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COPONS & FORTUNY’S NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES!
BITMAX&CO BITMAX & CO IS THE NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES FOR FIRST READERS FROM COMBEL.
• THE PERFECT WAY TO MOVE FROM PICTURE BOOKS TO CHILDREN’S NOVELS. • PROMOTES READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH A TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE STRUCTURE.
IT WAS WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY JAUME COPONS AND LILIANA FORTUNY...
• OFFERS THE FORMAL DIVERSITY AND READING LEVELS OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL. • READERS WILL FIND CHARACTERS TO IDENTIFY WITH, ALONGSIDE LOTS OF ADVENTURE, HUMOUR, IMAGINATION, FANTASY, AND AGE-APPROPRIATE CONFLICT.
• OVER 500,000 COPIES SOLD • TRANSLATED INTO MORE THAN 18 LANGUAGES • 21 MONSTROUS PARTNERS WORLDWIDE!
MAIN CHARACTERS
A helpful robot, a clever rat and a kind bear are the main protagonists in Bitmax & Co.
All kinds of beings and animals from all over the world live in the Blue Forest, a very unusual community that calls itself “the forest people”.
NOT AT ALL.
I’M NOT A STONE, I’M AN ELF!
FRIDA
RAVEL SUPERPIG
LIVING IN THE BLUE FOREST IS REALLY AMAZING!
Quick, clever and witty. Despite laziness, she always supports Bitmax.
HE SAYS THAT LIVING IN THE BLUE FOREST IS AMAZING!
IVERSON
SORRY ABOUT THE FART. I’M AN OGRE!
PAOLO
I’M A MONSTROUSLY MONSTROUS MONSTER!
An alien who delights in annoying everyone. He doesn’t want to let himself be helped!
I’M NOT A STONE EITHER!
TRUNCUS
SINATRA
I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU SAY THAT!
I HAVE THE FEELING EVERYTHING’S THE WRONG WAY ROUND!
SHE’S THE OLDEST!
PAUL
AND I’M EVO, THE ANTAGONIST!
ARETA
I HAVE NERVES OF STEEL.
BABA
AND SHE’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL!
SUPERPIG September 2020
THE GOLDEN DRAGON February 2021
PAOLO, THE SHEEPDOG April 2021
MINE ARE IN TATTERS!
FARADAY
THEY ALL SEEM QUITE PATHETIC TO ME!
GALILEU
DIMITRI
A ROBOT IN THE FOREST September 2020
BOBARY
WE ONLY KNOW THAT WE KNOW NOTHING!
DENIR0
I’M ALWAYS NERVOUS!
HAMLET
COMING SOON...
RUFUS CAPTAIN BALBOA
I’M MUS AND MY JOB IS TO HELP BITMAX.
The formal diversity proposed by Bitmax & Co situates the reader within a complex decoding process which they can follow without getting lost, as all the information is provided in an orderly and coherent manner, with several levels of reading.
THOSE VALUES ARE NEVER INTRODUCED IN THE FORM OF A LECTURE, BUT RATHER THEY CAN BE SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND TO THE CHARACTERS’ ADVENTURES.
BITMAX’S FRIENDS, THE FOREST PEOPLE I’M SUPERPIG! THAT’S OBVIOUS, RIGHT?
Each title in the series clearly focuses on a single conflict. Bitmax & Co is not a succession of gags, situations or scenes, but places us in the heart of the classic narrative structure that presents a conflict, develops it and solves it.
BITMAX&CO IS A SERIES AND WORKING ABOUT LIVING TOGETHER, TOGETHER, DIVERSITY, FRIENDSHIP, EMPATHY, RESOLVING CONFLICTS RESPECT, SOLIDARITY... AND ECOLOGY.
HELPING PEOPLE? WHAT A CRAZY IDEA!
THE IDEAL SERIES FOR KIDS FROM 6 YEARS OLD UP TO 120!
I KNOW EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON IN THE BLUE FOREST. EVERYTHING!
Adventure, comedy and fable are the framework behind the Bitmax & Co stories.
UNIVERSAL VALUES
I’M BITMAX, THE HELPER!
Patient, naive and sweet. It takes a lot to make him angry, but when he gets angry, he’s scary...
STRUCTURE
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SERIES FOR READERS OVER 6 YEARS OLD, BITMAX & CO IS FOR YOU!
...THE AUTHORS OF THE AGUS & MONSTERS SERIES.
MY NAME’S WAGNER AND I’M A FRIEND OF BITMAX AND MUS.
PLOT
At Bitmax’s side, Mus and Wagner discover that helping is an ongoing adventure!
• REVEALS A WORLD WHERE ANIMALS AND FANTASTIC BEINGS COEXIST AND RESOLVE THEIR DIFFERENCES IN A FUN AND CIVILISED WAY, WHILE DEFENDING THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
A stubborn and persistent robot. In a world where animals occupy space belonging to humans, Bitmax is the most human of all.
MUCH MORE THAN A CHAPTER BOOK
When Mus and Wagner, a rat and a bear living in the Blue Forest, find a broken robot and decide to fix it, they have no idea of the adventure they have in store. They soon discover that the robot has a name, Bitmax, and it also has a strange profession – it’s a helper! Once he has become part of the Blue Forest community of animals and creatures, Bitmax will help solve any conflicts that arise. He will also have to deal with a grumpy little troublemaking alien called Evo, and humans that visit the forest.
A SERIES FOR FIRST READERS
THE AUTHORS
HELPING IS A GREAT ADVENTURE!
I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY RIGHT NOW.
EVO DIÓGENES
SPEFICATIONS • Written by Jaume Copons • Illustrated by Liliana Fortuny • 15.5 x 21.5 cm. 72 pages. Hardcover • Ages 6+
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