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Mateo y su gato rojo, 2010. Editorial Del Naranjo by Silvina Rocha & LucĂa Mancilla Prieto
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Activity book age: 3+ 28 x 28 cm
Skill Collection By María Teresa de la Vega Magnetic fish game: To develop synchronized ability to hands, eyes and movement. Numbers tree: Game of association between quantity and its numeric representation. Colors Ballons: This game allows to recognize the colors through the ability to appoint, to identify and combine them. Assemble your face: Game to identify the parts of the face, mouth, eyes, ears, nose and its location.
Picture book age: 3+ 21 x 21 cm 24 pages
A Sleep By Iñaki Echevarría
Sometimes we play, run, jump, read, draw, danced, sang BUT AT THE END WE ALL ... to sleep. Themes: bed time
10 shepps 9 dinosaurs
Picture book age: 3+ 14 x 16 cm 24 pages
Maria Jolibert A book to count down from 10 do 1 all kind of animals that, if we don’t take care, could disappear one day.
The Scarf By Laurie Cohen Illustrated by Marjorie BĂŠal Leo has a big project: to knit the longest scarf in the world. Gradually his friends join him and put the hands on. It will be sure that from now on nobody will be cold.
Themes: early recognition, smart kids, cognitive development.
Picture book age: 3+ 14 x 16 cm 24 pages
Picture book age: 3+ 14 x 16 cm 24 pages
Fasoldofa By BĂĄrbara MartĂnez The music softens manners and give color to life. Tonight like every night, the city dresses of black and grey. But something is afoot, the bird expected his friends for a rehearsal. Ast he music spreads the town turns. In the morning, everyone goes home until the next rehearsals.
Themes: Rehearsals, music Picture book age: 3+ 21 x 21 cm 24 pages
Sweet Love By Sandra Poirot-Cherif A mother speaks to her unborn child. With tender words, she told him what she feels and how much it is expected. Drawn in, animals take care of their young and accompany the words of this universal mother. Throughout the pages, days pass and the belly of the Earth more and more rounds. Time is suspended and immerses us in this sweet and happy period preceding the arrival of a baby. Themes: Pregnancy, tenderness
For you
Picture book age: 3+ 14 x 16 cm 24 pages
By Christos Ortiz Illustrated by Sandrine Gambart A big hairy bear, clawed, capable of pulling off a forest to devour the world, can also be tender , even when he doubts about the best atittude to adopt to protect his puppies.
Themes: bear, famliy Picture book age: 3+ 14 x 21 cm 24 pages
Anaconda C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
By Claudia Rueda
Do you know something of the anaconda living in the river?
Picture book age: 3+ 21 x 21 cm 36 pages
That By Claire Garralon
The toddlers know invent thousand stories with little objects ! Thèmes : fantasy, reading
Picture book age: 3+ 14 x 16 cm 24 pages
A touch of color ... By Laurie Cohen illustrated by Marjorie Béal A blank page fills up, a touch of color after another...
The same collection: ah! | un secret tout rond | compter avec un monstre | Chatouilles | Dans mon coeur, il y a …| Dis t’as vu? | si le caiman | et Pourquoi? La girafe…| J’aime …| oh! | oulala! | Petit crabe méchant | | si le caïman…| trop, c’est trop | le goutêr | Zélie au zoo | l’écharpe | 10 moutons 9 dinosaures | Pour Toi | Une touche de...
Picture book age: 3+ 15 x 15 cm 12 pages
Fanfold books By Iñaki Echevarría Maria Laura Caruso Un Brazo tan Largo ( A so long arm) and Una Sorpresa Enorme (A Huge Surprise) were designed for the beginner readers in a leporello format, activating their curiosity for what comes on as they unfold the pages of the books.
Themes: surprise Picture book age: 4+ 17 x 17 cm 26 pages
Quack the Duckling By Gusti Two friends, different opinions and funny situations. A black and white story with a “peculiar” touch of color and great amounts of silliness. Friendship is the best thing that could ever happen to anyone. Themes: friendship, duckling, humor
Picture book age: 4+ 14 x 20 cm 40 pages
Tell me you By Jorh llustrated by Iñaki Echevarría This book proposes a way to invite reading from the emotional, from the desire to recover stories, enjoy them, to know them and to count with their own voices. We hope that children wishing words, await the perceive? For incorporation into their own narrative. Themes: bed time
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 21 cm 24 pages
Returns By María Laura Caruso llustrated by Iñaki Echavarría As beautiful as hectic and surprising way that can lead to start and start and start ... Themes: motrix development
Picture book age: 4+ 16 x 16 cm 32 pages
Where are you? By Geraldine Collet Illustrated by Claire Garralon The adventures of a ladybug who´s footsteps you must follow in the with the index page by page . The same collection: Of all the colors, Follow me! Themes: motrix development
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
The baby king By María Laura Dedé illustrated by Patricia López Latour Baby King has plenty attention, care, toys, mimes ... The whole family at his feet! For what else serves a crown, no? Of course there are crowns and crowns, and some weigh too much ...
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
Is Mr. Wolf there? By Jaqueline Romero Illustrated by Laura Aguerrebehere A game that becomes song, a song that becomes a tale and the magic of the forest that hides the Wolf. ¿Is Mr. Wolf there? If you dare, come to play in the woods ...
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
The Lala’s sheeps by Silvana Rocha Illustrated by Eugenia Nobati It’s time to sleep, but Lala doesn’t sleep. What can she does? “Count the sheeps”, tell her mother. “Are not the same to count giraffes or buttons?” Think Lala. Maybe of course, but Lala count many sheeps with her own way...
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
The Endless House By Martín Blasco Illustrated by Mima Castro Lola and Yafar want to build a huge house, different, nothing to do with houses that we all know. And begin their work with a room to store things they like more; and go on with many more rooms, so that eventually they no longer know what to do with such a house.
Toucan learns a word
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
By Márgara Averbach llustrated by Viviana Bilotti Toucan that has never heard a human word in his whole life in the jungle, face two words he can´t understand ´tóu´ and ´can´. To understand them may be help him to recover his freedom. Highly Recommended, Fundalectura (Ibby - Colombia), 2012 SOLD: Brazil
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
Is this dog yours? By José Sanabria Illustrated by Jimena Tello During a walk with his mother, Victor finds a dog. Has the dog being lost? Have someone abandoned it? Victor cares, and wants to know to whom the dog belongs, but… he could not imagine that owner could be so close ...! Awards: Special Mention: 26º Concurso “Los libros mejor impresos y editados en la Argentina”, 2013
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
Smile! By Gastón Hauviller
The prestigious magazine “Watch the birdie” has sent TO the jungle their best photographer for the purpose of portraying African robin of the queue of seven colors. But what he doesn’t know is that he must photograph all birdie’s friends, several exotic and colorful species, which will take him to live a rugged end. Themes: photographer , jungle
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
Hilaria, my grangranma By Marcela Calderón
Magic exists, no doubt. A rainy afternoon can be magical through the hands and stories of someone special. Hilaria’s great-grandmother is someone very special. Someone able to bewitch through words and images.
Picture book age: 4+ 20 x 26 cm 24 pages
Bathroom By Mariana Massarani From a situation so common in our daily lives - bathing – Mariana Massarani creates a narrative in which imagination and adventure give a special touch to the story. Edson, Edilson, Edmilson and Ednalva, the four sons of Marilene, enjoy bath time to dive into the world of fantasy and make this moment a great fun. The book also provides a rich visual language reading, because the images created are carriers of meaning, carry a potential of meanings.
Themes: bath time
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
The Vainilla Prince and the chocolat princess By Norma Huidoro Illustrated by Nancy Fiorini In the Blue kingdom everybody were blue, except the princess who turned brown for eating a lot of chocolate. And in the Rosado realm everybody was pink, except the prince, who eat a lot of dessert with vanilla and became light yellow. They were happy with their colors, but the others ... Others, not so much. A blue only liked the blue, and pink, pink. Who would be in love with the prince and princess ...?
Picture book age: 4+ 15 x 17 cm 26 pages
Once upon a time, uncertainly By Paola Bossio Our lives are paths full of intertwined traces through time . The joy surrounds us when we feel accompanied, while sadness is present in times of absence. The perfection of existence lies in the uncertainty, while we go over the time to come to an understanding and reconciliation with ourselves.
Themes: love, friendship
Picture book age: 4+ 29 x 21 cm 44 pages
Weathervanes By Marcela Calderón Beautiful sky of Ushuaia, idented by the magic weathervanes that the wind makes turn, whales, ponys, swallows and a man on a bycicle... A poetry and wearthervanes.
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
How I spent my vacations at countryide By Graciela Repún llustrated by Patricia López Latour
My grandmother, when she was young, was very absent ...“ So begins this book. In addition, the grandmother was very funny and did things, like her granddaughter, who is the girl who tells this story and that somewhat resembles her grandmother ... Why is that?
Picture book age: 4+ 29x 21cm 36 pages
Fosfoletes By María Gabriela Belziti Illustrated by Lucía Mancilla A little girl and her big new house, where she arrives with her family. There are books in the house, his daddy reads bedtime stories to her, she is happy, plays with her fosfoletes and dolls, but one night, something changes and her happiness is disturbed.
Picture book age: 4+ 29 x 31 cm 36 pages
Onions Lullaby By Miguel Hernández Illustrated by Matías Acosta “ Your laughter frees me, gives me wings. You take solitude out, prison you pull out.” This beautiful and at the same time pungent poem was written by Spanish poet Miguel Hernández while in prison during the Spanish Civil War, for his newborn son. Message of faith in life, besides pain and injustices. Awards: Premio Destacados Alija 2013, Rescate Editorial. Primero Premio, Categoría Infantil y Juvenil: 26º Concurso “Los libros mejor impresos y editados en la Argentina”, 2013
Picture book age: 4+ 29 x 21 cm 40 pages
The Crowned Rabbit By Martín Domecq illustrated by Marcela Calderón Silence into the white forest. Snow pops among the pines, rabbits. Among rocks and bushes, they run under the moon. Where do they go? Towards a secret fire.
Picture book age: 4+ 29 x 21 cm 40 pages
Songs from water By Márgara Averbach llustrated by Alejandra Karageorgiu “The song once looked upon a sea lion pup’s sweet eyes playing with his brothers and sank suddenly like a sonorous water whirlwind.”
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
The potatos tortilla By Sandra Siemens illustrated by Claudi Degliuomini Sebastiana wanst to make an omelet, but has neither an egg. Then goes out shopping. And buys and buys ... everything except eggs. And goes out again and again to buy and ...
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
Mandarines Buds By Laura Quir贸s llustrated by Natalia Colombo World of fantasies, small and subtle, inhabit these mandarin oranges. Bears, hippos, zebras, frogs, moons with cherry taste, threads of sun go, come, mingle in mandarin slices and become poems. Each slice, a poem.
Picture book age: 4+ 23 x 20 cm 28 pages
Tabaski sheep By Arnaud Rodamel Illustrated by VĂŠronique Vernette Fadie, eight years old, accompanied her uncle to the market to buy a sheep, future feast of Tabaski (the name given to the festival of Eid al-Adha in the West African countries). Alas, nothing goes as planned, that the sheep escapes...
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
There is a monster below my bed By Liliana Cinetto illustrated by LucĂa Mancilla Prieto It seems that there are many kinds of monsters. Some are huge; others not so much. Some are scary, while others are shy and are in search of love. In terms of monsters, there is everything; even those who hide under beds!
Picture book age: 4+ 22 x 29 cm 28 pages
The Silliest country By DIPACHO illustrations Paula Ortiz and DIPACHO In a very near country, everybody want the same thing, that drives them crazy and lose their heads. Thay fight for it an nothing is more important that this endless fight. A classic picture-book, with exquisite illustrations .
Picture book age: 4+ 21 x 28 cm 40 pages
It could be worse squab By Cucho Cu単o
Squab fell from his nest: wet, muddy... he feels very lonely, very sad... until finally he discovers that sometimes unexpectedly, he receive a proof of love.
The most ferocious animal
Picture book age: 4+ 23 x 23 cm 36 pages
By DIPACHO Some people say: the tiger is the most ferocious animal, but other ones believe the crocodrile is much ferocious animal in the world, and we could be appointing a lot of the other ferocious animals. Dipacho’s book will clear any doubt and will tell us which is the most ferocious of all. A story exquisitely illustrated. Rights sold: France
Picture book age: 4+ 23 x 23 cm 36 pages
All are joke By DIPACHO
No one is free from someone’s mockery: The small, the big, the fat, the thin, the beautiful, the ugly, the tall, the low, and so on. Dipacho develops this idea brilliantly with his exquisite illustrations. Righs sold: Brazil
Picture book age: 5+ 17 x 24.5 cm pages
The eat palms monster By DIPACHO The eat palms monster is insatiable. He eats all kind of palms, of all colors and all flavors. He indeed likes very much. But you can’t imagine because he likes it so much. Do you want to know why? A contemporaneous fable about the destruction of the forests, exquisitely illustrated.
Picture book age: 5+ 17 x 17 cm 26 pages
Emma and Juan By Amalia SatizĂĄbal Emma and John are very different; they have nothing in common apart from a beautiful friendship. John lives a life in black and white, but your peace of mind will be interrupted by Emma, a curious Tigress of colors that will change you the life. This book reminds us that opposites attract.
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 32 cm 40 pages
Fragile By Agnès Domergue Illustrated by Lydie Sabourin In the shade of a tree, an old man expresses his regret to have , in his eagerness to achieve his dreams neglected to take care of the Earth . A hopeful dialogue is tied with the child playing near him. Thèmes : environmental , transmission, creation , theater.
Picture book age: 5+ 26 x 21.5 cm 46 pages
Funny’s families By Catherine Leblanc Illustrated by Manon Gauthier
Tender and funny portraits of today’s families: traditional families, composite families, single parent families, adoptive families... Thèmes : families, diversity, tenderness
• Catherine also highlights the foundation of the family beyond family ties : love and its tightness, the play of similarities and differences; • Original artwork and cheerful Manon Gauthier teem with full funny details. A treat !
Picture book age: 5+ 23 x 29 cm 32 pages
The night By Ingrid Seithumer Illustrated by Parastou Haqi Every night Gabin has an appointment with the night. We waits it with impatience, mixed with a little bit of fear that it repaints the colors of the garden and begins a new dialogue with de sun, the flowers, the birds… Themes: night, sunset, imaginary
Mateo and his red cat
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 23 cm 32 pages
By Silvina Rocha Illustrated by Lucía Mancilla Prieto A book of plain white sheets that invites one to draw was given to Mateo as a gift. And Matthew draws. Draws a red and happy cat. But the days go by and the cat loses its smile. Mateo cares and add pictures in way his cat is happy again. But he realizes that this is not the solution. Finally he finds it. Awards: Premio Accésit: 23º Concurso “Los Libros Mejor Impresos y Editados en la Argentina”, 2010 Premio Destacados Alija, 2010 Sold: Brasil
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 28 cm 30 pages
Things that Frankie Likes By Berta Piñan Illustrated by Antonia Santolaya
Things that Frankie Likes is a tale where Carlota, the girl, is seemingly talking about her mummy and her mummy’s boyfriend, Frankie.
Themes: family Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 28 cm 40 pages
New colors By Fran Nuño Illustrated by Natalia Colombo What’s behind the eyes of a blind child? A brilliant mind. Nuevos colores is the story of a painter and his strange gadget, one that took colours from people’s minds. The artist had travelled the world with his machine searching for something new for painting… but no trace, nothing. They had almost lost hope until the moment they found two eyes that had never seen before. Themes:colors, mind
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 28 cm 40 pages
Picture book age: 5+ 28.5 x 31 cm 36 pages
Miss Valid: The Girl who Collects Words By Carmen Minguez Illustrated by Natalia Colombo
Lidia was born deaf and fell in love with words. Her room was full of the most beautiful words: mamá, papá, besos, juguetes, amor… (mum, dad, kisses, toys, love…). It was odd to see how the words came to life in her room. When I met her, she was carrying a big castigo (punishment) in capital letters to the trash can. And I, a street cat who didn’t know how to read or write, didn’t want to leave her side. Now that I have learned just enough, I want to tell you her story. Themes: words, deafness
Neighbors By Roger Mello, Graça Lima, Mariana Massarani Neighbor, neighbor shows what separates and what unites people in the metropolis. On the street of Disquiet, 38, the neighborhood is quiet well. In apartment 101, a boy reading comic books, drink coffee and build a city paper. Neither realizes the rumor of neighboring 102, who plays clarinet, creates a rhino under the sink and collects old books and things. They only see themselves in the late afternoon, when they meet in the hall, exchange greetings and talk time. Then things will settle in the city - and soon are back to their lumber, and fads saved. How will escape from loneliness?
Themes: neighbor, family, lystyle
Picture book age: 5+ 22 x 18 cm 32 pages
Lunchtime By Géraldine Collet illustrations by Estelle Billon-Spagnol What happens when a pack of wolves meets a herd of sheep? Will they be able to negotiate to avoid a fight Strong points • Laughter on every page! • A short text written in a lively and jubilant style; • An original, fun and richly detailed graphic style; • An easy-to-handle size;
Picture book age: 5+ 27 x 21 cm 24 pages
Maria Teresa By Roger Mello An epic and lyric poem steeped in emotion, fantasy, fiction and reality. The memories of a traditional carved figurehead, mounted on the prow of a vessel that ploughs the waters of the São Francisco river,whose appearance is a dubious be half woman, half animal, and, according to tradition, its presence on the bow of the craft amazes the “evil spirits” and brings luck to mariners ... The heroine of this story / poem - Maria Teresa - collects stories. To hear them, just slide in the blue pages of this book.The spacious panorama illustrations capture Maria Teresa’s dramatic fantasies and the colorful life on the river.
Picture book age: 5+ 19.5 x 19.5cm 18 pages
Jumping C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
By Olga Cuéllar
Funny, witty, nonsensical and joyous picture book involving the reader in the game of jump rope: Jumping jumps is joined by various animals, infected by the joy of the protagonist, are integrated into the activity. This book for children will immediately attract readers, because it is based on the typical play of children: bring objects and characters by integrating them and linking them together in various scenarios. SOLD: Vasque
Picture book age: 5+ 16 x 22 cm 72 pages
My pet By Yolanda Reyes llustrated by Rafael Yockteng ¿Which is the best pet for a child? Which pet is capable of doing everything a child wants it to do, when the child asks it to do it? Yolanda Reyes
The funny verses written by Yolanda Reyes, with the watercolors by Rafael Yockteng, will uncover the mystery...
Picture book age: 5+ 20 x 22.5cm 46 pages
A story is not an invention C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
By Yolanda Reyes illustrations by Gabriela Rubio
This story is not a tale, is real life. It happens anytime and almost anywhere.
Picture book age: 5+ 22 x 29 cm 36 pages
Sun Pen By Isabelle Wlodarzcyk llustrated by Hajnalka Cserháti “Sun pen” necessary to make an inventory of the joys, real or invented, and to play with ideas, sounds, diversion of meaning and other pranks.
Themes: language games, vocabulary, imagination
The red bull
Picture book age: 5+ 20 x 20 cm 22 pages
By DIPACHO
Red Bull doesn’t like absolutely anything. He doesn’t love anybody. He doesn’t like the the monochromatic tone of his life. We don’t know what the Red Bull wants. He is a tough character.
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 28 cm 40 pages
Away to the eyes , close in the heart By Enrique Lara , Luis Fernando García
The whispers of the wind are sung by the trees. How many forests have been operating in our eyes? It up and down, here and there, far away; perhaps very closely. In the vastness of the universe many souls share a blue planet where time is an instant... forever. Themes:dreams, mind
Picture book age: 5+ 25 x 25 cm 28 pages
Once upon a time one bird By Gastón Hauviller Illustrated by DIPACHO The birds are in a party, or maybe, some birds are in a party disguised of birds in a party. This party will finish when the last one decides to rest. A classic picture-book, with exquisite illustrations .
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 17 cm 40 pages
Sauvage By Roger Mello Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Roger builds a meta-linguistic visual narrative. Who creates? How and from what is it created? A stroll through different rooms, different jungles, different forms... These are spaces where we are led by the pages and which take us to the enchanted world of literature: of a story that we build from our own imagination. The author provides us with some aesthetic elements, extremely well placed in the book, and now the reader must wend his way through a jungle, a house, and come across hordes of other animals. Discover what literature may give us, in a book with no text, but one that is artistically whole in images.
Picture book age: 5+ 23.5 x 15.5 cm 48 pages
Joäo by a thread By Roger Mello John is the son of a fisherman and sleeps under ahand-stitched quilt. At night, after he lies down, thoughts roll loose: shells, rivers, tadpoles, fish nets, songs, ridges, cloths, buttonholes, earthquakes. Roger Mello invites us for a dive in dreams and fears that fill the night of the little boy. Exquisite text and gorgeous illustrations, inspired by the plots of Brazilian embroidery.
Picture book age: 6+ 23 x 22 cm 32 pages
A field of stones
By Nadine Brun-Cosmel lustrated by Sandra Poirot-Cherif Story as a tale. “There are Jules, at each , their father had given a field, The same”... Theres is a field, there are the stones and these two brothers so differents in their way of undestanding the life, the time running... Jean who fight and enrage. Jules posing on the world his look of wool.
Themes: Feelings, attitudes
Cat Viriato collection
Picture book age: 5+ 21 x 28 cm 24 pages
By Roger Mello The Viriato cat is a very fun and intelligent character, who lives four different adventures and gets into lots of trouble. Friendship, fear, art - in all senses - and especially love are the themes of the stories. In all, the images allow the small reader count and recount the adventures of Viriato, creating their own version. The same collection: • O gato viriato fazendo arte • O gato viriato o encontro • O gato viriato o pato • O gato viriato um vaso louco
Picture book age: 7+ 21 x 21 cm 24 pages
Collection classic tales Adaptation María Laura Caruso llustrated by Iñaki Echevarría Puss in boats, The pied pipper of Hamelin, the night walker, Classic tales adapted to shorter times with AUGMENTED REALITY Themes: classic tales
Picture book age: 8+ 22 x 30 cm 32 pages
The giant’s story By Anne Herbaut By all campaigns said that the giant was beautiful. Collapsed, seemingly there fragile in stature immensely useless, he had lost none of his force. Instead, the pain still gave him grandeur. And his humility before the injury inspired a deep respect. The tides of forests brought his groan by wind waves. The text of Anne Herbauts flows as a complaint and her oil paintings invade the pages. The book progresses from black to gold and the tale, at once poetic, light and grandiose, tells us that it is possible to fall out of love and to stand up in the light, maybe, happy surely.
Picture book age: 8+ 27 x 21.8 cm 60 pages
Young charcoal burners By Roger Mello In a poetic and original form, the history of a carcoal burner boy is narrated by an unusual narrator: a wasp. While going reporting its own experiences, he observes the daily life of the child: the hard work of making furnaces, conversations with another boy, the need to escape the tax controller. The expressive author’s illustrations capture withsensitivity and strength the hard and gray life of these little workers.
Picture book age: 8+ 30 x 21.5 cm 21 pages
Who was it? By Magdalena Armstrong Can you imagine what would happen if you roll the trash anywhere? Do you know how it affects people, animals and nature that we litter our environment? How our actions affect all beings that share our planet? The simple act of throwing an object by mistake in the wrong place brings with it a host of unexpected consequences. The enormous difference between the neglect with the Earth, “our big house” and its protection, depends on the lives of many, of all, of every being live in the universe.
Picture book age: 8+ 20 x 24 cm 36 pages
Embroullaminis By Marie-Laure Alvarez illustrations by Hajnalka Cserháti
Lilouane likes to travel over to her thoughts, under the gaze of grandma who watched her little girl inventing stories. But, sometimes, the wire is tied, the thoughts intertwine ... Lilouane has then the need of a link of friendship for the help to disentangle. During this time, a wire of knitted wool socks, and a story is woven.
... and the rain
Picture book age: 8+ 23 x 16.5 cm 40 pages
By Roberto Sánchez Cajicá
What happens if you sleep in the middle of a storm? Themes: rain, ecology disaster.
Picture book age: 8+ 21 x 28 cm 40 pages
Why crabs does travel? By Denise Ganitsky & Juan Guillermo Rojas Illustrated by José Aguilar A history of migrants, victims of nature and the armed conflict, rooting and uprooting. Themes: ecology disaster, imigration, war
Picture book age: 8+ 25 x 35 cm 28 pages
The Leap year people By DIPACHO Each four years there is a leap year. This leap year has a special day, the February 29th. People that are born in this day are little bit different from other others. Let’s know some of them! the book with exquisite illustrations .
Picture book age: 8+ 21 x 28 cm 28 pages
C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
Green fridays By DIPACHO
A classic picture-book, with exquisite illustrations . The composition of the narrative takes place in a simple language where words are incorporated as a story with a tongue-twister that mixes elements of the image.
The coat
Picture book age: 8+ 22 x 22 cm 34 pages
By Andrea SĂĄnchez Zuluaga
Julia lives in the moon. Every day something new forget: her glasses, her umbrella and even the rain boots! On your journey through memory, she has an inseparable companion which would give the key to conjure her forgetfulness. This book is to read, play and enjoy. It contains a poster to color and share the best memories.
Picture Book age: 8+ 21x 28 cm 32 pages
The Bass Alberti C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
By Ana Cecilia Calle llustrated by DIPACHO
A musical tale for the whole family. Alberti was a noisy child who belched like a bear. From time to roar, and he knows it, he was singing was very bass.
Picture book age: 8+ 19 x 26 cm 36 pages
Two sisters By Nadine Brun-Cosme Illustrated by Camille Nicolle A little girl who wants to discover the world, her older sister who wants to protect her, thinking she has all the time ahead. Simple and carefully chosen words deliver a fair and sincere emotion. This book deals with a painful topic, the disease and the disappearance of a child. Themes: death, famliy, disease, love
Picture book age: 8+ 21 x 28 cm 40 pages
Women of all time biographies for children Isadora Duncan, Virginia Wolf, Carmen MartĂn Gaite, Maria Zambrano, Maruja Mallo, Gloria Fuertes.
The Spanish Publishing House Hotel Papel developed a collection for readers from 7 years up dedicated to some of the important women that transcended the 20th Century and still go on influencing the new generations in art, literature, philosophy, dance. Bilingual Edition: Spanish/English Themes: women’s life, biographies
A lonely stork collection
Fiction Young reader age: 7+ 19 x 11 cm 64 pages C o l l e c t i o n
Seven Stories on various themes with adventure, humor and friendship, in which the word and image enrich the stories. The Bestsellers: Sapo azul and la bruja hermelinda Featured authors: Liliana Cinetto.
A white door collection
Fiction Young reader age: 11+ 19.5 x 13.5 cm 96 pages
Eleven Tales and Novels on various themes with adventures, mysteries, police, love and friendship by well-known authors. C o l l e c t i o n
The Bestsellers: Naím y el mago fugitivo, Confesiones de un vampiro, Te espero en la plaza. Featured authors: Norma Huidoro, Márgara Averbach, Liliana Cinetto, Verónica Sukaczer, Olga Drennen.
Collection Sub20
Fiction Young reader age 9+ 20 x 13.5cm 64 pages C o l l e c t i o n
Fiction Young Reader 12.5 x 21.5 cm 96 pages
Collection sub 20 : ninety stories by well-known authors, varied theme, where alternate suspense, mystery, humor and tenderness. From age 9 collection white door - tale and novel - fiction by well-known authors. Adventures, mysteries, police, love and friendship. The Bestsellers: los enigmas del inspector Ramírez, La casa de la viuda, Las aventuras de Sebastián Holmes, el misterio de la mansión Embrujada. Featured authors in the collection: Norma Huidoro, Liliana Cinetto, Márgara Averbach, Mario Méndez, María Brandán Aráoz, Martín Blasco.
Sixth Grade B Terror by Yolanda Reyes Illustrated by Daniel Rabanal
It gives the impression that adults do not remember their exams, their homework or their bad notes ... The stories in this book are not as sweet as those that have parents. Moreover, some deserve a zero in conduct. Therefore It is best to stay away this book of adults. It’s advice.
1994 Award “Noveles Talentos de Fundalectura”. Fundalectura Colombia 1996 Honorary mention “Los mejores libros para niños ”. Banco del Libro de Venezuela. 1997 Honor List White Ravens. Internationale Jugendbibliothek, Germany
The terribles Years
Fiction Young reader 14 x 21 cm 240 pages
by Yolanda Reyes
Y o l a n d a
Fiction Young reader 13.5 x 20.5 cm 176 pages
R e y e s
Valeria, Juliana and Lucia are raw sisters of the same age. In this prodigious novel, they tell the bittersweet transit from childhood to adolescence and adulthood, the three protagonists of this novel speak of their desires, their aspirations and their problems during “ the terrible years� of adolescence. Young readers can be very easily identified with situations and characters and will learn about tolerance, love and value.
The Magician in trainning by Evelio Rosero llustrated by RocĂo Parra Eight tales perfectly well illustrated leading the readers to a series of encounters among everyday characters, and amazing and astonishing beings: a humble mailman who builds a tight relationship with an emotional skeleton who has shared a long time with Cleopatra and Napoleon during his eternal death; a boy who has fallen in love and makes a pact with a wicked little devil; a seven-headed monster who owns the secret to the place where a giant treasure is buried; a young baker who wants to become the pupil of the best magician in the World.
Fiction Young reader 12 x 20 cm 64 pages
Fiction Young Reader 12.5 x 21.5 cm 96 pages
The black holes by Yolanda Reyes In the evenings, Juan is afraid. It attempts to rebuild the black holes that don’t let him sleep since he saw his parents for the last time. His grandmother does not want to talk about to protect him. But he needs to know the truth that will launch him in a search that will take him to the heart of the forest and his own history. “As I’ve spent so many years sharing stories with children, I know that we must talk about the hard times and I think that both children and adults, we need to name things that most hurt us, precisely because they hurt us”, says Yolanda Reyes.
Oviparous Stories C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
by María Inés McCormick llustrated by Henry González
Don Gilberto took off from the shirt pocket the magnifiers that he used to read the newspaper and examined the kid from above to below. He counted the toes and the fingers, reviewed the eyes, nose and mouth, approached to the ear to hear the heart beat and by whining, there was no doubt that the lungs were working well. The Plump driver straightened again, let out a long sigh, and with the left hand suddenly scratched the chin. From where had it came out? Why it was born from an egg? Who was his mother? Who was his father? Questions sprang into his head and certainties were in short supply. What to do now? Who could help? To go to the police? To the hospital? to get a doctor? Look for a farmer?
Picture book Young Reader 13 x 21.5 cm 80 pages
Change of Voice C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
By Irene Vasco
Irony, ingenuity and a touch of perverse humor accompanied of the six short stories that make up VOICE CHANGE. In this book, Irene Vasco takes readers from reality to fiction again and again. At times, it would seem pages of a beloved photo album in which we acknowledge, with a smile, several characters... and even ourselves, with no little relish. Themes: tales of daily life
Fiction Young reader 13.5 x 20.5 cm 176 pages
To get to heaven by Evelio Rosero llustrated by Michi PelĂĄez Child-like long story open to any type of reader. The fantastic element is added to a love story that makes it possible for readers at every age to enjoy it. The narrative technique used in this story is impeccable: it turns simplicity into an art to build the theme. This is a very simple text, full of creativity. It mentions local elements (a town, a farm house, beliefs, a stairway to Heaven, among others) to recreate original fantasy.
Fiction Young reader 13.5 x 21 cm 188 pages
Haunt of Ghost by Francisco Leal Quevedo llustrated by Carlos Manuel Díaz It is a story told by four voices, a child (Lalo) with his pet, a dog named Matthew (as the neighbor and his son), a girl (Laura) and her cat, Luna. All tell from their point of view, the drama of Lalo, who believes that every night he must face the assault of 4 families of ghosts that have made his room their lair. To face them he has his imagination, a scarlet sword and the unexpected help of his sister.
Fiction Young reader 13.5 x 20.5 cm 76 pages
The Globin By Evelio Rosero llustrated by Michi Peláez A spell was cast on a kid by a female goblin in the middle of a field where the child lives with his grandparents and siblings. Throughout the years, the kid develops certain abilities like playing the flute magnificently and so, he is recognized in his community. In the meantime, life goes on; elders die —some in a weird way— kids grow, and the little bewitched boy starts to wonder about his own life. Romance shows up at the end of the story when he falls in love with the goblin personifying a girl.
Fiction Young reader 11.5 x 21 cm 64 pages
That’s so you By Evelio Rosero llustrated by Giovanni Cabrera The images of God and the devil, protagonists in this story, are not even closer to those we have read about in books on good and evil. These are human characters that get the flu, cry, laugh, and even feel as hungry as they feel like dancing and singing.
Fiction Young adult 17 x 24 cm 112 pages
Black 10 by Santiago Maisonnave llustrated by Iñaki Echeverría The traditions of Argentina and American cartoon police on the same wheel. The Buenos Aires periphery of the early twentieth century , the immensities of the pampas and Patagonia, the silence of a village or mottled jujeño inside a shantytown in Buenos Aires Tercentenary ... times and scenarios that are traversed by an invisible thread of crime and death. Because any place and any time is good to rescue the climate and the logic of the darkest kind.
Fiction Young reader 13.5 x 21 cm 200 pages
The egg of the end of the world By Francisco Leal Quevedo llustrated by Helena Mello The eternal snows of The End of the World seem to be full of great surprises. Often amazing scientific discoveries occur there. Soler decides to explore them, after a big storm that has shaken the Earth. Suddenly, hidden among the rocks, he finds a strange egg and it appears to be incubating an unusual being. What will it come from it? An exotic animal? An extinct animal? A fantastic bird? An ancient dinosaur? A mutant? Despite their investigations, the end is totally unexpected for Soler.
Fiction Young adult 17 x 24 cm 64 pages
Muffins By Iñaki Echeverría The story gets the transcendent moments of the life of a cook, who finds happiness in the scents of childhood. Like memories, this story is based on the pictorial. Iñaki Echeverria is an author of climates, achieves perfect combination dashed and Silences. A work that transcends language barriers.
Fiction Young adult 21 x 29 cm 84 pages
Winnipeg by Laura Martel llustrated by Antonia Santolaya On French soil, at the edge of a Europe that was approaching the start of the second world war, a poet, Pablo Neruda, waving the handkerchief from the farewell aware that that old defeated the Republic-laden boat was his best and most beautiful poem. The book chronicles what was that trip since the last barricade expired on Spanish soil until the hard and tiring coming to Trompeloup. Difficulties, passions, desires, fears and hopes that were shaken by the waves until the arrival to the Chilean port of Valparaíso on September 3, 1939.
Fiction Young adult 15 x 24 cm 315 pages
A passenger in transit by Yolanda Reyes María Fernanda del Castillo is a Colombian scholar who feels doubly foreigner when landing in an Argentine residence in Madrid. There, at the beginning of the 1980s, she meets Gabriel, a “dark” porteño with whom she initiates a relationship mediated by letters, by the necessity of living every moment and by the bittersweet feeling of goodbyes.
Fiction Young adult 14 x 23 cm 480 pages
Witch’s foot C h ildren ‘s books - Colombia
by Carolina Andújar
“Some girls are essentially good. Others are essentially bad. And then some others… well, others are essentially witches. You can’t change who you are.” Magic, superstition and intrigue intertwine in this story in which evil hides behind the veil of light, and true love arises in the dark. You won’t be able to escape Witch Foot’s spell. Themes: fantastic tales
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