, mice and other creatures. Rasabadú is a shy and naïve paper dragon who gets a colde and has to face his own true nature: will he sneeze fire, thus destroying his own self and all his friends, because he is a dragon? Or, since he is made out of paper, will he sneeze confetti? RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EL INTRUSO / THE INTRUDER Pablo Albo, text | Cristina Sitja Rubio, illustrations 19 x 16,5 cm | 36 pp | HB | ISBN: 978-84-942854-0-0 From the very day when a ball enters into his room through the window, the child who is narrating this story won’t be at peace… What is this ball claiming? Maybe does it want to take the child’s place? A slightly claustrophobic story that, using clear, concise, measured words, creates a beautiful contrast with the colorful images that depict a joyful, fantastic world. 21 PUBLISHED IN FRENCH BY MARMAILLE ET COMPAGNIE RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE ¿QUIÉN ES EL MÁS FUERTE DEL MUNDO? / WHO IS THE STRONGEST PERSON IN THE WORLD? Alberto Sobrino, text Julie Escoriza and Joan Casaramona Gual, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-941579-6-7 Some people are strong, extremely strong. I’m sure you know some of them, but do you know what makes them so strong? The funny narrator who tells this story will lead you to meet the people who live in his block. Each one of them somehow possesses an enormous strength. And the reader himself will be invited to think about his or her own strength. The colourful and fantastic illustrations of this book have a scent of the avant-gardes of the Twenties. In these images all the characters of the book come to life, meet each other and get slowly acquainted, thus creating the web on which we normally base our daily life. 22 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EN QUÉ PIENSA UNA CABEZA RECIÉN CORTADA WHAT DOESA CHOPPED HEAD THINK OF Juan Carlos Quezadas, text Carla Besora, illustrations 16,5 x 23,4 cm | 112 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-941579-5-0 Offshoot of a family of dragons breeder, Yan Pu enters Qin Shihuang court. Qin Shihuang has been the most bloodthirsty emperor ever, and, working for him, Yang Pu will be witness to a fierce struggle against death. In this story there coexists the secrets of writing, ghosts, and a terrible witch whose voice imitates a rat’s. This way you will disembark onto an island where nobody knows what death is, you will discover a unique technique to capture magical creatures as big as an ant’s leg, and you will get to talk with ghosts, those ghosts who always stand by your side, even if you don’t notice. And remember, if you feel curious as if you were about to begin a new journey, this is the occasion you were waiting for: open this book and get ready to dream. 23 2ªEDITION PREMI JUNCEDA, SPECIAL MENTION 2010 WHITE RAVENS 2010 PREMIOS VISUAL, ILLUSTRATOIN DIPLOME, 2009 PUBLISHED IN ITALIAN BY ORECCHIO ACERBO IN ENGLISH BY GROUNDWOOD BOOKS IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY WMF MARTINS FONT PAPÁ TATUADO TATTOOED DAD “Dad comes and goes, like night and day.” Dad is always far away, but when he is home, he tells his son the fantastic stories drawn in the tattooes that cover all his body. The skin has never so important as in the case of this tattooed father, you only need to open the book and let the adventure begin. Daniel Nesquens, text Sergio Mora, illustrations 22 x 31 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-941579-4-3 IN FRANCÉS POR CAMBOURAKIS IN DUTCH BY DE VIER WINDSTREKEN RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE 24 FINALIST OF THE FUNDACIÓN CUATROGATOS 2014 PRIZE: THE 20 BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE LA INVASIÓN MARCIANA THE MARTIAN INVASION Now it’s time that the First Human Being who Met a Martian tells what really happened the day when the sky was suddenly filled up by quite many suns, and the Martian Marc and his broken refrigerator fell onto the narrator’s balcony. The truth is that Martians can’t live without their refrigerator. Nowadays everybody knows that, but back then humans had it all wrong about Martians. It all began thanks to the special way to communicate Martians possessed, so special that it changed life on earth forever. Miguel Pang Ly illustrates this story with images that are a burst of vitality and creating an unforgettable Martian character. Catalina González Vilar, text Miguel Pang Ly, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN:978-84-941579-3-6 25 WHITE RAVENS 2014 EL ÚNICO Y VERDADERO REY DEL BOSQUE / THE ONE AND ONLY KING OF THE WOOD Iban Barrenetxea 19 x 23 cm | 80 pp | HB ISBN:978-84-941579-1-2 PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY COMPANHIA DAS LETRINHAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUGAGES AVAILABLE A hilarious story written in Iban Barrenetxea’s rich and elegant prose and detailed illustrations. It is the last Autumn day in the birch wood somewhere in the North, where in a tiny little wooden house live the brothers Jaska and Kaspar and their sister Masia. At dawn we are about to see how the chain of circumstances that is about to begin will change completely their lives, as well as the life of somebody else. A story where it will be clear who is the one and only King of the Wood. 26 RIGHTS FOR ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE LA CASA / THE HOUSE Daniel Nesquens, text Mercè López, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 56 pp | HB with poster jacket and red plastic sheet ISBN: 978-84-940533-7-5 Beneath the visible reality, there’s always another world. Caught up in the ancient family home, where nothing is what it seems, father and son will have to be clever, smart and fast and cooperate in order to save themselves. Because the house wants to eat them alive. The illustrations are as ambivalent as reality itself, since they hide some characters and even important details, that the reader will uncover placing a clear red plastic sheet onto the images. A surprising story that reveals itself little by little and leaves you wondering about the meaning of growing up and finding your own self. 27 PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS PUBLISHED IN ITALIAN BY BUK BUK RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EL REGALO DE LA GIGANTA THE GIFT OF THE GIANTESS Guia Risari, text Beatriz M. Terceño, illustrations 22 x 31 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-941579-0-5 The giantess represents the nature, its beauty, strength, delicacy, power, rage and –most of all– her consolation ability. Guia Risaris’s words create an evocative book that invites the reader to think about the nature that surrounds us, and of whom we are a part. Beatriz Martín Terceño’s hypnotic illustrations create –with great liberty in the strokes, lines and compositions– the giantess’s world, and fill it in with people, and among them a helpless child, who will keep moving from one page to the other until he becomes the recipient of the giantess’s greatest gift. 28 2ªEDITION PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY WMF MARTINS FONTES RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE SOY PEQUEÑITO I AM SMALL Juan Arjona, text Emilio Urberuaga, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 36 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-941579-2-9 A book that can be read like a poem, and in which the small main character of the story, due to his small size, is forced to have a peculiar vision of the things surrounding him. Playing with imagination and the proportions of reality, Juan Arjona and Emilio Urberuaga recreate the everyday life and the world where the small narrator of the story lives. He always finds someone willing to help him, and to save him from any uncomfortable situation. A sweet, cosy and familiar book that wraps its small readers (and their parents and grandparents) into a warm hug. A book so small that it ends up being big. 29 PARA NOCHES SIN SUEÑO ON A SLEEPLESS NIGHT PUBLISHED IN GERMAN BY MIXTVISION IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUGAGES VAILABLE 13,4 x 17,6 cm | 32 pp | HB PVP: 11,54 € + IVA ISBN: 978-84-940533-8-2 A book that, in just one second, will take the reader to cut his own room in the heart of a sleepless night. The images that create this book are made out of cut paper, this way the convert it into an expressionist, and at the same time primitive, synthetic, direct aesthetic proposal. This book, that has a small format, like a tiny secret, becomes the key to learn how to preserve something as important as the one’s own (intimate and little) space. BEST ORIGINAL WORKS FOR CHILDREN, BANCO DEL LIBRO, VENEZUELA, 2014 PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY WMF MARTINS FONTES RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE JUAN HORMIGA JOHN THE ANT Ants ara always extremely busy. Only John the Anr loves taking naps. some say he is lazy, but the truth is that nobody can resist the enchantment created by his stories, able to take each one far away, further than the solid walls of the anthill. Until one day John the Ant decides to live his own adventures. What he doesn’t imagine will happen is that a dreadful storm will unleash and change completely his plans. Gustavo Roldán Gustavo Roldán 25 x 27 cm | 64 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-940533-1-3 30 ANTONINO CONTRA EL TIEMPO antonino against time ANTONINO VA Y VIENE antonino comes and goes ANTONINO DE SUEÑO EN SUEÑO from a dream to the other Antonino is extremely little, nonetheless he is the strongest explorer, and mountain climber you can imagine. In his first adventure in the woods, he will meet Bear, who will become his best friend since Antonino saves him from a trap he has fallen into. In order to do this Antonino will have to take Bear to the hospital, crossing the woods and the marsh, passing by the mountain and the river in 5 minutes only, but Antonino is a person who doesn’t get scared easily. In each story ofthe series, Antonino and Bear will embark on an extraordinary adventure, filled with humour, that talks of the daily needs of a toddler: eating, sleeping, being loved and taken care of. It’s time to eat, and Antonino will do everything to make his friend Bear happy! For breakfast, he climbs to the top of the mountain to get fresh goat’s milk; for lunch, he dives into the sea to catch fresh fish; for the afternoon snack, he fights bees for the precious liquid. And for dinner he goes mushroom hunting. But Bear has already had enough to eat, and the only thing he wants is to go to sleep. So Antonino will do something special for him. As he is asleep next to his best friend Bear, Antonino dreams that he is the savior in many different situation, but each time Bear becomes the real savior of the dream. Antonino hurt to see the “victory” taken away from him in his own dreams decides to dream a far away dream. Unfortunately, in his faraway dream, he could really use Bear’s help this time... ISBN: 978-84-938036-8-1 WHITE RAVENS, 2012 THE SERIES HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN POLAND BY TAKO RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUGAGES AVAILABLE ANTONINO SERIES Juan Arjona, text Lluïsot, illustrations 21 x 15 cm | 28 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-938036-9-8 ISBN: 978-84-939414-9-9 31 3ªEDITION KIRICO BOOK PRIZE, 2011 CHILDREN’S LITERATURA, EUSKADI, 2012 EL CUENTO DEL CARPINTERO / THE CARPENTER’S TALE Iban Barrenetxea 19 x 23 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN:978-84-939414-2-0 PUBLISHED IN KOREAN BY WHALE STORY PUBLISHING IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY COMPANHIA DAS LETRINHAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE Fermín is the all-knowing and traditional carpenter, so much so that the day when the Baron von Bombus loses an arm in battle, the Doctor, the Baroness, the Minister and the Cardinal do not hesitate to come to him to make a new wooden one. The result will be so spectacular that the Baron is more willing than ever to go back to war. In fact, he keeps losing limbs until ...the hilarious end of the story. A funny and sharp pacifist fable, whose reader will at the same time burst out laughing and think about what’s important in life. 32 2ªEDICIÓN NATIONAL READING PLAN , 2013, COLOMBIA AMIGA GALLINA OUR FRIEND THE HEN Juan Arjona, text Carla Besora, illustrations 21 x 26,5 cm | 28 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-939414-0-6 PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY SM EDIÇÕES RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE Our friend the hen is a delightful tale about the friendship among a dog, a pig and a hen. One day they decide to get out of the yard to explore the world. The hen is awfully scared, but she doesn’t want to leave her friends alone. During the journey, the dog will make sure that everyone is safe, the pig will admire the landscape and the hen... Well, she will spend the whole journey laying one egg after the other, because she is so scared. A sweet and funny tale that reminds us how important our friends are despite their defects or, maybe, thanks to them. 33 PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE HISTORIAS DE CONEJO Y ELEFANTE / TALES OF RABBIT AND ELEPHANT Gustavo Roldán 19 x 23 cm | 78 pp | HB ISBN:978-84-938036-3-6 Rabbit and Elephant are two good friends who live in the jungle and take care of each other, although once in a while rabbit plays jokes on Elephant. Elephant doesn’t mind. He has his own sweet and philosophical way of giving it back to Rabbit. Together they aim to explore the world, but only when it isn’t raining, because neither of them like thunder. To work around this problem, they try to build travelling machines: one day it’s a train, the following an airplane, and finally a boat… 34 BIB, BRATISLAVA, 2011 ILLUSTRATION PRIZE EUSKADI, 2011 FINALIST AT THE CJ PRIZE, KOREA, 2011 PUBLISHED IN FRENCH BY ÉVEIL ET DECOUVERTES IN JAPANESE BY NISHIMURA IN RUSSIAN BY POLYANDRIA BOMBÁSTICA NATURALIS In this book the great scientist Bombastus Dulcimer gathers together all his inventions like the famous pear balloon or the olea bellica, i.e. an olive shotgun able to shoot once a year, when the olives are ripe. Whenever Bombastus and his inventions pass by, disorder and fun arise, and even the quiet life of an otherwise calm village gets upside down. In the short texts the reader will learn how Bombastus’ vegetable inventions work, but if the reader takes a closer look at the images, he will find out the many stories that develop along one day in Bombastus’ village. Iban Barrenetxea 24 x 29 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-938036-2-9 IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE 35 PUBLISHED IN KOREAN BY WHALE STORY PUBLISHING IN CHINESE (TAIWAN) BY 3&3 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INSTITUTE IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY SM EDIÇÕES IN ITALIAN BY TERRE DI MEZZO RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE PAPÁ OSO / BEAR DAD Cecilia Eudave, text Jacobo Muñiz, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-938036-4-3 Ana is a little girl like every other little girl and has a normal life until her dad changes job and begins to behave like a bear. Ana’s mom explains to her that it is all due to Mister Stress. So that Ana decides to investigate who this Mister Stress might be in order to ask him to give her father back to her. Following this young girl, we will discover how to fight the most scareful monster of out time: stress. PUBLISHED IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY MOV PALAVRAS RIGHTS FOR ALL OTHER LANGUAGES AVAILABLE LA CALLE DEL FANTASMA THE STREET OF THE GHOST Enric González, text Riki Blanco, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-937211-4-5 In each town in the world there’s a street where lives a ghost. This ghost can change your life, since you may ask him for anything you want. But beware, the ghost will ask you for something in exchange and you might think about the fact that some things are not replaceable. 36 SPECIAL MENTION SWEETEST CHARACTER, BANCO DEL LIBRO 2011 VLAG EN WIMPEL FOR THE BEST ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOK IN THE NETHERLANDS, SPECIAL MENTION, 2011 SOLIGATTO PRIZE FINALIST, ITALY, 2012 PUBLISHED IN FRENCH BY ÉDITIONS SARBACANE IN DUTCH BY VAN GOOR EL SEÑOR G. / MISTER G. Mister G.’s neighbours, who thought he was a quiet and nice person, now believe he is crazy: why does he want to plant a seed in the middle of the desert? Why does he claim that this plant will break the silence when everybody knows that plants don’t sing, neither talk? Mister G. doesn’t mind, and keeps on taking care of his seed, and also renounces to a part of his water to give it to the seed… Until one day a sudden “plop!” announces that a plant is born, a plant full of flowers. Immediately, out of nowhere, a flock of birds lands on the plant and gives the most beautiful co ncert ever heard. Maybe plants can make noise after all. Gustavo Roldán 13,4 x 17,6 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-937211-2-1 IN ITALIAN BY LA NUOVA FRONTIERA IN PORTUGUESE (BRAZIL) BY SM EDIÇÕES IN POLISH BY TAKO 37 LLORA QUE LLUEVE CRY AND IT WILL RAIN LA CAJA DEL PUERTO THE BOX IN THE HARBOUR LA VELA QUE NO SE APAGABA / THE CANDLE AND OTHER MYSTERIES Mau Conill, text Marc Torrent, illustrations Gemma Martí, text Meritxell Duran, illustrations Antonio Lozano, text Alba Marina Rivera, illustrations 20 x 26,5 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-940533-5-1 24 x 29 cm | 44 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-940533-3-7 22 x 31 cm | 46 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-939414-7-5 PLAN NACIONAL DE LECTURA Y ESCRITURA PARA LA PRIMERA INFANCIA 2013, COLOMBIA THE 2012 +, FUNDACIÓN GERMÁN SÁNCHEZ RUIPÉREZ ¿QUÉ TE PARECE? HOW ABOUT THIS? UN MENSAJE EN CLAVE A CODED MESSAGE Federico Delicado Nicolai Troshinsky 21 x 21 cm | 36 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-940533-0-6 17,5 x 17,5 cm | 32 pp | ISBN: 978-84-939414-5-1 JUNCEDA PRIZE, ILLUSTRATION, 2014 LA HIERBA MÁS VERDE WHERE THE GRASS IS GREENER Olalla H. Ranz, text Nafría, illustrations 21 x 15 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-939414-8-2 38 2012 +, FUNDACIÓN GERMÁN SÁNCHEZ RUIPÉREZ ADIÓS A LA TIERRA DE LOS COLORES VIVOS CONDUCIR ES FÁCIL GOODBYE TO THE LAND WHERE DRIVING IS EASY THE COLORS ARE BRIGHTS Fernando Pérez Hernando Oti Rodríguez Marchante, text Pere Ginard, illustrations 22 x 30 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-939414-4-4 EL ACTOR / ACTING Uday Prakash, text Simone Rea, illustrations 22 x 31 cm | 32 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-939414-1-3 16,5 x 23,4 cm | 64 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-939414-6-8 2012 +, FUNDACIÓN GERMÁN SÁNCHEZ RUIPÉREZ PLAN NACIONAL DE LECTURA Y ESCRITURA PARA LA PRIMERA INFANCIA 2013, COLOMBIA EL VIAJE / THE JOURNEY LA FÁBRICA DE NUBES THE CLOUDS FACTORY Arianne Faber 22,5 x 8,6 cm | 64 pp | exposed binding ISBN: 978-84-939414-3-7 Arianne Faber 22,5 x 8,6 cm | 48 pp | exp. binding ISBN: 978-84-937211-6-9 AGAPITA, BERENGUER Y WENCESLAO: ¿DE QUÉ OS REÍS? WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT? Rafel Barceló, text Aitana Carrasco, illustrations 19 x 23 cm | 36 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-938036-4-3 39 ILLUSTRATION DIPLOMA, BOOK & COVER DESIGN, TIPOGRAPHY, VISUAL 2010 WHITE RAVENS, 2011 JUNCEDA ILLUSTRATION, 2011 SECOND PRIZE TO THE BEST PUBLISHED BOOKS, SPAIN MINISTERY OF CULTURE, 2011 BEST ORIGINAL WORKS FOR TEENS, BANCO DEL LIBRO, VENEZUELA, 2012 FÁBULAS MORALES MORAL FABLES BEARDLESS FACES & BIRDS EN EL SILENCIO DEL BOSQUE / IN THE SILENCE TO COLOUR OF THE WOOD 23,5 x 16,5 cm | 64 pp & 48 pp | PB Grassa Toro, text Meritxell Duran, illustrations ISBN: 978-84-938036-7-4 ISBN: 978-84-938036-6-7 Cristina Pérez Navarro AMÉRICA / AMERICA PEQUEÑA PARKA LITTLE PARKA 16,5 x 23,4 cm | 96 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-937211-9-0 HUBO UN TIEMPO EN EL QUE EL CIELO ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE SKY Eduardo Solano, text Riki Blanco, illustrations 13,4 x 17,6 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-937211-7-6 Pere Ginard 17 x 16 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-937211-1-4 19,7 x 27 cm | 48 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-938036-1-2 Arianna Squilloni, text Arianne Faber, illustrations 13,4 x 17,6 cm | 40 pp | HB ISBN: 978-84-937211-3-8