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Mosquito Books Barcelona, SL c/ Ramรณn y Cajal 44, bajos 08012 Barcelona info@mosquitobooksbarcelona.com www.mosquitobooksbarcelona.com
CATALOGUE 2017 - 2018
·M · We love paper. We are drawn to beautiful things. We read, write and draw whatever we feel like. We smell books, even the ones that aren’t old. We’re crazy about bookshops and libraries. If it has talent, we publish it. Our books are for children... are they?... that’s up to you
Non fiction project Little but with big ideas, we only have two rules: an extreme care of our aesthetic criteria and high quality illustrated books. From here on, we have decided to debunk some clichĂŠs. If we spot talent and art, we feel that we have to share it. We want to move you and, since we are pathologically restless, we create books for curious and creative minds.
Don’t let us tell you the entire story. Become the author. Imagine and create stories for our pages. Play with your imagination and reach as far as you’d like. Beauty is not trivial. We are strongly committed to beautiful things. Art, look and style for all ages. Everyday things are the most extraordinary ones.
We are colour and drawing lovers.
We like turning normal things into amazing experiences that can make us travel around the word.
Disorganization is not chaos. Chaos can only be managed by a genius. Open our books on any page. Put the book aside for a while and discover it again. Re-read them again and again.
The four corners of the globe are our white pages.
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Jungles Format: 275 x 355 mm Pages: 50 Hardcover
Illustrator: Marcos Navarro / Author: Mia Cassany
Jungles is the first title of a series of books which are going to have both, a powerful look and an incredible content. The reader will learn about many different jungles around the globe at the same time as he dicover many hidden animals and surprises in each spread. It is a full of detail book, in its text as well as in the drawings. Marcos Navarro is an awesome artist with an innovative style, which we believe it will be the trend. He absolutely knows how to have fun with colours and how to make readers feel his drawing are unique.
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Eternal Animals draft COVER
Format: 235 x 325 mm Pages: 40 Hardcover
Illustrator: Nacho Eterno / Author: Mia Cassany
This stunning book is an amazing voyage throught animals of history in many different civilizations and the legends and stories that are beyond all these animals. The first touch the reader gets from our history discovering the tales of the mythological animals. Everlasting animals and symbols that have many secrets to explain...
Nacho Eterno is a multifaceted artist with a strong style that can catch both the adult and children’s attention. He has worked for the NY Times several times.
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Streets of my Life Format: 235 x 325 mm Pages: 40 Hardcover Illustrator: AgustĂ Sousa / Author: Mia Cassany
This book is an amazing journey throught the streets of the world. Each of them absolutely full of its own personality. Discover a big range of curiosities that the different streets of the globe can show the reader. Are you ready for and astonishing trip? AgustĂ Sousa is an artist with a personal and sharp style. His drawings are easily recognizable and he has the surprising ability to hypnotize with all the millions of details in his pages.
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365 Animals draft COVER
Format: 235 x 325 mm Pages: 40 Hardcover
Author: Edward Gibbs
This book is a special book in which the reader will be able to find 365 animals in each spread and in many different and funny situations and locations. It is stunning how the animals are placed in all the pages and also, there are other surprises to discover. Do you want to know which animal are you? Edward Gibbs is a well known artist, with many different titles that have been successful. He has published books for some of the most important publishing houses, creating strong and powerful series of books.
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Animal Kind Format: 235 x 325 mm SOLD
in English, French and German
Pages: 72 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945616-6-5
Author and Illustrator Pablo Salvaje.
Alma animal is the book that we’d always wanted to have in our shelves; so we had to create it. More than 250 different animal species, grouped in the most poetic way, telling the most surprising animal curiosities. Each animal is a handmade stamp, done one by one and ink stamped with extreme delicacy. A unique book in the world, crammed with animals and overflowing with soul. A delightful publication created by the well-known stamp artist Pablo Salvaje. He has turned this book into a handmade carved jewel.
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Houses Format: 235 x 325 mm SOLD
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in French and English
Mia Cassany Paula Blumen
Pages: 40 Hardcover
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ISBN: 978-84-945616-2-7
Illustrator: Paula Blume / Author: Mia Cassany
As in a school playground, where every kid is one-off/unique, the same happens to the cities and their houses. Each house has its own personality, unrepeatable and different from the rest. They have a soul, which has nothing to do with their style, their size or their luxury… it is the feeling that they make you feel when you go in... created by their guests or environment. Take a walk around the four corners of the world through the most amazing, incredible and astonishing homes. Paula Blume is an extremely delicate illustrator, who walks through streets catching the houses’ souls. She is a true house lover.
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Harbors Format: 235 x 325 mm SOLD
in English, French and German
Pages: 40 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945616-8-9
Author and Illustrator Victor Medina
We think that harbors are the great unknown in each city; they go unnoticed in front of big monuments, famous squares or elegant streets. But we have fallen in love with harbors and we think that they are as amazing as the most renowned museums. They are true giants full of adventure, movement and unbelievable stories. In this book, we invite you to travel around the globe jumping from harbour to harbour, from the tinniest ones to the most enormous and extraordinary ones‌
Victor Medina has a great 50’s art, which combines the finest drawings with an amazing use of colour to create this personal and eye-catching style.
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Full up Format: 235 x 325 mm SOLD
in English and German
Pages: 40 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945556-5-7
Illustrator: Miguel Bustos / Author: Mia Cassany
A great book about a little boy willing to find love everywhere who ends up finding friendship. It is not going to be easy to go through the pages of this book quickly. Miguel Bustos, is a big fun of motley spaces. He fills everyday places with funny and original characters. This book is full up in all its meanings, it is crammed with characters, activities, humour, art and stories on every page. It is finished using two-colour printing techniques. A daring book that will make you want to open it again and again. With more than 470 funny activities, games and questions to maximize 6 of the most important children’s mental abilities.
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HISTORIA DESORDENADA DEL ARTE
Messy Art Story
draft COVER
Format: 290 x 300 mm Pages: 98
SOLD
in English, French and German
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Hardcover
Illustrator: Brianda Frizt-James/ Author: Pedro Calleja - Plom Gallery Press
6 centuries of Art history 13 superpowerfull painters 2 iconoclastic villains and an adventure with jumps over time Games, illustrations and 13 different adventures to make the little readers discover the big artist they have inside. A messy route among the art world through some of its most famous artists, full of surprises and inevitable educational.
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1920-2010 Décadas de Arte y Locura
Crazy years Format: 235 x 325 mm Pages: 40
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Mia Cassany Gonzalo Muiño M ·O · S ·Q · U · I ·T · O
Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945616-0-3
Illustrator: Gonzalo Muiño / Author: Mia Cassany
This book is a visual journey through the great decades of the twentieth century. On its astonishing pages, while being delighted by its dreamy drawings, you can find references to art, history, cinema, fashion, music or celebrities. You can dive as deep as you’d like. You can investigate or learn as much as you feel like… or you can just enjoy a visual trip around the different decades. Gonzalo Muiño is a fashion expert, with an incredible subtlety and ability to put together all the references in one decade in an amazing poster… and he can even make this look easy…
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Manual del Pintamonas Format: 190 x 250 mm Pages: 60 Softcover ISBN: 978-84-945556-7-1
Illustrator: Asis Percales/ Author: Mia Cassany
One of the most funny books in our catalogue. Modern and street art get together in the pages of this activity and coloring book to make stressed minds relax. In the pages of this books you will for sure get away from routines and bad vibes. With great humor and strong illustrations Asis Percales is one of the most growing artists in Barcelona. With a personal and powerful style many of the most important brands are working with him and he will be the one covering our life with humor and art.
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(Not) Ordinary People Format: 230 x 300 mm Pages: 40 Hardcover Author: Mikel Casal
After the big success of his first book, Frankfurt, Mikel Casal goes one step forward creating the most ordinary and at the same time, special book ever. It is a book about the everyday people that we see or meet, normal friends with their day-to-day routines... but if you know how to look better, if you meet them, you will discover that each of them has something magical that makes them unique. Mikel Casal was the best non-fiction illustrator in the Bologna Fair 2016 and he was awarded the Euskadi Award of Illustration 2016.
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Beautiful Rita, Fatty Cat and Rita Bonita, Gato Gordo
the end of
y el fin del mundo
the world Amaya Ascunce María Hesse
Format: 255 x 235 mm
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Pages: 32 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945616-4-1
Illustrator: María Hesse / Author: Amaya Ascunce
Beautiful Rita is a beautiful girl, but she hates being called like this. Her cat clearly eats a little too much, and the end of the world… or almost… seems the best adventure to be in during a Saturday evening. A cute and ironic story about kids imagination while playing. María Hesse is a well know Spanish illustrator whose last book is now in its 8th reprint in less than a year.
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Atlas of the non-existing places Format: 235 x 325 mm Pages: 40 SOLD
in English, French, German and
Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945556-3-3
Chinese
Illustrator: Ana de Lima / Author: Mia Cassany
Travelling to the most faraway places, enchanted islands or wonderful depths‌ This is an electrifying and delicate atlas that travels through dreams to the most beautiful places. Ana de Lima is an oneiric artist that knows how to create and make up lands where one would like to travel to‌
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Frankfurt Format: 255 x 235 mm SOLD
in English, and French
Pages: 32 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-939905-9-6
Illustrator: Mikel Casal / Author: Mia Cassany
Frankfurt is a nice dog with an undeniable and impeccable style. He could live perfectly in peace if it wasn’t for one horrible word… but do not worry… everything has a solution and this one was just in front of our snouts. Mikel Casal was the best non-fiction illustrator in the Bologna Fair 2016 and he was awarded the Euskadi Award of Illustration 2016.
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Illustrated jobs Format: 255 x 235 mm Pages: 32 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945556-1-9
Illustrator: Elisa Munsó / Author: Mia Cassany
Sometimes I ask myself what I should do when I grow up… It is hard to find an answer because some days I want to be in the water, other days I prefer to visit the stars… A beautiful book with a clear vintage look drawn by Elisa Munsó, an illustrator, graphic designer, gallery owner and creator of one of the most distinctive styles in Barcelona.
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Greta and her lost ear Format: 255 x 235 mm ESTE LIBRO MOLA TANTO QUE VAMOS POR LA
2a
Pages: 32
EDICIÓN
SOLD
in Korean
Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-939905-6-5
Illustrator: Anna Grimal / Author: Marta Pallarès
Did you know that when you never listen to your parents, friends or teachers your ears start getting bored and they just go away? Greta didn’t know that, but suddenly, one morning… Anna Grimal is a young and promising illustrator who collaborates with the most important newspapers in our country thanks to her fresh, Mediterranean and personal art.
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Mermaid words Format: 255 x 235 mm Pages: 32 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-945556-8-8
Illustrator: Esther Gili / Author: Mia Cassany
Where do the words that we have forgotten go? It is clear that they are not on the tip of the tongue, so then? Discover, together with Vilma, the amazing story of the forgotten words and who is in charge of taking care of them. Esther Gili is one of the most popular names in illustration in Spain; her last book, Encantadas, was an absolute sales success.
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Nowaday pirates Format: 255 x 235 mm Pages: 32 Hardcover ISBN: 978-84-939905-7-2 Illustrator: Patricia Geis / Author: Mia Cassany
Ahoy! It is super easy to become a great pirate nowadays! With mobiles and cool trainers, modern pirates have lots of fun for sure! Arrrrrr! Patricia Geis is one of the most well-known illustrators in our country and in this book she offers her tender drawing to show the differences between traditional and modern pirates.
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