Foreign Rights Catalogue Bologna 2018

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Frida Kahlo The two Fridas Gianluca FolĂŹ

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Fo re i g n R i g h t s National Prize for Publishing 2011 Spanish Ministry of Culture Bologna Prize Best Children's Publisher of the year 2015 www.librosdelzorrorojo.com

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New Title Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas Illustrations:

Gianluca Folì

Frida Kahlo kept a journal during the last ten years of her life (1944-1954). In it she records dreams, thoughts, memories and ideas that she later expressed in her paintings, in addition to numerous drawings and sketches.

This surprising and intimate document, which was kept under lock and key for approximately forty years, contains multiple signs of the complex personality of this renown Mexican artist.

The Two Fridas is an illustrated album where for the first time Frida’s voice is heard to tell us concisely and poignantly one of her first memories of her childhood: her friendship, at six years old, with an imaginary friend.

Age 6 and up; 210 x 280 mm; 24 pgs. Hardback

“I don’t remember her appearance, nor her colour.

But I do know that she was happy, she laughed a lot. Silently. She was agile and danced as if she was completely weightless.” Frida Kahlo

Gianluca Folì Rome, 1978. From a young age he showed a strong interest in drawing and painting.

Since 2001 he has worked in advertising for various international magazines. In 2007 he won the Applied Art Awards prize. He begins his exploration of the world of children’s book illustration with The Bear with the Sword, published in 2008, which was chosen among the 100 best books at the CJ Picture Books Awards of Korea and at the White Raven in Munich. Gianluca develops a eastern-inspired, minimalist style with a rich palette of colours and brilliant lines suspended in wide spaces of white.

New Title Gioconda Belli When Laugh Bloomed Illustrated by

Alicia Baladan

When Laugh Bloomed is a story especially written

by Gioconda Belli for the album collection Libros de Cordel, of Libros del Zorro Rojo, a series gathering texts of important authors such as Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, Eduardo Galeano, Mario Benedetti, Antonio Skármeta and José Saramago.

In this story, Belli shares a legend about the birth of laugh, which background is the tropical jungle and its remote secrets. Together with the games started by the main characters and Nature, Alicia Baladán has created a set of illustrations which are distinguished for their singular beauty.

Age 4 and up; 225 x 330 mm; 24 pgs. Hardback

“In the always humid jungle of the tropics, where cosy trees live, shelter of orchids and climbers, one day Enea and Alia got down off the top of the Ceiba and realized they were the first man and woman.”

Alicia Baladan Treinta y tres, Uruguay, 1969. She studied illustration in Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, and took part in important exhibitions and festivals for animated cinema and image experimentation of the Care-off Contemporary Art Centre in Milan. She collaborated with Stalker Multimedia on the carrying out of cultural projects in different museums. Her works were shown at the itinerant exhibition Blue Book Group 2010. Among her works stand out A Guarani Tale (Mention to the best South American illustration 2010), Cielo bambino (Selection of the Portuguese Illustration Biennial 2011), La leggerezza perduta and Tales from Shakespeare.

Antonio Skármeta The Blue Flower Illustrated by

Mariona Cabassa

The Blue Flower is a poem especially written by Antonio Skármeta for the album collection Libros del Cordel, of Libros del Zorro Rojo, a series gathering texts of important authors such as Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, Eduardo Galeano, Mario Benedetti, Gioconda Belli and José Saramago.

From the dialogue between a girl and a flower, Skármeta creates a delicate tale about Beauty and its stay in the World. Mariona Cabassa’s illustrations interpret with extremely sensitivity the main characters’ emotions and experiences, and offer one of her most outstanding and deep works.

Age 6 and up; 210 x 280 mm; 24 pgs. Hardback

“Daniela went out to the garden. And when the full moon came The flower was so big . That she lay on it.”

Mariona Cabassa Barcelona, Spain, 1967. She studied Illustration and Design at the Massana School in Barcelona, where she was awarded the Extraordinary Prize 2000, and at the Strasburg and Marseille Schools of Arts. Her works, published in Spain, France, Italy, England and Portugal, were recognized at the Junceda Prizes; in 2003 for Story to tell while eating a fried egg and in 2009 for Guess Riddle I have a Scratch in my Belly. In 2005 she was selected to take part at the Ilustrísimos exhibition, of the Bologna Fair, and for the 22nd International Exhibition of Illustration of Fondazione Cassamarca. In 2010 she won the Compostela International Prize for Picture Books for The Family C.

New Title

Crossover; 130 x 180 mm; 96 pgs. Spiral book binding

Noborders Imapla This is both a book and a game for kids of a new (and better) world. A flip flap book to play with a range of flags and country names. With each turn of either the top or bottom half-page flap, readers will be able to create more than 1000 imaginary flags and country names.

A very simple but compelling book that will make the whole family enjoy the freedom of migrating colours and words.

Currently in the world, there are 193 internationally recognised states. The random selection of 45 countries for this book was made taking into account a suitable representation of all the continents.

Imapla After studying Graphic Design in Barcelona, she collaborated with a number of Spanish magazines, newspapers and advertising media, which led her to develop her own style, combining design with illustration. A few years ago she decided to carry on as an author, mainly of children’s books. In 2007, she received the International Illustration Award of SM Foundation.

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New Title Ivan the Fool Lev Tolstói Illustrations:

Decur

A ferocious spread of calamities puts the nobility to the test and the love of Ivan the Stupid, whose surname refers to the pejorative way with which common sense understands a decision not based in pure pragmatism and the accumulation of material goods. Tolstói reclaims in this incredibly rich fable the hope of a better society.

The illustrations of Decur work on a scene of apparent childish traits, while, at the same time, it brings forward worrisome elements whose conceptual depth is directed at the reflection of the adult reader, who comes to realize that, in the world that surrounds us, appearances deceive.

165 x 240 mm; 120 pgs. Hardback with Jacket

Decur Rosario, 1981. At eighteen years old he published his first comic strip. In 2009 he met Liniers, who invited him to participate in his strip Macanudo, in the newspaper La Nación.

He publishes bimonthly in the magazine La Murciélaga and is a member of the digital magazine Bonete. With his works Merci! (2011) and ¡Pipí Cucú! (2013) he shares the spotlight with Mafalda and Quino in the mythic Ediciones de la Flor publishing house. His work has been shown in cities like Lyon, Santiago of Chile, Buenos Aires and Rosario.

“The old devil hardened up upon seeing that the three brothers had not fought when handing out his father’s goods […].

Then he called three little devils and told them, ‘Go see if they manage to fight until the take out their eyes.

Could you do it?’. ‘Of course’, the devils responded as a chorus…”

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New Title Ray Bradbury Dragon Illustrations:

Svetlin Vassilev

We revisit this famous story by Ray D. Bradbury, one of the greatest examples of the science fiction genre in the 20th century. In Dragon two themes commonly found in fantasy stories are meld together: the mythological figure and the speculation about time.

The story places the reader in an unreal setting, materialized in the lifeless wasteland, where the silence and disintegration appear to drag the characters to a disturbing state of mind that confuses the past and future.

Age 6 and up; 210 x 280 mm; 24 pgs. Hardback

“This dragon, they say his eyes are fire... He runs with sulphur and thunder and kindles the grass. Sheep panic and die insane.”

Vassilev Svetlin Rouse (Bulgaria), 1954. He has studied at the Intermediate Academy of Arts ‘Tc. Lavrenov” in Plovdiv (1985-1990) and at the National Academy of Fine Arts “N. Pavlovich” in Sofia (1990-1996). As an illustrator, his work has been successfully published in Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, France, USA, Korea, Taiwan. He has participated in several exhibitions in Greece, Slovakia, Italy, Iran, Japan and Spain. He was also awarded with the State Children’s Illustration Honour Award in 2004, for Don Quixote, and with the EBGE and the Golden EBGE illustration award for Peter Pan in 2010. Svetlin has lived and worked in Greece since 1997.

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New Title The Horla and other horror tales

Guy de Maupassant Illustrations:

Mauro Cascioli

A triad of stories that probe the fissures of reality through which dark and disturbing elements are cast, such as hallucinations, anguish, the sinister, and madness. The underside of the peaceful everyday lurks, indomitable, ready to take the leap to tear apart the substance on which the subject constructs what he naively considers irreversible: his own being.

The worrisome personal experiences of the life of Maupassant make literature worthy of a dark romanticism through which he shares his concerns and genius.

180 x 265 mm; 96pgs. Hardback with Jacket

Mauro Cascioli Buenos Aires, 1978. He began working as a professional illustrator at the age of fourteen.

He has developed an intense labor in the art of comics which has lead him to release his work with publishers the size of Marvel or DC Comics. His drawings create universes of a fascinating and, at the same time, terrifying sensuality. In them light is a source of concern like a photograph negative of spatial black holes.

“How profound is this mystery of the Invisible! We can’t explore it with our own poor senses, without eyes that don’t know how to perceive neither the tiny nor the enormous, nor what is very close nor very far, nor the inhabitants of a star nor the inhabitants of a drop of water…”

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New Title The invisible man H. G.Wells Illustrations:

Luis Scafati

Originally published in 1897 as a serialised novel, in this work H.G. Wells describes the contradictions of a young and brilliant researcher who, relieved of all ethics by his recently acquired invisibility, makes use of his condition to quench his thirst of dominance for personal gain.

The illustrations of Luis Scafati admirably recreate the ill-fated environment of a society disturbed by the conduct of those who act with total impunity when they are not seen. A reflection on the limits of justice and human ethics and on the terrible consequences of the misuses of science.

165 x 240 mm; 208 pgs. Hardback with Jacket

“He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid everyinch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.�

Luis Scafati Mendoza, Argentina, 1947. Studied Art at the National University of Cuyo. His work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Frankfurt and Madrid and forms part of the collections of major museums in Buenos Aires; it is also owned by the House of Humour and Satire (Bulgaria), the Collection of Cartoons (Switzerland) and the University of Essex (England).

His work has been published in Brazil, Czech Republic, England, France, Greece, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Spain and Turkey. He won the Grand Prix of Honour at the National Comics Salon (Buenos Aires, 1981).

New Title!

165 x 240 mm; 72 pgs. Hardback with dust jacket

Aura Carlos Fuentes Illustrations: Alejandra Acosta From the very first lines, you will be absorbed in this game of mirrors that will see the reader reflected in the protagonist and will immerse you in the unsettling atmosphere of Aura, riddled with ambiguous shadows and murky silences. You will walk, with muffled steps, through the captivating enviroment of an old manor house which draws the shilouette of a labyrinth outside of time.

After two decades without reprint, Aura is once again being published in Spain. The illustrations of Alejandra Acosta intensify contrasts and give tangible form to this mirage, like an oasis that invites the reader to enter its shifting sands.

“You won’t look at your watch again, this useless object that falsely measures a time in agreement with human vanity, these hands that tediously mark the long hours, invented to deceive true time the time which passes with an insulting speed, mortal, that no watch or clock can gauge.”

Alejandra Acosta Santiago de Chile, 1975. Graphic designer and illustrator, lives and works in Santiago de Chile. She teaches at the School of Design of the University of Development and is professor of Management and Production of Illustrated Publications at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She has obtained on several occasions the medal at the Chilean Section of IBBY.

New Title!

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Illustrated by

Enrique Breccia

His partiticipation, the age of thirthy-three, in the massacre of the Congo in the name of the Belgian King, Leopold II, was an irreversible experience for Conrad, who, regretful and disenchanted with his naïve ideals of youth, lays bare the noble European cause and the pillaging spirit of the Empires in this novel.

165 x 240 mm; 160 pgs. Hardback with Jacket

Marlow, the author’s alter ego, narrates an ancient journey into the depths of the African jungle, where he must meet with the mysterious leader of an ivory exploitation operation, whose methods are harming the company’s interest; Kurtz, an implacable, cruel figure, venerated by the natives, whose presence grows as the story progresses. Breccia’s art expresses with singular mastery the tensions of Conrad’s story between the latent and brutal forces of the human condition and the indomitable darkness of the jungle.

Enrique Breccia Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1945. He is the author of such emblematic works in the comic genre as The Life of Che (1969); Alvar Mayor (1976); The Travels of Marco Mono (1981) and Lope de Aguirre (1989). He has published Lovecraft (2002) for the DC Comic publishing house, who also published his famous collaborations for the series Batman: Gotham Knights (2001) and Swamp Thing (2004). In 1963 he won the Gold Medal at the Salon of the Argentinean Cartoonists Association and the 1983 Pléyade Prize for the best graphic production of the year.

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New Title Life is a Dream Calderón de la Barca Illustrations:

Gabriel Grün

The greatest work of Calderon and one of the most important theatrical pieces of the Spanish Golden Age. The great dilemma of fatalist free will is addressed with finesse by one of the greatest geniuses of dramaturgy.

About the blurred boundary between life and dreams, the conscience affirms itself as an element capable of overcoming the vicissitudes of any circumstance.

In that territory, philosophy and poetry coexist as complements of a matter fully shaped by thought and language. The precious painting by Gabriel Grün dialogue with the baroque elements at play and with the surrealist components inherent to all dreams.

165 x 240 mm; 160 pgs. Hardback with Jacket

Gabriel Grün Buenos Aires, 1978. He lived in Spain and currently resides in Florence. Of an autodidactic nature, his stunning work of oil painting – based on the key principal of Gombirch: “art is nourished by art more than by nature” – he continues the technique of the masters of the Renaissance and the Baroque, like Rembrandt, Durer or Van Eyck. To them he adds fascinating surrealist elements, “I have always appreciated the surrealist capacity to emulate the real world and play with it, the sense of being able to add something”.

“What is life? A frenzy. What is life?

A fiction, a shadow, an illusion, and the greatest good is small; all of life is a dream and dreams, dreams are…”