Literature Catalogue 2015 by AZ International Publishing

A-Z INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING 2015

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A-Z We are an independent, award-winning publishing company based in Argentina, dedicated to children’s books, textbooks and education in general. We strongly believe that our books have the highest standards of creativity coupled with emphasis on the excellence of text and illustrations.

Since we started, back in 1976, untill today, we keep growing and working with the same passion for innovation and love for books. Inside our catalogue you’ll find the right book for every age, from babies to young adults, both fiction and non-fiction.

Our new brand of children’s literature

Twenty-five years after the publication of our first children’s book, we carry on walking a path full of satisfactions, and we are proud to have the authors and illustrators that make up our catalogue. Today, we still work on this cathegory with a team of specialists dedicated to children’s literature, for readers and specific educators with distinctive needs and demands.

+ ENERGY DYNAMISM

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+ INGENUITY PLAYFULNESS

CONSTRUCTION OF THE FUTURE

And to identify these books we present our new brand: an image whose concept communicates and enriches what we consider the essence of children’s books: to enhance imagination and encourage reading for pleasure.

Why is it a squirrel? Because squirrels convey the ideas of energy, dynamism, ingenuity, playfulness..., and also future: as they run and play, they make provision and spread seeds that become new trees.

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Let’s Travel!

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A funny look at the different means of transport. Original and beautiful illustrations accompany the poetry to stimulate creativity and imagination. Perfect for reading aloud to little children and for those who are just starting to read.

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Cars

Planes

Buses

Author: Mónica López Illustrator: Anita Morra

ISBN: 978-987-35-0189-0

ISBN: 978-987-35-0191-3

ISBN: 978-987-35-0225-5

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Mónica López was born in Buenos Aires. She is a teacher and an advertising agent. She graduated from Universidad del Salvador. She writes children and teen’s literature, and has been published by many publishing houses.

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Trains

Ships

Author: Mónica López Illustrator: Anita Morra

ISBN: 978-987-35-0190-6

ISBN: 978-987-35-0192-0

Anita Morra was born in Buenos Aires. She draws and paints since early childhood, but now her passion for illustrating is stronger. She is a graphic designer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. She studied different illustration techniques with the expert Oscar Rojas.

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Pook the Mouse and Pookie Pook and Pookie are two intrepid heroes who have amazing adventures in the least expected places. With warm and friendly illustrations that will appeal to the little children, these books are perfect for reading aloud and for those who are just starting to read.

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Go Hiking

In a Very Dark Hole

Author and illustrator: Nora Hilb

In the Swamp of a Thousand Colors

ISBN: 978-950-534-523-6

Author and illustrator: Nora Hilb

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Author and illustrator: Nora Hilb

ISBN: 978-950-534-524-3

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In the Sea of Surprises

In the Amusement Forest

In the Great Desert

Author and illustrator: Nora Hilb

ISBN: 978-950-534-526-7

ISBN: 978-987-35-0093-0

ISBN: 978-987-35-0094-7

Nora Hilb was born in Argentina. She graduated as a kindergarten teacher. She always liked drawing, and she was able to do it, sometimes for animated films and other times for a graphic design studio. But her dream was to illustrate

children's books, a dream that she made come true with humor and tenderness. She has illustrated many books for kids, in our country and abroad. She also writes her own stories.

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Discovering Imagination Age 3+ Capital letters

Poetry has always had a special effect on the little children’s sensibility. The simple verse of Diana Briones and the wonderful Nora Hilb's illustrations will delight both children and adults alike. This series is a great way to develop essential language and early reading skills.

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Of Houses and Other Things

Miniature World

Chocolate Bar Wrapper

Author: Diana Briones Illustrator: Nora Hilb

ISBN: 978-950-534-924-1

ISBN: 978-950-534-926-5

ISBN: 978-950-534-925-8

Diana Briones was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires. She is a primary teacher and a music teacher (she loves conducting children choirs). She was an assistant director of mime

theatre productions. In addition, she is an editor and author of textbooks. She also writes novels, poems and stories for kids.

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Pictograms To catch the attention and stimulate the imagination: three attractive stories illustrated with pictograms. Children will delight in deciphering the story, reading words and images. Each book includes the dictionary of pictures.

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The Biggest Bubble in the World

Gus, the Little Worm

Milagros Has a Donkey

Author: Diana Briones Illustrator: Gastón Hauviller

Gus, the little worm, begins the first trip of his life. His body stretches and piles itself again and again. The road is long and dangerous but Gus knows how to fly his way to the end.

Donkeys have always been in stories, like Sancho Panza’s donkey, the donkey of the Town Musicians of Bremen, Platero… But we were missing one: Milagros’ donkey. This book introduces you to her.

ISBN: 978-987-35-0099-2

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Author: Diana Briones Illustrator: Gastón Hauviller Making bubbles is easy. Some time of blowing and blowing, and then we will find ourselves surrounded by a cloud of fresh bubbles that bursts into a thousand drops. However, playing with the biggest bubble in the world is a very different story. Here, we tell it. ISBN: 978-987-35-0098-5

Diana Briones was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires. She is a primary teacher and a music teacher (she loves conducting children choirs). She was an assistant director of mime theatre productions. In addition, she is an editor and author of textbooks. She also writes novels, poems and stories for kids. Gastón Hauviller is an illustrator and author of children’s literature. He studied at the “Villa Mecenas” Fine Arts Workshop, at the "Sótano Blanco" Art School and at the artist Roberto Gatti's workshop. He is a member of the Forum of Argentinian Illustrators.

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Calligrams Age 6+

Words that are drawn; drawings that can be read.

Calligrams Author: Diana Briones In this book, Diana Briones gets back the ancient art of the calligram, and the result is a remarkable anthology of the works that she has been doing for a long time. A unique and fascinating work that invites you to write drawing (or draw writing). An ideal book to develop early reading and writing skills. ISBN: 978-987-35-0100-5

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Look and Say Through words and images, children who are learning to read plunge into fabulous stories about colors, numbers, shapes, time, opposites, vowels, senses, space and jobs.

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I Want to Win this Contest

Author’s Work

Author and illustrator: Istvansch

A Story to Read after Playing All Day

About numbers and art.

Author and illustrator: Istvansch

About colors and how a book is done.

ISBN: 950-534-909-8

About shapes and daily situations.

ISBN: 950-534-458-9

Author and illustrator: Istvansch

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Zoo

The Brave Cat’s Week

A Hard to Believe Story

Author and illustrator: Istvansch

About opposites and fun facts of nature.

About time and exploration.

About vowels, senses and expressions.

ISBN: 950-534-459-7

ISBN: 950-534-837-1

ISBN: 950-534-838-X

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All about John Author and illustrator: Istvansch About places and jobs. ISBN: 950-534-898-5

We Can All Draw Author and illustrator: Istvansch An invitation to play the creative game of drawing. Because drawing is a game that we can all play. Look at your hand. Do you know that it has magical powers? Move it here, move it there, move it slowly and then fast. Did anything magical happen? Do you say no? Take a pencil and repeat the same exercise on a paper. You’ve just

drawn no less than your movements! That’s extraordinary, isn’t it? Do you say that everyone could do it? I say no, because that work you did on that paper is exclusively yours. But I say yes too, because we can all draw.

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Istvansch was born in Madrid. He is an illustrator, a graphic designer, a writer and and director of children’s books series. He is cofounder of the Forum of Argentinian Illustrators. He coordinated slots dedicated to illustrated books in TV and radio. On several times

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his books have been included in ALIJA’s List of Honor (in Spanish, Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina). He has published many books in Argentina, Mexico, France, Spain, Switzerland, Colombia, USA, Korea and the UAE.

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Making Toys and Drawing! These colorful books are perfect for encouraging little artists to create toys, paint or invent images with paper and scissors. The ideas are original and the instructions are easy to follow with photos and step-by-step directions. To play alone, with friends or with the family. To create toys, draw, paint or cut, in the plane or with volume. In white and black or with different colors. Using pencils, paints or waste materials, but always putting the imagination into play.

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The Train

The City

The Pirate Island

Author and illustrator: Istvansch

Drive your own train, with the locomotive and the different cars through the railways, the platforms and much more!

Kids will see buses, cars and planes with people on them, going through the streets, houses and buildings in the city they have built.

With the pirate hat and patch on, sable in hand and on board of their own galleon, each child will create and live their own adventure.

ISBN: 978-987-35-0037-4

ISBN: 978-987-35-0038-1

ISBN: 978-987-35-0036-7

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Scissors and Paper

Lines and Colors

Characters and Expressions

Author and illustrator: Istvansch

Pencil, paper, scissors and glue; draw, cut and paste. The clippings get volume and incredible shapes and figures turn up.

Short, long, thick, thin, straight, curved, zigzag lines, simple and complex. Get ready! Different compositions will always appear.

An entire universe of characters with different expressions: happiness, sadness, fear or anger. And lots of fun ideas to play with doodles and shadows.

ISBN: 978-987-35-0040-4

ISBN: 978-987-35-0041-1

ISBN: 978-987-35-0039-8

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Little Artists A fun way to get the interest in art and creativity moving. With theoretical content and practical proposals, this series is a great resource for teachers. Ideal to be used to enhance Art lessons across the curriculum and to inspire children to create their own artwork that can be stored in the book, as a folder. Each page introduces different techniques and well-known paintings and their famous creators.

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Little Artists 1 Author: Analía Jaureguialzo Illustrator: Laura Michell ISBN: 978-950-534-919-7

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Little Artists 2

Little Artists 3

Author: Analía Jaureguialzo Illustrator: Laura Michell

ISBN: 978-950-534-920-3

ISBN: 978-950-534-921-0

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Art Workshop The art, as a way of knowledge, is organized in a rising sequence of complexity and contents in order to build up more confidence and freedom on the children’s creative expression. Each book presents different and fabulous reproductions of well-known artists’ works, accompanied by original and attractive activities. Thus, children can develop their art skills and explore the uses of several materials and techniques, like painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, engraving...

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Art Workshop 5

Author: Analía Jaureguialzo

ISBN: 978-987-35-0113-5

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Art Workshop 6 Author: Analía Jaureguialzo ISBN: 978-987-35-0115-9

062-0956E Analía Jaureguialzo was born in San Isidro, Buenos Aires. She currently lives in Tigre. Since a child, she felt attracted by the idea of drawing and painting. She started her studies in the Visual Art School “Regina Paccis”, and then she continued them in the National Academy of Fine Arts “Prilidiano

Pueyrredón”. She participated in single and group exhibitions. She has been a teacher for thirty years. She is a plastic artist, a writer and she promotes the art in children, adolescents and adults.

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If I Were…

NEW TITLES Age 6+

Who’s never played an evil witch or a horrifying monster? Who’s never thought “how many things I would do if I were…”? These characters come to life in the limitless imagination of children.

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If I Were a Witch

If I Were a Monster

Author Mónica López and Valeria Dávila Illustrator: Pablo Tambuscio

Authoresses: Mónica López and Valeria Dávila Illustrator: Pablo Tambuscio

What would you do if you were a witch? The story invites everyone to become, for a while, a true witch with a hook nose and a flying broomstick.

What would you do if you were a monster? The story invites everyone to become, for a while, a true monster with lots of arms and only one eye. ISBN: 978-987-35-0194-4

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Valeria Dávila is a journalist and an elementary teacher. She worked in graphic media in the area of historical research. She has also coordinated several journalism workshops for children.

Pablo Tambuscio studied Image and Sound in the University of Buenos Aires and Visual Arts in the University of the Arts. He is an illustrator and a strip cartoonist. He works for children and young adults’ books, newspapers, magazines, films and television. His works has been published in Argentina and abroad.

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It’s Said that…

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The fact that Little Red Riding Hood was disobedient or that Cinderella lost a shoe isn’t a novelty. However, it’s said that… Little Red Riding Hood didn’t run away from the wolf but from his breath, that Sleeping Beauty disturbed everybody with her snoring and that Cinderella had smelly feet. This series tells the other part of the story, which is rumoured but was never written.

NEW It’s Said that… Little Red Riding Hood Authoresses: Mónica López and Valeria Dávila Illustrator: Leandro Szulman Little Red Riding Hood wanted to behave well and please her mom. It’s said that, one day, the girl promised to go straight to her granny's house, who was ill. It’s also said that she was catched by surprise on the way. This book tells, with poetry and humour, everything that is said about Little Red Riding Hood. ISBN: 978-987-35-0183-8

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Valeria Dávila is a journalist and an elementary teacher. She worked in graphic media in the area of historical research. She has also coordinated several journalism workshops for children.

Leandro Szulman is an illustrator and a graphic designer. He makes digital drawings and cartoons. He participated in the production of some animated films. He was the Art Director of Backgrounds for several production companies, like Disney.

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Good Night Stories The two first titles of this series, written and illustrated by Pablo Médici (Brocha), tackle the topic about understanding and accepting people for who they are. Illustrated by María Paula Ratti, the other two titles present the lovely and original illustrated interpretation of popular tonguetwisters.

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Dove

Monsters in the Hair

Author and illustrator: Pablo Médici (Brocha)

There are kids like Manu, smart, very good mates, best brothers. But they can also be absent-minded and usually make strange questions. They are those who have the vocation of a dove.

Monsters might seem terrible creatures which everyone runs away from. However, if you treat them without fear of the differences, they can become exceptional partners.

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Pablo Médici (Brocha) was born in Buenos Aires. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”. For many years, he participated in

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exhibitions with his paintings around the entire country. He is a Plastic Art teacher since more than twenty years ago.

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I Look at You, You Look at Me

I Have a Kitty Cat

Illustrator: María Paula Ratti

The attractive game with words of a tongue-twister is linked to the most ancient trends of the popular and oral poetry. The charm of this kitty cat gets even better with the author’s outstanding illustrations.

The look between two kids in love, who swing from looking at each to avoid being looked at, is the theme of this especially visual story. Thus, the looks turn into the language which relates this children love’s story.

Illustrator: María Paula Ratti

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María Paula Ratti was born in the City of Buenos Aires where she currently lives. She is a plastic artist and an illustrator. She studied in the National Academy of Fine

Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”. She took courses in children’s illustration, writing and digital drawing. She ilustrates books and children’s clothing, and also binds, designs and paints.

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Loves

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A unique book that invites you to fall in love in each new story. Because love sometimes visits us in a book, keeps secrets in the rain or waits at a lake shore. Or it even plays with the wind and forgets everything. In these pages, the poems share romantic adventures and make us meet –and recognize– the various faces of love.

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Loves Author and illustrator: Pablo Médici (Brocha) ISBN: 978-987-35-0166-1

Pablo Médici (Brocha) was born in Buenos Aires. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”. For many years, he participated in

exhibitions with his paintings around the entire country. He is a Plastic Art teacher since more than twenty years ago.

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Hercules Hercules’ life is complicated: he isn’t quite a god, but he’s more than a man. That doesn’t save him from fights with other men, giants and monsters. To make things worse, he is pursued by an angry goddess. Nevertheless, with force and courage he manage to triumph again and again, and become immortal.

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Hercules

More than a man, less than a god Author: Iris Rivera Illustrator: Huadi ISBN: 978-950-534-466-6

Iris Rivera was born in Buenos Aires. She is a professor of Philosophy and Educational Sciences. She has worked as a teacher for twenty years. She writes children’s books. She was awarded with the Diploma al Mérito 2014, in the cathegory of children's litarature (Premios Konex).

Hugo Alberto Díaz (Huadi) was born in Buenos Aires. He has worked as a political caricaturist in newspapers like El Día (La Plata), La Gaceta (La Plata), El Cronista Comercial, El Diario Popular, Sur, Página/12 and, currently, La Nación. He makes drawings for different publishing houses.

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Rooftop Cats

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This series presents, in an accessible and attractive way, different social issues that aren’t usual in children’s literature. With an effective and updated revival of the ancient art of the fable, the writers focus on different situations of change and conflict that happen in the cat community. Even more: they make it work as a mirror of our own reality.

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The Great Race

The Sunglasses

(Gender Discrimination)

Age 8+

(Gender Violence)

Authors: Beatriz Doumerc and Gabriel Barnes Illustrator: Petra Steinmeyer

Authors: Beatriz Doumerc and Gabriel Barnes Illustrator: Gabriela Ricardi

In the world of the roofs, the more important event is the Great Race. Everybody prepares to participate. Everybody… except for the female cats. The rules have always banned them from running with the male cats. But everything will change when the cat Whitey, with Chip’s help, makes way for a strange runner with scarf and hat…

Nina, the cat, was born with one leg shorter than the others, so she moves with difficulty. She would love to play and go to school as everyone else, but she finds it very hard to get around. The cats decide to help her and they consult Saw, a very handy cat who always has good ideas. ISBN: 978-987-35-0196-8

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Beatriz Doumerc was a writer with many years of experience in children’s literature. Her books have been published in several countries: Cuba, Mexico, Italy, Sweden, Spain and Turkey.

Gabriel Barnes was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. For many years, he has lived in Italy, where he published lots of works as a comic scriptwriter for Eura Editoriale and for the magazines Skorpio and Lanciostory. He currently lives in Barcelona, where he works on children’s literature.

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What Do I Wear?

Times Change

(Fashion and Eating Disorders)

(Immigration)

Authors: Beatriz Doumerc and Gabriel Barnes Illustrator: Viviana Brass

Authors: Beatriz Doumerc and Gabriel Barnes Illustrator: Mariano Di Camillo

On the roofs, some cats love dancing, buying brand clothes or jogging. The cat Daisy wants to participate in a fashion show, so she goes on a bad diet that damages her health. The situation is serious, but the cat Chip knows how to sort it out.

More and more strange cats are arriving at the roofs. Some cats refuse to welcome them because they fear that soon there won’t be enough space. Other cats, like Chip, accept them because they think that times change, and getting to know new cats and other cultures is a great thing.

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Petra Steinmeyer is an Argentinian artist who made a long career within the sphere of illustration and animation. She drew lots of children’s books in Argentina and Europe. She also participated in the graphic creation of renowned and award-winning TV series for kids. Viviana Brass is an illustrator who started out in fine arts from an early age in the Culture Centre “Arte y Vida”. Many years later, she studied children’s illustration at the Art School “Sótano Blanco”. She took courses and seminars with well-known teachers dedicated to illustration.

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Gabriela Ricardi is a plastic artist focused on the field of children’s books illustration and on her other great love, animated films. She works entirely with digital tools, but she doesn’t miss out any chance of painting with acrylics and colored pencils.

Mariano Di Camillo is an illustrator trained as a graphic designer. He worked as a teacher in the field of Design at the University of Buenos Aires. He worked for several publishing houses, the Ministry of Education, Government of the City, Encuentro Channel, among others.

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A Good Idea

The Cat who Came back from the War

(Architectural Barriers)

(Conflicts and Peace)

Authors: Beatriz Doumerc and Gabriel Barnes Illustrator: Cristian Bernardini

A new cat arrives at the roof. He is very evasive, but he stands out in the rescue of a little cat in trouble. The fact is that he comes from a war-ridden place, where he suffered hard times. His experience will make the other cats reflect and decide to be peaceful no matter what.

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Cristian Bernardini is an illustrator and a graphic designer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He works in the design of characters and backgrounds, in

illustrations –of textbooks, children’s books, magazines, advertising pieces, cartoons–, in the creation of costumes or scenarios for plays and animation.

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A-Z’s Great Readers Three stories, three different worlds…, but no that different. Can you imagine how a dog’s life is? What does he think about us humans? What happens in a cat community? To understand it’s necessary to become a cat for a moment. And how would you deal with a whimsical king and not surrender to his strange wishes? Without a doubt, it’s an experience that common people don’t usually live.

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Dog’s Life

Cat’s Life

Nanaban

Author: Beatriz Doumerc Illustrator: Petra Steinmeyer

Author: Graciela Progano Illustrator: Federico Combi

A dog’s life related by the dog itself is something unusual. But more strange is that the story becomes a mirror that reflects, with unbeatable clarity, our human lives.

Rain, the cat who narrates his own life, knows that the stories aren’t always real. Because every story and every life have something of truth and something of fantasy. In a mixture of these two ingredients, we discover this cat’s life.

An exotic and vain king, who travels to a city far away from his domains. There, he meets a family integrated by a mom, two kids and a dog. They share funny and absurd experiences that will transform them all.

ISBN: 978-987-35-0102-9

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Beatriz Doumerc was a writer with many years of experience in children’s literature. Her books have been published in several countries: Cuba, Mexico, Italy, Sweden, Spain and Turkey.

Graciela Progano was born in Buenos Aires. She studied Art in the University of Buenos Aires. Since then, she works as a school teacher. She also writes textbooks, stories, legends, poems for children, that she publishes in books and magazines. She also writes novels. Federico Combi was born in Buenos Aires. He started to draw comics when he was a teenager, and he managed to exhibit them in Japan. He enjoyed that experience so much that he studied Visual Arts. He illustrates books about dinosaurs, textbooks and anthologies.

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Equals Age 9+

These books describe the lifestyles, customs and perceptions of girls and boys who live in Argentina. They are part of different ethnic, social, cultural or geographical groups: kids from rural areas or big cities, Mapuche, islanders, artists, disabled people, immigrants from the East, inventors… Readers will find themselves similar in some aspects and different in others. This series seeks to promote the respect for the others and to eliminate the DIGITAL BOOKS AVAILABLE prejudices and the discrimination.

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Roma Children

Homeless Kids

Authors: Inés Tenewicki and Yanina Kinigsberg

Roma people are often discriminated, both on the street and at school or at work. Most of the people who mistreat them don’t know their customs, history and way of life. They have a rich culture though not very well-known. It is not easy to find roma children who want to tell their story and be photographed. All the kids in this book and their stories are real. Among the reasons why they accepted to be interviewed, there is one that stands out: if people know them, they will understand, respect and stop discriminating them.

This book contains testimonies of girls and boys who are or were out of their homes, so they learned "the street code". The reports were made in foster homes and in the street. The reaction of the interviewees are varied. Many children had fun with the idea of appearing in a book and they talked. Perhaps they didn’t tell the whole truth, so there may be some contradictions in their stories. Other kids were mistrustful of us; and others agreed, but then they regretted and didn’t share their experiences. ISBN: 978-950-534-547-2

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Stories from around the World The place we live in is always the closest, and it imposes certain lifestyles and habits. Everything has a reason connected to it's place and culture. This series recovers popular stories and legends transmitted orally from generation to generation. Narrated for children, they constitute a different way of approaching lifestyles, traditions and characters from regions around the world.

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Stories from Argentina 1

Stories from Argentina 2

Compiler: Graciela Bialet

Compiler: Graciela Falbo

From the hand of these stories and legends, this book goes over five anthropological and cultural areas of the province of Córdoba. Each one has peculiar characteristics: the north, the south, the mountains, the hills and the capital city.

From the hand of these stories and legends, this book goes over four regions of the province of Buenos Aires. Each one has peculiar characteristics: the mountains, the plain, the city and the coast.

Age 9+

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Graciela Bialet was born in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, where she also grew up, studied and currently lives. She is a writer, a teacher and a journalist. She has a degree in Education too. She has written several stories that were included in anthologies, textbooks, and books for teachers. She has also written other stories about kids at school and a novel about human rights. Graciela Falbo was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, where he lives. She is a teacher and a journalist. She has specialized in Art, Journalism and Mass Communication at the National University of La Plata. As a journalist she has leaned towards science; and as a writer, she dedicated herself to children’s literature.

ISBN: 978-950-534-705-6

ISBN: 978-950-534-662-2

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The Other History. Native People Age 9+

Why “The Other History”? History is one and includes all humans, but it's not always entirely told. Regarding the texts about our American countries, they usually begin with the Spanish colonization, as if the colonists had come to an empty land. But it was populated. Since the sixteenth century, indigenous people have been exterminated, dominated or thrown out of their lands… and of books, too. That’s the other part of the history we want to talk about, so as to complete it. Focused on the anthropological –but in a litarary and friendly way–, these books include traditions, daily life, fights for survival and the fate of American Natives. They intend to share another point of view at the events that took DIGITAL BOOKS place before and after the European invasion. AVAILABLE

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The America Conquest

The Diaguita

The Tehuelche

Authors: Miguel Ángel Palermo and Roxana Edith Boixadós Illustrator: Daniela López Casenave

Authors: Miguel Ángel Palermo and Roxana Edith Boixadós Illustrator: Laura Michell

Author: Miguel Ángel Palermo Illustrator: Daniela López Casenave

ISBN: 978-950-534-914-2

ISBN: 978-950-534-912-8

ISBN: 978-950-534-916-6

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The Guarani

The Yaghan

The Pampas Tribes

Authors: Miguel Ángel Palermo and Roxana Edith Boixadós Illustrator: María Giuffra

Author: Miguel Ángel Palermo Illustrator: Laura Michell

Author: Miguel Ángel Palermo Illustrator: Daniela López Casenave

ISBN: 978-950-534-915-9

ISBN: 978-950-534-934-0

ISBN: 978-950-534-913-5 Miguel Ángel Palermo has a degree in Anthropology. He was a teacher at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher from the CONICET. He publishes works about science and traditional narrative. Roxana Edith Boixadós has a degree, a master and a doctorate in Anthropology. She is also a researcher at the CONICET .

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The Selk’nam

The Riders from Chaco

Author: Miguel Ángel Palermo Illustrator: Laura Michell

Author: Miguel Ángel Palermo Illustrator: Daniela López Casenave

ISBN: 978-950-534-933-3

ISBN: 978-950-534-936-4

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Daniela López Casenave studied drawing, painting and sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón". Now, she focuses on children’s illustration. María Giuffra graduated from the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón". She participates in exhibitions at different institutions. Laura Michell is a painting and printmaking teacher, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón". She also has a degree in Visual Arts from UNA.

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American People A series made by anthropologists, intended for students, teachers and the general public as well. Each book presents the different aspects of the society and culture of the different Native American people, with abundant photographic material, maps and a rigorous graphic reconstruction by Aldo Chiappe, a renowned Argentinian illustrator.

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The Diaguita

The Maya

The Mapuche

Author: María de Hoyos Illustrator: Aldo Chiappe Director: Miguel Ángel Palermo

ISBN: 978-950-534-460-0

ISBN: 978-950-534-462-7

ISBN: 978-950-534-498-8

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The Inca Empire

Guarani

The Aztec

Author: María de Hoyos Illustrator: Aldo Chiappe Director: Miguel Ángel Palermo

ISBN: 978-950-534-528-3

ISBN: 978-950-534-535-6

ISBN: 978-950-534-550-X

Miguel Ángel Palermo has a degree in Anthropology. He worked at the Ethnographic Museum "Juan B. Ambrosetti" of the University of Buenos Aires. He was a teacher at that university and a researcher at the CONICET. He has a major in Ethnohistory. He has focused on the study of changes in the peoples of the Pampas and Patagonia during the colonial era. He was awarded with the Diploma al Mérito 2014, in the cathegory of children's litarature (Premios Konex).

María de Hoyos was born in Buenos Aires. She studied Arts and Archaeology. She received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She also integrated projects supported by the CONICET and by the University. She participated in national and international scientific meetings, and published over a hundred articles in academic magazines. Currently she is a professor and a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires).

Aldo Chiappe was born in Buenos Aires. His artistic training is basically self-taught. When he was a young artist of nature, he received the task of illustrating a series of films about flora and fauna of the main ecosystems of Argentina for Foundation Vida Silvestre Argentina. From that moment, he began working for important publications, national and foreign, always related to wildlife and conservation.

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Open Plot

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Developed for today’s readers, this titles present a renewed way of reading classic and modern literature. With notes, writing and comprehension activities, complementary texts and images. This series includes different genres, like plays (to perform), novels, rhymes, crime fiction, horror and love stories among others.

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Martín Fierro

Bernarda Alba’s House

Odyssey’s Horrors

Author: José Hernández Illustrators: Néstor Taylor (cover) and Darío Salvi (inside) Pages: 192

Author: Federico García Lorca Illustrator: Lucas Orueta Pages: 96

Author: Homer Illustrator: Cristian Bernardini Pages: 96

This story takes place inside a house where family conflicts arise. Five single daughters are forced to repress their feelings, under the command of the mother –Bernarda–, who is obsessed with taking care of the appearances. The atmosphere is stifling, a shut world where the mourning and the obedience prevail over love. A review of society that transcends times.

These poems introduce us into the soul of the civilized humanity, in charge of organizing the Cosmos –ordered system, civilization– in opposition to Chaos – the terrifying, the unthinkable, terrible beings, which exceed our imagination, which are beyond our universe–. From this Chaos, the horrors come, reflected in these selected texts from Odyssey.

It’s one of the most important works of the Argentinian literature, a poem that tells, in first person and by way of folk ballad, the misfortunes of a gaucho recruited by the army to protect the borders: the discrimination, the abandonment and the persecution by the State. The author used the gaucho’s voice to establish the borders between two models of government. ISBN: 978-987-35-0182-1

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ISBN: 978-987-35-0180-7

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Darío Salvi is a graphic designer and an illustrator who graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in storyboards, animatics and photography. Since 2002 he has illustrated children’s books, with over 250 books published in Latin America, USA and Spain.

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Néstor Taylor studied at the High School of Fine Arts “Carlos Morel”. He designed backgrounds for important animations. He was the Art Director of films directed by García Ferré, among others. He illustrates books, magazines, games and he designs packaging for different kind of media. Lucas Orueta was born in Buenos Aires. He studied Visual Arts in the National University of the Arts and Animated Films at the DaVinci School. He draws for the advertising and film industries.

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Face Fear and Shadows

Love Stories

Author: Patricio H. Agüed Illustrator: Néstor Taylor Pages: 96

Authors: Patricio H. Agüed, Mark Twain, Horacio Quiroga, Lafcadio Hearn and O. Henry Illustrator: Juan Baeza Pages: 104

The stories included in this book happen in ordinary places. The situations aren’t extraordinary either: the fear and the fantasy burst into the daily routine, interrupted by inexplicable events. ISBN: 978-987-35-0178-4

These tales, with the charming of the brevity, allow us to participate in a fictional reality that transports us. And why is love the topic? Because love is with us since forever and it’s universal. The pages of this book delight us with unforgettable love stories. ISBN: 978-987-35-0179-1

Cristian Bernardini is an illustrator and a graphic designer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He works in the design of characters and backgrounds, in illustrations –of textbooks, children’s books, magazines, advertising pieces, cartoons–, in the creation of costumes or scenarios for plays and animation. Juan Baeza is an illustrator, a graphic designer and a teacher. He works for producers and publishers. He teaches courses and seminars about drawing in different institutions. He participated in group and individual exhibitions at the Palais de Glace, La Alianza Francesa, Harrods and other cultural institutions. Patricio Hernán Agüed was born in Lomas de Zamora. He is an Argentinian high school teacher of Spanish, Literature and Latin. He’s also a writer, and loves the fantasy genre and horror movies.

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The Color out of Space and Other Stories

Full Theatre

Jinx!...

Authoress: Olga Drennen Illustrator: Gastón Hauviller Pages: 96

Author: Gregorio de Laferrère Illustrator: Gustavo Damiani Pages: 120

An ancient farm in a rural area of the Unites States doesn’t seem the propitious site for mystery or horror. However, evil can appear in any place and in broad daylight. Houses, tradition, magic, beings foreign to our time and place, colors from other worlds are pieces of the dark forces' jigsaw that mustn’t be put together.

Who doesn’t know the story of the Beauty and the Beast, Clumsy Hans, Clever Else or The Town Musicians of Bremen? Who doesn’t remember The Shepherdess and the Sweep? Who doesn’t like the Brothers Grimm’s stories or Hans Christian Andersen’s tales? This anthology turns the traditional stories up a notch: it converts them into short plays to perform!

Mr. Lucas Rodríguez, man of high status, decides to marry, and he has no better idea than to choose Lucía, the daughter of a friend marriage, as a wife. However, the young girl doesn’t agree. And her secret boyfriend Carlos certainly hates it. Both put a plan into action to bring the suitor into discredit. It’s neither for being old, nor for being bad or dishonest: it's for being jinx!

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ISBN: 978-987-35-0089-3

Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft Illustrator: Juan Pablo Caro Pages: 176

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Juan Pablo Caro studied at the Art School "Sótano Blanco”. He worked in the magazines Caras y caretas, ORSAI, Rumbos, Arlequín de SAGAI, among others. He illustrates children’s books for different publishing houses from Argentina and abroad. Olga Drennen is an Argentinian and contemporary writer, specialist in children’s classic tales, with a long career as an author, editor and jury of literary competitions. 028-0003E

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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Police Stories

Typhoon

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Illustrator: Cristian Bernardini Pages: 104 Detective or scientific? Justice defender or simple fan of puzzles? Sherlock Holmes has come down to us as the investigator par excellence. Movies, series, comics, literary reprints bring the famous character of Baker Street to life again and again. In this selection of detective stories, Holmes and his inseparable friend Dr. Watson face vampires, ancient rituals of initiation, inexplicable robberies and murders. ISBN: 978-987-35-0090-9

Author: Joseph Conrad Illustrator: Darío Salvi Pages: 128 “Captain Macwhirr, of the steamer Nan-Shan had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity.” In this way, the well-known novel of Conrad starts off with this description of the main character. No one would think that a very little auspicious character would be able to face a typhoon. ISBN: 978-987-35-0088-6

Gastón Hauviller is an illustrator and author of children’s literature. He studied at the Fine Arts Workshop “Villa Mecenas”, at the Art School "Sótano Blanco" and at the workshop of the artist Roberto Gatti. He is a member of the Forum of Argentinian Illustrators. Gustavo Damiani was born in Buenos Aires. He illustrated for most Argentinian children’s books publishers, the Ministry of Education, newspapers and agencies, as well as for over twenty American and European countries. Cristian Bernardini is an illustrator and a graphic designer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He works in the design of characters and backgrounds, in illustrations –of textbooks, children’s books, magazines, advertising pieces, cartoons–, in the creation of costumes or scenarios for plays and animation. Darío Salvi is a graphic designer and an illustrator who graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in storyboards, animatics and photography. Since 2002 he has illustrated children’s books, with over 250 books published in Latin America, USA and Spain.

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