Foreign Rights Bologna 2011 Children
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Foreign Rights Manager Daniel Cladera (dcladera@planeta.es)
Foreign Rights Assistant Merche San Segundo (msansegundo@planeta.es)
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Foreign Rights Bologna 2011 Children
Children’s books
José Luis Ágreda, 2 Blanca Álvarez, 4 Fernando Argenta, 22 Mercedes Cairol, 23 David Cirici, 8 Isabel Córdova, 24 Violeta Denou, 6 Víctor Díez, 14 Juan Farias, 25 Valentín Fuster, 8 Ana Galán, 26 Eva Garcés, 12
Ana García-Sineriz, 10 Alicia Gili, 27 Carlos Goñi, 28 Nahir Gutiérrez, 29 Maria Guitart, 25 Pau Joan Hernández, 30 Daniel Hernández Chambres, 31 Jvlivs, 22 Jordi Labanda, 10 Gemma Lienas, 12 Josep Lluch, 32 Cristina Losantos, 28
Joan Antoni Martín, 14 Àngels Navarro, 33 Javier Negrete, 16 José Negrete, 16 Álex Omist, 29 Víctor Panicello, 34 Silvia Romero, 27 Mª Jesús Santos, 24 Jordi Sierra i Fabra, 18 Emili Teixidor, 20 José Vicuña, 35
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José Luis Ágreda A funny little girl learning new things every day
Amusing everyday stories: Carla discovers the surrounding world in a charming and funny way. Encourages creativity and imagination. Mixes fantasy, humour (at different levels, with humorous winks to the grown-ups) and reality. What Carla likes most is to smell flowers in springtime, build some sand castles in summer, play hide-and-seek in autumn and have fun with snow in winter. Discover with this book with flaps the four seasons of the year, and the weather, food and holidays that happened in each. Learning with Carla is always fun!
José Luis Ágreda is a Spanish books and comics illustrator. When he was a young boy he lived in Bilbao, where he met the world of local comic illustrators and where he first published in fanzines. Later on, he moved to Seville, where he studied Architecture and where he keeps on publishing his illustrations in several magazines. From 1994 to 1998, he worked for La comictiva. In 1997, the publishing house Under Comic published his first comic ¡Eh, tú chaval!. He has worked for the satyrical weekly magazine El Jueves, where he has gained a lot of popularity with his stories. In 2001 he was awarded with the 2001 Premio a la Mejor Obra of the Saló del Còmic i del Manga de Barcelona.
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A funny little girl learning new things every day. A funny book with aps that enhances the Carla series. Learn the seasons is a pleasant book book that will transform learning into a game for the younger. Carla has a fresh and up-to-date image, and her behaviour is similar to that of the children. 3 years +
Carla. Learn the seasons Timun Mas / 10 pages / April 2011 03
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Albert Casals An amazing story of self-improvement
What’s happened to that boy with the blue hair that travelled alone and in a wheelchair? These are Albert Casals’ newest adventures. Optimism and vitality at 100%. Now, two years after El món sobre rodes, Albert has grown up, has studied one year of Philosophy, has travelled and... has fallen in love! In Sense fronteres, Albert Casals accounts with his direct and true writing his adventures and experiences during those days: from the South American forests to the African deserts, from where he returned before than expected because... because... because he had a new and baffling feeling: he missed a girl who stayed in Barcelona. Because of that, because now he had found out that travelling on his own was not as great as before, Anna and him decided to travel together to Japan. Sense fronteres also includes some short stories that Albert wrote while he was travelling, and an extra chapter where he updates his own philosophy.
Albert Casals was born in Barcelona in 1990. When he was five he suffered from mononucleosis, and this led him to a leukaemia that has left him in a wheelchair. Since he was seven, he lives in Esparraguera with his parents and his sister. He has travelled all around the world since he was fourteen. He’s in his twenties now, and has started to study Philosophy, a degree that he combines with his exciting travels. He is ambassador for the foundation Step by Step, devoted to the rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injuries. His first book, El món sobre rodes (Edicions 62, 2009) had an amazing reception and was one of the bestselling books of 2009.
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Albert Casals has also been published in Spanish and Korean. A book about the joy of living, about love, friendship and self-improvement. He has travelled all around the world with only his wheelchair, but now he has found love and a new partner for his trips. 12 years +
Without Frontiers Edicions 62 / 300 pages/March 2011 05
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Violeta Denou The most popular children character in Spain for the last 30 years!
Join Teo and his friends in having a snack at a coffee bar or in enjoying a day at the circus or in the funfair, you will have lots of fun!! Try and find where does Teo hide and discover the rest of the elements hidden in each illustration.
Violeta Denou is the pseudonym of Assumpció Esteban, Carla Goyta and Ana Vidal. One of their most famous characters is Teo, that has more than one hundred titles and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Now, Violeta Denou is only formed by Carlota and Assumpció, and they keep on creating new Teo titles, after 30 years of success among children.
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Teo is one of the most popular characters in the world of children literature in Spain and has been a bestseller for more than thirty years. With this book, the kid will have fun while developing his ability to observe and while improving his vocabulary. The best way for learning and having fun at the same time. 3 years +
Where is teo Hiding? Timun Mas / 14 pages / April 2011 07
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Valentín Fuster & David Cirici The best book to teach health and food to children
Valentín Fuster has adapted his bestseller La ciencia de la salud to teach children how to live a healthy life. A book focused on healthy habits (healthy food is a key topic on the book) written for children with a certain habit of reading or that are starting to read with their parents. It is a most peculiar book, illustrated originally, and that offers solutions with a high conceptual value and to «speak» without words, with highlights, a creative use of typographies, etc., that become more prominent, and with short texts. It has an introduction with a reading guide, and is enhanced with an appendix with a test about healthy habits: A book that will become an understandable, funny, useful and original book in regard to the already-existing books about health and food aimed at children.
Valentín Fuster is the most renowned Cardiologist and Spanish researcher in the world. He was awarded with the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación, and is a model for the world medical and health-care communities. David Cirici is a writer, a screenwriter and a publicist. He is the author of more than ten children titles for which he has been awarded with more than half a dozen awards, like the Joaqum Ruyra of fiction, the Apel·les Mestres of children literature, the Ramon Muntaner for children literature or the Crítica Serra d’Or of children literature. He has written several scripts for Les tres besssones (Cromosoma) for its TV show (TV3) from 1996 to 2001.
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La ciencia de la salud, the original book for adults, has sold more than 120,000 copies and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese (Complex and SimpliďŹ ed), Romanian and Catalan. ValentĂn Fuster is an international well-known and respected cardiologist. Fuster’s advices on health are followed with great interest by media all around the world. 8 years +
The Short Science of Health Planeta / 224 pages / March 2011 09
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Ana García-Siñeriz & Jordi Labanda New series Launching 2011
Zoé lives with her mother and her younger brother, Nic the bore. Her most loyal friend is her dog, Kira. And her best friends, and mates at school, are Marc, Lisetta and Álex. Together they will travel around the world and they will live the most incredible adventures. A new collection of adventures and humour in which a group of friends formed by three girls, a boy and a dog will travel around many countries in order to dismantle a terrible Organization that is putting the world in danger... Will they succeed?
Ana García-Siñeriz is a journalist and has a Master’s Degree in Radio journalism. A great communicator, she has presented several successful TV programmes. Jordi Labanda is one of the best Spanish illustrators, known not only in our country but in all the world.
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Ana García Siñeriz is a very well known journalist that has recently published an adults’ book. Jordi Labanda is a very famous illustrator and designer. They have joined forces to write an original and magnificent series of a group of young detectives. 9 years +
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Gemma Lienas & Eva Garcés A new book by one of the best known young adults writers in Spain
Raúl is a common young boy, and that’s why he sometimes has tantrums. One day he had a craving for wanting the moon. Such a weird idea, isn’t it? His best friend, Cholis, who loves him a lot, is ready to do anything to make him happy. That’s why, with the help of Gur, he will go to get the moon.
Gemma Lienas is a writer, and she contributes to several communication media. She has written more than fifty books, some of them for the younger ones, like Callejón sin salida, Así es la vida, Carlota (IBBY Commendation, 1990), El diario lila de Carlota (Unesco Award for the Tolerance), El diario rojo de Carlota; and also books for adults, like Atrapada en el espejo, El final del juego (Ramon Llull Award 2003) and Anoche soñé contigo. Eva Garcés is an illustrator, a painter and a cartoonist, amongst other things. She usually collaborates with advertising agencies and design studios, publishing houses, public organizations and private enterprises, either as a contributor or taking care of her own campaigns.
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A book that encourages imagination and fantasy amongst the younger readers. Gemma Lienas is a very proliďŹ c writer, and has also written a successful series called La tribu de Camelot. A story that deals with the importance of friendship, and the things one does for a good friend. 12 years +
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Joan Antoni Martín & Víctor Díez A funny series that will become the success of the year
La cocina de los monstruos is an amusing memoir from the most famous zombie chef on the planet. His job involves cooking the most impossible dishes out of the most dangerous ingredients: dragons, vampires, witches and the many other monstrous beings who enthusiastically go about the business of scaring humankind. Bermúdez hates cleanliness, camaraderie and, especially, children. So, as the head cook in a school kitchen, it’s no surprise that noone likes him. Then an unfortunate accident with ingredients past their sell-by date leads to Bermúdez waking the dead at a nearby cemetery and turning into a zombie himself. With the help of his unpleasant rat and Pablo, the only child who isn’t scared of him, Bermúdez the Zombie will, book by book, be transformed from a simple school cook to an internationally renowned chef thanks to some unique dishes cooked with the help of monsters whom he at first tries to hunt but who later become his best friends.
Víctor Díez (Barcelona, 1976) is a cartoonist, although he has also made some things as a graphic designer. Even though he has made several things for publishing houses, this would be his first job as the illustrator of a series of books. Joan Antoni Martín graduated in Media Studies with good marks in the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, but nobody has ever demanded him his degree to work as a screenwriter. Until now, he has published the great novel 200 locuras para que te quedes conmigo (Plaza & Janés) and the books for children Menudos chistes (Montena) and Laya y el horripilante monstruo de champú (Edebé). Had he been good in gym at school, maybe now he would have a permanent job with a decent schedule, but he wouldn’thave all this fun.
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A story, a game, a series, a book of recipes, a mixture of everything and a lot more. Includes a HumanMonster dictionary, in case you come across one... With tests to ďŹ nd out how human readers would withstand a zombie invasion and also to ďŹ nd out how much of a zombie or monster they are. 12 years +
Macaroni with Zombie / Mummy Tagliatelle Destino Infantil / 180 pages / May 2011 15
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Javier Negrete & José Negrete A new fantasy book for the younger readers
In the magic world of Kalanum, good always prevails thanks to the super powers of the heroes Cronarca, Petrazio, Fulgor and Kimbur. But when Miguel, the author of the Kalanum novels, loses his wife, he lets himself go, desperate, and creates Keio, a violent character that fights and kills for no reason at all. Gradually, the dark world of Keio devours Kalanum’s magic. Carlos, Miguel’s son, does not want Kalanum to disappear. Helped by the fairy Sileya, travels to the fantastic world of Kalanum to fight against Keio. But before, he will have to bring the heroes back to life and give them back their powers, a mission far more complicated and dangerous than what he thought.
Javier Negrete (Madrid, 1964) is a writer with a wide and succesful career. His literary work covers different genres, from fantasy to history novels, through sci-fi. Amongst his books, we can highlight Salamina (Espartaco Award of the Semana Negra, 2009) and Atlántida (2010), both published in Espasa. José Negrete grew up and lives in Vallecas (Madrid). He has studied Music, Audiovisual Communications and Drama. During some time, he worked in television as a screenwriter, producer and composer. He has also written and directed several short films. Nowadays, he works in the advertising world and in the writing and broadcasting of songs and videos. His work can be ssen at his YouTube channel and in the blog www. lacasadelosvientos. com.
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Javier Negrete is one of the best known fantasy writers in Spain. His books have been translated into French and Greek. A perfect mixture of the worries and concerns of any pre-teen, with an original and surprising world of fantasy crowded with atypical heroes. An amazing story to let your imagination y. 12 years +
The heroes of Kalanum Espasa / 250 pages / March 2011 17
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Jordi Sierra i Fabra A book about a touching subject by one of our most prolific young adults writers
A song of hope in the great struggle to definitively eradicate the exploitation of children. A journalist finds a message in a rug he bought in India written by the boy who weaved it. It is a plea for help, a desperate cry which he cannot ignore. Although millions of children are exploited in the world, this message bears a name, Iqbal, and a location: the city of Madurai. A visit to the shop where the rug was bought will present the protagonist with the truth that enslaved children are sold by their own parents. Iqbal died some time before, but slave children just like him remain. The protagonist will have to decide what a westerner can do in an unknown land where child slavery is permitted. Faithful to his principles, he will rescue the nine children enslaved like Iqbal. The surprising climax of the story, full of strength and courage, is a paean to hope in the great struggle to definitively eradicate child exploitation.
Jordi Sierra i Fabra was born in Barcelona in 1947. Passionate about literature and music, he has written everything from crime novels to science fiction via essays, history and biography, and is also an extremely successful writer of literature for young people.
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Jordi Sierra i Fabra is one of the best known authors in the young adults market and has received many awards. A book that will help make younger readers aware of the serious consequences that children exploitation entail. A fact that, unluckily, still happens in several countries. An author translated into Italian, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), English, Korean, Japanese, Finnish, Danish, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Greek, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Romanian and Persian. 12 years +
The Music On The Wind Planeta Lector / 192 pages / January 2011 19
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Emili Teixidor The longseller author for the young authors
A group of schoolmates is spending their weekend in a mountain hut, but one of the girls mysteriously disappears after watching a shadow passing by the window. Desperate, all the friends start to investigate. But suddenly another girl disappears as well... Policemen, pshychologists, teachers and, above all friends, join forces to solve the mystery of the disappearances. And to find out that, quite often, appearances can be deceptive...
Emili Teixidor (Roda del Ter, 1933) is an educator and writer, although he has also studied law, philosophy, literature and journalism. In fact, he splits his professional work between education, literature, cinema, television and theatre. Amongst other prizes he has won the Premi de la Generalitat de Literatura Infantil, the Premio de la Crítica, the Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, and the Sant Jordi for fiction. A writer for young people and adults, Teixidor easily succumbs to two temptations: letting adventure loose and using high-minded language if it fits. According to him, words become a mystery in the minds of their readers and it is this mystery that pushes some to getting to know them better.
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El crimen de la Tangente follows the adventures of the inspector Arveja, main character of the series started with El crimen de la Hipotenusa, with more than 50,000 copies sold. A thriller that catches the young reader, while praising courage, frienship and comradeship. Emili Teixidor has been awarded with several awards, like the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Sant Jordi, and was the Spanish candidate to the Andersen. 14 years +
The Tangent Crime Planeta Lector / 184 pages / March 2011 21
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Fernando Argenta & Jvlivs Pequeña historia de la música takes us on a fascinating journey, beginning in Prehistory and moving onto the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, the twentieth century and more recent trends. Packed with curious anecdotes and rigorously researched content, this is a small but comprehensive work that includes biographies of the most famous composers, accounts of the evolution of instruments and a description of the relationship between each musical movement and its historical period.
A new title from the Espasa collection of short histories (Pequeña historia del mundo, Pequeña historia de la pintura, Pequeña historia de España, Pequeñas historias de la Biblia) very popular in Spain and in Korea. An amusing way of teaching children the history of music, from the classical authors to rock and pop from the 21st century. Anecdotes and funny stories of composers to make children love music. 12 years +
A Short History of Music Espasa / 256 pages / January 2011 Fernando Argenta has played in a rock band, has a degree in Law, and has studied Music in the Real Conservatorio in Madrid. He has organized, presented and directed popular concerts, and has written several books about music that have become huge bestsellers.
Jvlivs has a degree in Advertising. After strolling around the advertising world, he moved to graphic humour. As an illustrator, he has published twelve books, amongst them Mi primer Quijote, Pequeña historia de España and Pequeña historia del mundo.
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The first novel of a new author that will surprise all readers
Mercedes Cairol
A poetical book for children 8 years +
Marina is six years old and loves to collect colored caps, buttons, shells and many other things that she likes to keep in glass jars. Her most valuable collection is a rubbers’ one, because with rubbers she can erase everything she doesn’t like in this world.
Rubbers L’Odissea / 32 pages / September 2010 Mercè Cairol is a primary school teacher at the Aula school. One of her passions is to write tales and poetry to work on class with her pupils. This is the first book that she has decided to publish.
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Isabel Córdova & Mª Jesús Santos Laura and Manolo love horror movies and they boast about never being afraid. But the truth is that they have nightmares, and they don’t dare to confess it. That’s why they decide to organize the «21st Century Club», to help those who suffer with terrible thoughts and images.
Filled with magic and terror, becomes a funny way of facing your fears. A book about two friends who pretend something they are not, but help everyone to gain more confidence. Translated into Thai. 10 years +
The Silly Box of Laura and Manolo Planeta Lector / 224 pages / March 2011 Isabel Córdova was born in Huancayo (Perú). She is a journalist and a critic in several media. She has successfully published stories for children and young readers. Amongst her better known books, we can highlight: Pirulí, Ada nunca tiene miedo, Tinko y Gabi en el Amazonas, Pepo
y el delfín rosa and El zoo de verano. Some of her books have been translated into several languages. Her work has been awarded with several prizes, like the one of the Banco del Libro of Venezuela.
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A magic book filled with poetry and sea stories.
Juan Farias & Maria Guitart
Juan Farias, a sailor and a writer, spreads his love for the sea in a beautifully illustrated book. Short stories for the younger readers.
Letting oneself go for the magic of a simple blue ribbon, surviving to an almost eternal dream or keeping a unique but wonderful memory after sailing through a hundred seas, are some of the great stories in this book. Juan Farias, the sailor-writer, gives us nine tales that captivates the reader because of its poetic tone, and that means something to all of us, and not only to children.
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Some Children, Three Dogs and More Things Planeta Lector / 80 pages / March 2011 Juan Farias I was born in Galicia, by the sea. I was a crew member of one of the latest big sailboats and a wanderer, of the sort who walks by feet, who watches sunsets, grape harvests, towers, storks in spires and things like that. I wanted to be a dancer because dancing is like flying, but, finally, I stopped walking one
day, returned home and sat down to write. I have five children, some award for my books and a craze: keep on wandering. However, I do it now for the books and the ideas, that are also worth it. Maria Guitart was born in Barcelona in 1978. She writes, edits and illustrates books. Her favourite animal is the crocodrile. 25
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A fresh and funny story that catches the reader from the first lines.
Ana Galán
The account, in first person, and through the voice of the boy, helps the identification of the readers with the main character.
What if they forced you to leave everything behind... to move to New York? «Three years in New York!?» When my parents told my sister and me that we were about to move to New York... I just couln’t believe it!! What would happen with my friends? And with my football team? And with Alejandra? No. I didn’t want to go. There was no reason why. However, almost without noticing it, I was already in my high school, with a new group of friends, speaking an almost perfect English... and into more than one simple mess!
A different way to introduce young readers into North American culture and show them the differences and the things in common with ours. 14 years +
Three Years in New York Destino Infantil / 256 pages / March 2011 Ana Galán was born in Oviedo. She spent her childhooh and most of her youth in Madrid. In 1989, she moved to New York, where she got married, had three children and started her career as a writer, and editor and a translator of books. In the few occasions when she is not in front of her
computer writing, she coaches and plays with her labrador retriever to help him become a great guide-dog for the blind.
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A novel about the cruelty of wars through the point of view of two children
Alicia Gili & Silvia Romero In Brouko, a small village in the north of the Ivory Coast, Aura, who is thirteen years old, and her brother Ouattarà, who is eleven, play football with an improvised ball made out of rags and plastic bags. Suddenly, a tank and a group of 4x4s full of soldiers interrupt the game and change their lives forever. They will be separated by a conflict they don’t understand and turned into child soldiers. As the years pass, they will keep up a harrowing correspondence, telling each other about the brutal paths their lives have taken. This is a novel that will shake the reader to the core and make them reflect on the horrors of a war that is, like all wars, unjust.
Even though the story is a very hard one, it is told through the language of two young kids, approaching this subject to the reader, of the same age A pacifist book settled in the world of child soldiers 14 years +
The Path of the Red Bandama Columna Jove / 168 pages / March 2010 A casual encounter on the web page relatsencatala.com and a common affinity for the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, brought the literary destinies of the writers Alicia Gili and Silvia Romero together. To date they have jointly written Jocs de guerra, cosa d’infants (a book
decrying the crisis of child soldiers), the fantasy novel Iskander, Un viatge a la màgia dels llibres (Premi Lleida per a Projecte de Novel·la 2006) and this book, El camí del Bandama Vermell (Premi Columna Jove 2010).
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Carlos Goñi & Cristina Losantos The day she turns eleven, Paula receives a very special gift: it’s The Magic Game of Snakes and Ladders. Without knowing the reason why, Paula enters a mysterious world full with dangers and eccentric personages. In her trip through the fascinating board of the Snakes and Ladders game, she will realize that dreams may come true.
The latest title from Carlos Goñi, an author very good at teaching philosophy and Classic culture to all ages. A lovely birthday gift to stimulate the imagination of the reader. A dreamy book filled with fantasy and magic characters. 10 years +
From the Labyrinth to 30 Planeta Lector / 192 pages / March 2011 Carlos Goñi Zubieta I am a Philosophy teacher and a great lover of Classic culture. I started writing for my pupils with the main intention of making my subject closer and funnier for them. Del laberinto al 30 was conceived as a birthday gift for my daughter Paula: I am sure that she will be much surprised.
Cristina Losantos I have been illustrating books for more than twenty years now. When I am not working I like reading, like the rabbit in square 24, walk through a beautiful garden like the one in the 56, or open up my Snakes and Ladders and shake the shaker.
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Winner of the 2010 edition of the Apel·les Mestres award for children literature.
Nahir Gutiérrez & Álex Omist There are many things that children want to know about but we don’t know how to properly explain. Very often this is because we are caught off-guard but also because no really important question ever has a single answer. This story arose from the firm wish to capture a memory, swelled with the surprising questions that only children know how to ask and is only a small part of the galaxy of answers we can offer our loved ones. ¿Dónde está güelita Queta? is an exploration of loss, always difficult, and for children brutally inexplicable, and is also an homage and trail of breadcrumbs leading towards learning to remember those who are gone and finding ways to keep them present forever.
A wonderful story to support parents into helping their child to accept the loss of a loved one. A book that moves the younger and the adults. 5 years +
Where is Granny Queta? Destino Infantil / 36 pages / January 2011 Nahir Gutiérrez was born in Turón (Asturias), although she grazes in Barcelona since she was one. Since 1993, she works in what she likes the most: communication and books. She has published two beautiful children, and this is her second book for the younger readers, after Hipólito y Serafín. Álex Omist (Barcelona, 1974), studied in the Escuela Superior de Diseño Elisava. After graduating, he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in several
publishing houses and advertising agencies. In 2006, he illustrates his first short story, Orson y el bosque de las sombras. Since then, he has published several books for children, amongst which, El cuerno y el centro de la luna and Hipólito y Serafín.
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Pau Joan Hernández is a very famous author in Catalan young adults’ literature
Pau Joan Hernández
A close approach to the world of teenagers, with a main character full with insecurities that will do his best to discover the mystery
Quel, a seventeen-year old boy who works at his father’s vehicle repair shop, keeps on telling everyone that «girls always go away». He feels abandoned and cheated, and this is the reason why he decides to lead a life where girls don’t fit. However, a series of events will make him meet Laura again, rediscover Melany and solve the mystery of the Dead Lady. And just like that, by sheer chance, Quel’s life goes from black and white to the brightest colors.
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The Peak of the Dead Lady L’Odissea / 168 pages / June 2010 Pau Joan Hernández (Barcelona, 1967) is the prototype of precocious literary vocation: he was only eighteen when he published Tot et serà pres. Amongst his works, we can highlight L’ombra del Stuka (Serra d’Or Award 1999 and Award of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes 2000) and Porta falsa.
In 2005 he was awarded with the Premi Columna Jove for El misteri de les quatre punyalades.
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Daniel Hernández Chambres
An adventure story with monks, abbeys and a terrible mystery. The author has written a love and friendship story that catches the reader quickly with its interesting plot. A thriller and a historical novel written for young adults.
Laura and Gabriel hate each other, but they are forced to spend their summer together, a month that looks to them as a long and dull one, but that will finally turn out as thrilling and dangerous, in a place full with legends... A lost book. A ship adrift. An old ruined abbey. A dead man. A young monk that will face a terrible decision.
12 years +
The Astaroth Codex Planeta Lector / 224 pages /March 2011 Daniel Hernández Chambres lives in Alicante, but he was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He hasn’t stopped publishing novels since he was a runner-up for the 2006 Gran Angular award with La ciudad gris.
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A novel with animals as the main characters A funny story that will approach the world of art and painting to the young reader
Josep Lluch
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Nicole, Janine, Pascal and Janko are a group of cats that usually meet at the roofs in Paris. Janko, besides of being red-haired and a lover of the paintings and the painters of Montmartre is also a gossip. So gossip that one day his curiosity will change the fate of a painter without success but with a new style that will change the History of Art and turn it upside down.
The Cat of Montmartre L’Odissea / 48 pages / May 2010 Josep Lluch (Terrassa, 1963) has a long career in the world of children literature. Amongst his titles we can find La Sol i en Pol or L’oca, la gallina i el món rodó.
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A book for all ages
Àngels Navarro The book consists of twentyfour labyrinths in twenty-four different pages. Each page is cut into three parts that can be interchanged, which makes a total of 1728 possible labyrinths. Each labyrinth will be a 2-D image of sand, wood, bricks, paint, grass or plasticine. The labyrinths are all different, each one follows a different pattern. That is, it’s not the same labyrinth made with a different material. However all the possible labyrinths coincide in the cuts (i.e. the path to follow when the image of the labyrinth gets to the horizontal cut of the page coincides in the same position in each labyrinth).
The author is an expert in books for brain training A book without text, only with 3D illustrations An original idea to play with the family
Labyrinths Estrella Polar / 24 pages / November 2010 Àngels Navarro was born in Barcelona in 1958. She has a degreee in Psychology and specialized in psychomotricity and therapy through games. She works as a usual contributor to the the puzzles and crossword section in El Periódico de Catalunya, and in the magazines Escuela and Cavall Fort. The success of her publications have consolidated her as one
of the most important specialists in wit games and mental training in Spain.
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A very realistic story about the first time that a young boy has to face the idea of death
Víctor Panicello
Even though it is a hard subject, it is told through the words and feelings of a young boy
Saturday, it’s late in the morning and Toni still sleeps. Suddenly, his father wakes him up, he looks devastated; his sister Marga is entering his bedroom too. They have to tell him something terrible: Lluis, his brother has had a severe accident with his motorcycle and is dead. Toni doesn’t know how to cope with this news, he doesn’t know what is his role with the rest of the family. This novel tells the hours after the accident and describes the feelings and the relationships amongst the family members, the mourning, the funeral, the burial…
14 years +
Death Leaves Scars Columna Jove / 160 pages / May 2010 Víctor Panicello was born in Barcelona in 1963 and has a degree in Law by the Universitat de Barcelona. As a writer, he stands for his prose for the young adults’ readers, with realistic stories, full with situations that young readers might feel really close to their own lives. He has published
several books, like Tot despertant la Lluna and Des de Saturn.com (Premi Ciutat de Badalona 2003).
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The author is a very famous film producer (8 citas, El otro lado de la cama, El invierno en Lisboa,...)
José Vicuña
A fashionable subject, fantasy and science fiction; the fight between two worlds, and a love at first sight between the main characters of each world.
A story filled with fantasy and adventure, halfway between Star Wars and Avatar. Daniel thinks he is a strange guy. Looking for his origins, he will find himself involved in a frienship plot (the Jenofes), a discovery of other living and rational beings (the Lokthrans), love (Inanna, a young Lokthran with many things in common with him), fights to rule the world, and a series of tests that the group of friends shall have to pass in order to get the Sacred Star of Elil and save the planet.
A story full with fantasy and adventure, half way between Star Wars and Avatar. 12 years +
The Lokthrans. The Guardians of the Ocean Espasa / 336 pages / April 2011 José Sáinz de Vicuña has been the producer of more than one hundred films with the best Spanish directors. Right now, he is also a TV and theatre producer. Los Lokthrans is his first novel, but he is already writing the next one.
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