OQO books
catalogue 2011
Neverending Tales
2 OQO books believes in the project for the illustrated album of its own production, for the existence of a creative space for authors and illustrators with different sensitivities, making each book unique, different… Wonderful tales, contemporary authors’ proposals and legends from distinct cultures –the mysteries enclosed resist the passing of timeare combined to develop the imagination and encourage reflection and creativity through… BOOKS not only for children, ALSO FOR CHILDREN!
Collections nanOQOs collection + 2 years
page 03
O collection 3 - 7 years
page 06
Roge
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Recommended from: + 2 years + 3 years
Qontexts collection
page 17
+ 4 years + 5 years
etc.
Also available in: ES: Spanish
PT: Portuguese
GL: Galician
FR: French
IT: Italian
EU: Basque
BR: Portuguese Brazil PL: Polska
OQart collection
page 19
NL: Neerland
nanOQOs collection Tenderness and fantasy to convert little moments into great adventures full of emotion and surprises, to enjoy the first steps along the road of literature and read before reading.
+ 2 years board books 17x16 cm
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Snails Armando Quintero & André Letria 24 pages - September 2009 Five short stories, related but independent, that propose themes of interest for pre-readers: exploring the world, contemplating nature, discovering friendship… Reading the images provides situations and characters with which the reader can identify and can build his/her perspective of the world and experiment emotions, surprise, feelings…, at the same time develop understanding of relationships with others. Tales to entertain, but also to read, tell, to speak about; to establish a dialogue and action on the part of teachers, family and, definitively, to offer aesthetic and educative experiences. GL | ES FR | PT 35€ box 7,00€ each
Mr. Snail and Miss Snail Mr Snail thought he was ugly and didn’t stand out until Miss Snail found him to be handsome and, with his little horns waving in the sun, they walked and walked and talked and talked, discovering together what friendship is about that not only the garden snails…
GL | ES FR | PT
7,00€
André Letria
What a fright! Mr Snail and Miss Snail have a walk full of adventures. Fifi the dog confuses them with two chocolates and Tipsy the cat with a pair of marbles. What a fright!, they say at the same time, after coming out unscathed, thanks to them looking after each other.
Sail, Snail!
12,90€
It had rained and the sun was hiding behind a grey cloud. A beautiful day for sailing, Snail concludes. Decided, they set sail on a leaf down a little stream. He closes his eyes and dreams he is sailing down a big river until his own boat runs aground. The adventure allows him to know five innocent marked reasons to put an end to the voyage, happier than when it began.
GL | ES FR | PT
7,00€
GL | ES FR | PT
7,00€
Snail and Ant Mr Snail walks slowly and ant quickly, something which doesn’t stop them from being together always, like good friends. One day they decide to go for a swim in the lake, an outing that will allow them to get to know nature better and themselves.
Snail and Caterpillar Mr Snail was eating an enormous, tasty, green leaf. Caterpillar was eating another, the same. Eating from one side, eating from the other… suddenly they met, with unfriendly faces they began to argue: It’s mine! It’s mine!. Meanwhile the pigeon took advantage and eating from one side, eating from the other…
GL | ES FR | PT
7,00€
GL | ES FR | PT
7,00€
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O collection Tales with roots, stories with wings, limitless dialogue between authors of yesterday and today and aesthetics that are born in any corner of the planet, to arouse experiences and emotions, and to make sure that a secret friendship awaits us between the pages of each album.
3 - 7 years hardback 25x23 cm
My grandmother's house
The thousand whites of eskimos
Pep Bruno & Matteo Gubellini 36 pages - September 2011
Isabel Minhós & Madalena Matoso 36 pages - October 2011
ISBN 978-84-9871-282-7
GL | ES | EU FR | PT + 4 years
9 788498 712827
12,90€
Sometimes to travel far, the only thing needed is a gesture. As in this case, in which it is only necessary to open that little jewel. Inland immense plains, empty and white, where the bears roam await us… Throughout this album, the youngest readers will come to realize how the geographical and cultural coordinates determine our way of seeing the world.
Leave the village till you come to the valley, go into the wood and look for a solitary house with a fence around it… If you dare!
ISBN 978-84-9871-276-6
3rd PRICE FOR THE BEST EDITED
CHILDREN BOOK 2009
+ 4 years
MINISTRY OF CULTURE (SPAIN)
VISUAL PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATIONS
GL | ES | FR EU | PT | IT
9 788498 712766
In this story suspense and narrative tension are used to deal with the disturbing – but in the end amusing – day the protagonist goes through, on a day he thinks to be predictable: blow the candles out and eat his birthday cake. Humoristic brushstrokes in a tangle of clear literary and cinematographic references.
12,90€
AND CHILDREN BOOK 2010
ISBN 978-84-9871-283-4
GL | ES | FR EU | PT | IT + 4 years
9 788498 712834
13,50€
ISBN 978-84-9871-281-0
GL | ES | FR PT | IT
Have you seen the lion?
A soup of nothing
Armando Quintero & Géraldine Alibeu 48 pages - September 2011
Darabuc & Rashin Kheiriyeh 36 pages - June 2011
I’ve brought him a letter that smells like freshly cut flowers…
Foxy Mary and John Cat are two rogues who one good day get to the palace gates asking for food. There lives John rat, who does not want to give them anything, and they then offer to prepare the miser a marvellous soup: nothing soup.
Through this formula, full of lyricism, which the frog repeats to all the animals it meets, this album fills page after page with a type of puzzle of creatures in the jungle, whose answers become little clues to find out the reason the lion doesn’t hunt or eat and the reason for his obsession to reach the moon. The plastic and narrative collage confirms how a demonstration of love does not need fearful exploits.
ISBN 978-84-9871-275-9
+ 4 years 9 788498 712759
12,90€
12,90€
Empty-handed
The lion's mask
Ana Tortosa & Cecilia Varela 36 pages - May 2011
Margarita del Mazo & Paloma Valdivia 48 pages - April 2011
It’s Mario’s birthday and he’s invited Jane to tea. It’s almost time, but Jane doesn’t know what to give him. On the way, she looks for something her friend might like…
One night, Father Lion went to visit the woodpecker and asked him to make a mask light as a feather, cold as hate and red as anger.
The most beautiful is not always the most difficult to find; neither is it necessary to look very far for it. This story presents us with values that have nothing to do with those that the consumer society tries to impose on us. A book about an everlasting present: friendship.
ISBN 978-84-9871-280-3
GL | ES FR | PT
+ 4 years 9 788498 712810
GL | ES | FR PT | IT
A fable in which children learn the importance of sharing and solidarity. Besides this, they will discover that to overcome situations of need and difficulties, quite often the only thing needed is a little ingenuity and imagination.
+ 3 years 9 788498 712803
13,50€
The step towards adulthood of the one to be called The king of the jungle is used in this album as an argument against clichés, conventionalisms and stereotypes. The story questions the lives ruled by what others expect from us, and warns of the great unhappiness that provokes the difficulty of being ourselves, something so simple and paradoxically so complicated.
Little John's belly button
When you can't find your way home
Ramón Aragüés & Francesca Chessa 36 pages - April 2011
Paloma S. Ibarzábal & Joanna Concejo 36 pages - March 2011
Little John was four years, four months and four days old. One day at bath time, a doubt about the small hole in his belly came to him. And the protagonist, as should happen to all of us, doesn’t like to leave any question unanswered.
ISBN 978-84-9871-279-7
GL | ES FR | PT + 3 years
9 788498 712797
ISBN 978-84-9871-277-3
12,90€
GL | ES | EU FR | PT + 4 years
9 788498 712773
13,50€
Children go through the ‘why’ stage when an inexhaustible curiosity for everything that surrounds or concerns them becomes an absolute necessity to find out on their own. This way, being how the day to day learning and natural process of growing – imperceptible to oneself – comes about.
Sometimes you get lost at night and you can’t find your home. In an unknown wood you aimlessly walk.
ISBN 978-84-9871-278-0
GL | ES | FR PT | IT + 5 years
9 788498 712780
12,90€
Speckled cockerel's wedding
Felix, the collector of fears
Juan A. Belmontes & Natalie Pudalov 40 pages - March 2011
Fina Casalderrey & Teresa Lima 40 pages - October 2010
Don’t get married to cockerel, girl of silver! Come with me! I’ll look after you, I’ll show you secret places, we’ll make the evenings longer… But, fox, Speckled Cockerel loves me, he adores me and only asks me to carry him on my head when I go for a walk.
Felix wasn’t like the other children: Felix was the most frightened boy in the world!
A love triangle of jealousy, sadness, deception… With these ingredients emotion is guaranteed. In this maze of intrigue, this album invites us to reflect on fact that love does not go with receiving or dominating, but with the happiness of giving, those that show this are those who really love us.
In this album, the well-known Galician writer invites us to laugh at ourselves. The Portuguese illustrator accepts the invitation and lends her soft chromatic palette of colours to the story; images that introduce us to Felix’s fascinating world. A story to favour the expression of feelings. ISBN 978-84-9871-191-2
GL | ES | EU FR | PT | IT + 4 years
9 788498 711912
13,50€
What a lot of drops in the city!
Charo Pita & Fátima Afonso 48 pages - October 2010 Antea and Filipa are two humble little old ladies who share everything, although their everything is almost nothing: water soup from Monday to Saturday and half a noodle each on Sundays. But they are happy being able to count on their greatest wealth: the affection they feel towards each other.
After a long sleep, they wake up and are curious about what lies below in the city. They jump out of the clouds, begin to fall: one, two, three… They are the soul of the city, characters that show us another side to the city. An opportunity to bring us closer to the numbers: counting, associating… GL | ES
ISBN 978-84-9871-192-9
FR | PT + 5 years 9 788498 711905
12,90€
GL | ES | EU FR | PT | IT
2ND PRIZE FOR THE
BEST EDITED CHILDREN BOOK 2009 MINISTRY OF CULTURE (SPAIN)
DISTINCTION FROM THE JUDGES OF THE PORTUGUESE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATOR’S PRIZE 2011.
Little old ladies
Eva Montanari 36 pages - October 2010
ISBN 978-84-9871-190-5
This story introduces and makes us live in first person a frightful common place: the terrors of the night. The perfect command of the poetic and fantastic language reroutes and quenches fear and uncertainty in this album that usually accompanies these sorts of experiences. The reader shares with the main character the disorientation and also the oneiric journey back home, thanks to the help of friendly voices that cheer him on.
+ 4 years 9 788498 711929
13,50€
This story shows we are able to do things, that seem impossible, for the people we love and that deserve to get to old age, but very old age, to enjoy the great pleasures in life together – a great banquet – or the small things – a tiny bean.
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ISBN 978-84-9871-188-2
GL | ES | EU FR | PT + 5 years
9 788498 711882
ISBN 978-84-9871-187-5
13,50€
GL | ES FR | PT + 4 years
9 788498 711875
ISBN 978-84-9871-185-1
12,90€
GL | ES | FR PT | IT + 5 years
9 788498 711851
13,50€
Ernest Good Morning
The soup’s hot
José Campanari & João Vaz de Carvalho 40 pages - September 2010
Pablo Albo & André Letria 36 pages - September 2010
That Sunday, Ernest was invited to tea at his girlfriend Enriqueta’s house. It was for six o’clock, not a minute earlier or a minute later. Ernest set out on a sunny afternoon, while Enriqueta, her sister, mother, father and grandmother got the tea ready. The wind began to blow, rain drops fell, it rained and blew gales… while Enriqueta’s family stared at the clock because Ernest was late.
Well blow, daughter, blow. On a day-to-day basis, the youngest have to face challenges that for them appear to be insuperable, although adults see them as trivial; in this case, the soup at an impossible temperature.
An amusing story in which the protagonist sticks to his grandfather’s saying - bad weather needs a good face -, he doesn’t give up, not even when things cannot get worse.
ISBN 978-84-9871-189-9
GL | ES FR | PT
Overcoming these challenges forms part of a natural process in learning and growth, where the imagination becomes the most efficient resource to which the child has access.
+ 3 years 9 788498 711899
12,90€
Mosquito
Petitusos
Margarita del Mazo & Roger Olmos 36 pages - June 2010
Mar Pavón & João Vaz de Carvalho 40 pages - June 2010
A mosquito offers to help an old man to discover the tastiest piece of meat, and free him from a terrible snake that wants to eat him. In compensation the old man provides the insect with iron dentures so that no victim can escape, but the smart insect will use them to satisfy its excessive voracity…
Mammy Pimpon wants to feed her hungry little pimpons, but for nothing in the world will she resort to those tasty…
In a humoristic key, this traditional Chinese tale, of an aetiological nature, reveals why the mosquito, instead of speaking, emits a buzzing sound as if it were a war cry and lets us know why snakes eat mice and swallows are man’s friends.
ISBN 978-84-9871-186-8
GL | ES | EU
A gallery of surrealist characters that captivate us from the very beginning: mammy Pimpon, little pimpons and petitusos. An amusing original story about the absurdity of certain prohibitions from a fantastical perspective that invites us to smile. A story full of humour from beginning to end.
FR | PT + 4 years 9 788498 711868
13,50€
The last crow
Croco
Pablo Albo & Miguel A. Díez 40 pages - May 2010
Roberto Aliaga & Minako Chiba 36 pages - May 2010
Every morning, Filbert and Sacramento’s cockerel went up the bell tower and sang: O sole mío…! That went on for many years, so many it seemed it would never end. However, the cockerel was getting older and one night he closed his eyes…
Codrile was hungry, but mammy crocodile had to watch the nest. There was an egg in the nest and inside the egg… a brother. Codrile went off ready to hunt alone, but he was still little and he wasn’t used to getting his own food.
Death is a difficult concept to understand. The Last Crow tackles this theme in an affectionate way, as a natural process of life and with all the stages that characterize it (mourning, acceptance, memories…) The story also stresses the transmission of knowledge as the key to maturity and to advance towards emotional growth.
A simple story musically narrated and recreated through the affectionate and colourist illustrations stressing that the birth of a brother is something beautiful that offers more advantages than inconveniences. For that, any fear, that it may create a conflict, is totally weakened when the young ones understand it isn’t necessary to compete for affection.
ISBN 978-84-9871-184-4
GL | ES | FR PT | IT + 3 years
9 788498 711844
12,90€
ISBN 978-84-9871-183-7
GL | ES | FR PT | IT + 4 years
9 788498 711837
ISBN 978-84-9871-181-3
12,90€
GL | ES | FR PT | IT + 3 years
9 788498 711813
12,90€
GL | ES | FR IT | PT
The trotting cooking pot
The war of the Numbers
Patacrúa & Kristina Andres 36 pages - April 2010
Juan Darién 48 pages - April 2010
A mean and ambitious king who spends hours counting his wealth; a man and a woman who have less than the spiders; a village of peasants who have been cheated by the monarch; and a cooking pot that goes from one place to another gathering and sharing out among the disadvantaged what, in justice, corresponds to them.
ONE was a very small number. Always alone and jealous of the others, that seemed so superior. One day, King Minus gave him the plans to build a terrible weapon: the MINUS sign.
Amusing traditional Danish story probably written with the idea of amusing and consoling those who only had fantasy at hand to entreat destiny. A homage to Daniel Castelao, a great defender of social justice.
GL | ES | EU FR | PT | IT + 5 years
9 788498 711820
13,50€
CJ 1st PICTURE BOOK AWARDS 2008
Simon Liar
The great journey
Roberto Aliaga & Simona Mulazzani 36 pages - March 2010
Anna Castagnoli & Gabriel Pacheco 40 pages - March 2010 The journey takes place in the mind, in the memory, it is the imaginary rout on which we set out, rocked by the lulling music we hear hidden under our beds. The protagonist of this album will sail seas, cross countries at war, rescue animals in danger… and return home a hero.
The little mouse, the main character in this story, perceives and expresses reality as a fantastic game for a specific aim: speaking of wolves, foxes and cats that are in his imagination. But the fantasy has an ephemeral character and does not materialize in its perception. For that, Simon, the same as the readers, will have to distinguish between reality and fantasy at the appropriate moment, just at the end of the story. ISBN 978-84-9871-180-6
Short emotional sentences within the reach of young readers so they identify with the mouse, his fears, games and fantasy.
GL | ES | EU FR | PT | IT + 5 years
9 788498 711806
13,50€
As a metaphor of life, the journey takes us to discover the world and take part in difficult circumstances, but the nature of the journey itself is the imagination. ISAAC DÍAZ PARDO ILLUSTRATED BOOK AWARD 2009
Who’s stolen the Moon?
And what can I do?
Mario Catelli & Madalena Matoso 36 pages - October 2009
José Campanari & Jesús Cisneros 40 pages - August 2009
Kip, the youngest of the pack, wants to howl like the adult wolves; one night with a full moon he runs off to the mountain and breathes in so strongly, the moon falls from the sky… In this amusing story about learning and discovering life, it underlines that wisdom is acquired over the years and therefore each stage should be fully taken advantage of.
Mr Eks reads the news in the newspaper and becomes full of worries. He asks himself all the time: And what can I do? One day he finds an answer; another day, another and another…
A simple story for us to intuitively understand where the essence of things is to be found.
GL | ES FR | PT
+ 4 years 12,90€
ISBN 978-84-9871-182-0
Making symbolic and metaphorical use of the mathematical operation of subtraction, this album brings us closer to the injustice of wars originating in the erroneous interpretation of all that which is different, supposes a threat.
VISUAL PRIZE DIPLOMA FOR BOOK DESIGN 2008
+ 5 years 13,50€
This album underlines the importance of knowing how to see beyond ourselves and of trying a little harder in helping people who need it. There are many things that, without realizing, we can do. It is enough just to open our eyes and learn to look.
10
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 3 years 13,50€
GL | ES FR | PT + 4 years
The seven kids
The three bears
Tareixa Alonso & Teresa Lima 40 pages - August 2009
Marisa Núñez & Minako Chiba 36 pages - June 2009
There were once seven little goats that lived happily in a cabin in the woods with their mother; but there was a fierce wolf lurking nearby…
Three bears live in a cabin in the woods. One day the bears went for a walk before breakfast; then Goldilocks found the house empty and went in…
A widely spread and traditional story from Grimm’s classic version. A living reference, within infant literature, that feeds the imagination of younger readers and contributes quality to the panorama of children’s literature.
From the traditional tale, the narrator adds a serious of comments about habits, virtues and good manners that influence values such as responsibility, autonomy and the good use of freedom.
DISTINCTION FROM THE JUDGES OF THE PORTUGUESE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATOR’S PRIZE 2010
FR | PT + 3 years 13,50€
+ 3 years 12,90€
Halfwit Harry
What a downpour!
Patacrúa & Evelyn Daviddi 40 pages - June 2009
Raquel Saiz & Maja Celija 36 pages - May 2009
Halfwit Harry is set on finding a job he likes and tries different trades: on Monday he looks for work at the tailors, on Tuesday at the farmhand’s house, on Wednesday at the tavern… After some amusing setbacks and failing spectacularly at work, his perseverance and optimism will at last be compensated.
Manolo got up, just like every other day; he washed his face, got dressed… and when he went out… A princess fell on his head! It’s that there are days when the laws of nature don’t work: there are days when love falls from the sky!
This version of the traditional European tale incorporates an agile original rhythm set out by the seven days of the week indicating the passing of time and the end of a cycle which completes the protagonist’s independence.
13,50€
GL | ES
GL | ES | FR IT | PT
GL | ES FR | PT
Fantasy, irony and absolute normality, revise, with plenty of humour, the topic of the princess from the traditional tales, who meets a prince and falls in love for the rest of her life.
+ 5 years 12,90€
Rosemary Dromedary
Searching the North
Rachel Chaundler & Bernardo Carvalho 40 pages - May 2009
Paula Carbonell & Cecilia Afonso Esteves 40 pages - April 2009
The little dromedary is unable to put up with his brothers’ abusive behaviour and react when faced with situations that course him distress. That is why he cries none stop and, as a result, has an insignificant hump. However, when things get complicated he acts intelligently and shows who is the strongest.
The glow-worm plays at being a shooting star, the slug asks for a wish… and then the journey begins to the land of the peach trees, following the polar star, accompanied by the distinct moon phases.
In the first years of childhood, the complexity of emotions can give the impression of the lack of words to describe them and crying comes to the fore when faced with situations of fear, distress, frustration, confusion, need…
GL | ES FR | PT + 5 years 13,50€
The journey and not final destiny is what will make the protagonists grow and mature and discover new worlds on the inside and outside of themselves. A tale to be seen through a child’s eyes, on the grass, among the dew drops.
The bear and the crow
Petra
Monika Klose & André da Loba 48 pages - March 09
Helga Bansch 40 pages - March 09
The bear wanted to fly and the crow wanted to be as strong as a bear. How to do it? The answer appeared to be simple: just to change wings for arms and… fly!... or not?
Fat is beautiful!, her mother used to say, but Petra didn’t like what she saw in the mirror. She wanted to be tall, thin and elegant, and would be able to move heaven and earth to be physically different. The elephant still has hope of finding a solution to what she considers a problem, sets her out on a trip of amusing adventures that will bring about a very special meeting.
An amusing story about dreams, loyalties and breached agreements, with a clear message: we all have things of value, it is only necessary to look deep down and value our capabilities without giving up our dreams.
FR | PT
GL | ES | FR IT | PT
+ 4 years
+ 4 years
GL | ES
13,50€
VISUAL PRIZE FOR BOOK DESIGN 2008
13,50€
Quickeye
A woodland secret
Darabuc & Maurizio A. C. Quarello 36 pages - February 09
Javier Sobrino & Elena Odriozola 40 pages - February 09
A mouse, full of curiosity, and wanting to be happy, sets off to see the world and meets up with two companions, a dog and an elephant. After travelling through several magic lands and crossing the starry ocean, they come across the Cyclops Quickeye and, in their naïveté… Elephant and dog end up in the monster’s belly, but, luckily the curious little mouse manages to save his friends. GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 4 years 19,90€
GL | ES | FR IT | PT | BR + 3 years 13,50€
They all learn at the end of the story: some to be more wary, others not to use violence. However, it does not offer a moral as is customary but motivates reflection arouses curiosity and questions in young readers.
An optimistic vision in the sense of learning that authenticity is the road to satisfaction, and that others accept us as we are.
Since she saw him, Squirrel couldn’t get him off her mind. When she thought of him she couldn’t see for the clouds, her voice would go, her stomach became as hard as a rock, and it’s that… Squirrel was in love! Her secret reached all the corners of the woods. Many were of the opinion that it was madness, but when autumn came… GL | ES | EU FR | PT + 5 years
A charming and surprising love story in which differences do not suppose any difficulty in relationships.
13,50€
Little pink bear’s dream
The three little pigs
Roberto Aliaga & Helga Bansch 40 pages - November 08
Raquel Méndez & Helga Bansch 36 pages - November 08
The little bear cried and cried because he’d lost his dream. Then the giraffe stretched his long neck and searched the sky; the old horse went over land and the frog went to the bottom of the river… But none of the things they brought back stopped the little bear from crying… What does a little pink bear dream about?
The youngest little pig didn’t feel like working and, to keep himself warm, he made a house of straw. The middle little pig worked a little harder and made a house of wood but the eldest worked very hard to build a house of bricks. When the wolf came and blew and blew…
A story in which we learn that solidarity requires being in the other person’s shoes and understanding. More than good intentions are necessary to help someone.
GL | ES | FR | IT PT | EU | PL + 3 years 12,90€
True to the original version and with a great dynamic visual dialogue based on simple and amusing images combined in a timeless album to understand things change, people evolve and growing (combined with effort, intelligence and rational planning) have many advantages.
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The incredible story of the birdgirl and the terrible boy
Three wishes Eva Mejuto & Gabriel Pacheco 36 pages - October 2008
Anna Castagnoli & Susanne Janssen 48 pages - October 2008
Dreaming on moon-lit nights, makes the future look bright. You may ask for three wishes, was on the mysterious piece of paper that fell down the chimney, just when the little old couple were toasting a piece of bread. Gold teeth, elegant clothes, a diamond palace… What a difficult choice!
GL | ES | FR IT | PT | NL + 4 years
This story, adapted from the traditional Portuguese oral tradition, speaks about the power of dreams, of luck that capriciously comes and goes before our eyes and that while we have affect and dreams to fulfil, we shall be happy.
12,90€
That boy spent hours up a tree. His mother shouted at him from the window; you’re a terrible boy! And so on, every day of the year, so many times and so often that he forgot his own name. But on a strange day in May, the terrible boy found, at the top of the tree, a small bird’s egg… GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 5 years 13,50€
The tortoise who wanted to sleep
A cat in the tree Pablo Albo & Géraldine Alibeu 40 pages - September 2008
Roberto Aliaga & Alessandra Cimatoribus 36 pages - September 2008
GL | ES | FR | IT PT | EU | PL + 3 years 12,90€
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 4 years 12,90€
The tortoise is very sleepy and is going to sleep all winter. When he’s already in bed, after going through the ritual for him to sleep (brushing his teeth, putting on his night gown, straightening the sheets…), someone knocks at the door. They’re his friends with presents to keep him company through the long sleep that awaits him. The tortoise thanks them for their kind attention, but he feels sleepier and sleepier and he only wants to be left alone. A story to help understand bed-time as something pleasant and to complete the ritual by telling a story before being overcome by sleep.
A book for all ages with material to make us reflect on the importance of affection and help us to see details that may go unseen, in spite of them forming part of an individual’s personality.
A cat, chased by a dog, runs to the top of a very tall tree and after can’t get down. Those that pass by go up the tree with the idea of helping; but things start to get more and more complicated and the solidarity of the firemen, neighbours and family turns into a problem for the tree, that can’t support so much weight… GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 4 years
A story with a lot of humour employing the essential resources in the oral tradition. It offers possibilities to be dramatized and in literary experimentation.
13,50€
The king’s behind
Bella
Raquel Saiz & Evelyn Daviddi 36 pages - June 2008
Rachel Chaundler & Bernardo Carvalho 36 pages - June 2008
Like every morning the king was about to have breakfast in the royal dining room; and when he sat on his throne… a pin stuck in his behind! Ow! he complained begging for help. But no one dared to touch his behind. This album demythologizes the customs and habits at the palace. Agile, simple and amusing text, very appropriate for young children.
The tropical rainforest is full of dangers, but Bella the butterfly is very naughty and isn’t afraid of anything. One day she gets up close to the elephants that are splashing around in the river and she finds herself in a situation she cannot control. Bella asks for help, but nobody can help her. Finally everything is resolved thanks to the collaboration of an unexpected character…
With a great sense of humour and ingenuity this story shows the silliest side of people high social standing that, because of heir rank, appear unable to find a solution to a very simple problem.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 3 years 12,90€
A simple and tender argument in which themes such as the importance of being cautious, the value of friendship, or solidarity are treated, which on occasions could enter into conflict. Here we have the difficulty of any learning process.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 4 years 13,50€
Count with me
Oscar the Ostrich
Pep Bruno & Mariona Cabassa 40 pages - April 2008
Rachel Chaundler & Bernardo Carvalho 36 pages - April 2008
There are many ways to count. We can count the clouds while lying in the grass; sitting next to a friend we can count the ants that crawl out of the anthill, we can count the poppies while walking through a field… or we can tell a story as we count the characters that appear… But, when we reach twelve, the moon comes out, we all have to go to bed, and the count-down begins!
Oscar the Ostrich has a magnificent tail. So as not to squash it at night he sleeps with his head in the ground and his tail in the air. One morning when he wakes up, he stretches his neck and feels that his head doesn’t move, Oscar stamps his feet, bends his knees, wiggles his tail and pulls, and pulls and pulls… but his head is trapped and it doesn’t move. If he wants to be free he has no other alternative but to ask for help.
A story to be read out loud built upon the characters that enter and exit. A story with many possibilities and for multiple readings.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 3 years 12,90€
The day mother had a face like a tea-pot
Titiritess Xerardo Quintiá & Maurizio A. C. Quarello 48 pages - March 2008
Raquel Saiz & João Vaz de Carvalho 36 pages - March 2008 Mark’s mother was so angry smoke began to come out of her mouth as if she were a dragon. Just then, her nose changed into a spout; and her left ear became a handle. A little later Mark picked up a teapot from the floor which looked very much like his mother.
GL | ES FR | PT + 5 years 12,90€
A story to transmit the pleasure of reading to children and, above all, for those that think the imagination is the most powerful tool we have to understand reality. VISUAL PRIZE DIPLOMA FOR BOOK DESIGN 2007
GL | ES FR | PT + 5 years 13,50€
Follow me!
Love without prejudice is celebrated in this story at the same time that, with the necessary sensitivity, the theme is exposed to a young reader contributing towards an affective education.
Patacrúa & Javier Solchaga 36 pages - February 2008
José Campanari & Roger Olmos 48 pages - February 2008
And what’s this? This is the cat that caught the magpie that stole Princess Allbring’s ring… And what’s this?
A grey elephant with pink beauty spots, who lives in a jungle, falls in love with a black ant with a wasp’s waist. The love is returned, but for them to be together they will have to go down a long road.
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Titiritess lives in the kingdom of Daybeforeyesterday. Her mother, Mandolin, dreams of her daughter well married and tries to educate her like a refined courtesan. But her daughter doesn’t share the queen’s aspirations and rejects the conventional life they want to impose on her. Faced with the imminent arrival of a governess, she decides to run from the palace to live fantastic and amusing adventures: to know another princess with sweet lips…
Princess Allbring
(A LOVE STORY THAT ISN’T STRANGE AT ALL)
A great sense of humour to recreate a charming character, able to overcome any obstacle, as big as it may be, in the quest for true love. There’s nothing strange about that!
Reminiscent of an old Russian story by Alexei Tolstoy confirming that power resides in association and team work.
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A classical accumulative story but with an ending and the way it is presented that recovers the typical elements that appear in the European tradition: cat, dog, stick, fire, water… With this type of story children learn to establish connections and from there to generalize and even to predict.
WHITE RAVEN 2007 SPECIAL MENTION
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The glutton
Baby Whiskers
Pablo Albo & Maurizio A. C. Quarello 48 pages - November 2007
Patacrúa & Alessandra Cimatoribus 36 pages - November 2007
Grandmother decides to get a surprise ready in the cellar for her three granddaughters: bread and honey (she’d forgotten that was Glutton’s favourite food). One at a time the granddaughters went down the dark, cold and mysterious stairs; pushed the door and…
A very old woman and a very old man wanted to have baby but they didn’t know how to go about it. After several attempts, experimenting with diverse formula and even asking the king and queen and the stork to collaborate, the little old woman had an idea…
The Glutton is a traditional and one of most popular “child eaters” in Spain and for that has different characteristics depending on the area. In this version he is as in the traditional stories although the story does have more humour and the outcome is more amusing and happier.
With a sharp sense of humour, this free version of a traditional Mongol tale warps a plot full of delicate details stemming from one of the greatest mysteries in life: Where do children come from?, developing the age and worry theme at the same time.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 5 years 12,90€
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The thing that hurts most in the world
Run, pumpkin, run Eva Mejuto & André Letria 36 pages - October 2007
Paco Liván & Roger Olmos 36 pages - October 2007
On the way to her granddaughter’s wedding, a little old lady comes across a wolf, a bear and a lion that want to eat her up. She convinces the animals to wait until she returns from the wedding reception and, after the celebrations, the granddaughter and the little old lady come up with a very original plan to outwit the three wild beasts.
The hare and the hyena chat away while fishing. A lie is the thing that hurts most in the world, the hare said; and the hyena started to laugh. To demonstrate it, the hare leaves at the palace gates a very special cake that provokes the king’s rage. GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 5 years
A very amusing story from the oral tradition of the Ivory Coast. WHITE RAVEN 2006 SPECIAL MENTION
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CATALONIAN BOOKSELLERS PRIZE 2006 12,90€
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 5 years 13,50€
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With an agile rhythm - almost a tongue twister -, present in the Portuguese versions that are still circulating today, this story offers many expressive narrative possibilities and theatrical presentation.
12,50€
What a snout!
The silly nanny goat
Paco Liván & Iván Prieto 48 pages - September 2007
Pep Bruno & Roger Olmos 36 pages - September 2007
Three sisters inherit a bowl and a spoon. When they stir the bowl up with the spoon three magical objects appear. The youngest wants to use hers to get to know the famous prince of Castledom. Not only handsome but mean, miserly and vain, tricking and cheating he manages to humiliate the young girl and get his hands on their legacy. But faced with adversity, the sisters use their ingenuity to teach the prince a lesson.
After looking all over the village, Michael found his goat on a roof top. Does she think she’s a weather vain? Or a chimney? Or perhaps a cat?, Michael asks himself.
This story, with an efficient and synthetic rhythm, comes from the combination of a variant of other German versions.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 4 years 12,90€
A great story to tell just before bed-time. A story with the right amount of text supported by dynamic illustrations and caricatures that give off comical details and information to stimulate the imagination.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 3 years 13,50€
Butterfly trip
The sultan and the mice
Paula Carbonell & Chené 48 pages - August 2007
Joan de Boer & Txell Darné 36 pages - August 2007
Caterpillar came up with the idea of crossing the five metres that separated the orange tree from the lemon tree. A flea, ant, ladybird, earwig and a grasshopper decide to go with caterpillar. But when caterpillar is on his own at the end a terrible hornet appears…
The sultan liked cheese a lot. He had rooms full of cheeses from all over the world; but the palace filled up with mice that ate the sultan’s cheese, and his councillors had to come up with a solution: to get rid of the mice, they brought in cats; to get rid of the cats, they brought in dogs; to get rid of the dogs, they brought in lions; to get rid of the lions, they brought in elephants; to get rid of the elephants, they brought in mice… a never ending circle.
The use of accumulative structures and repetition favour and help to memorize the text. Using such an efficient formula for first readers a caring story of collaboration and thanks develops. The pleasant and expressive illustrations get away from the typical insect cliché which is common in the collective imagination.
GL | ES | FR IT | PT + 4 years 12,90€
Chocolate
GL | ES | PT | FR | IT BR | PL | NL + 3 years 12,50€
This story, of Arabian origin, has a series of odd happenings that are dealt with by a great sense of humour.
The tooth gnashing witch
Marisa Núñez & Helga Bansch 36 pages - May 2007
Tina Meroto & Maurizio A. C. Quarello 48 pages - May 2007
Chocolate has her daily bath in the lagoon. One day she discovers that in the city there are public baths and decides to leave the jungle and try them out. So as not to appear so wild, she buys a track suit and some trainers with lights. She’s ready to face life in the city.
Three brothers who do not heed their mothers warning, enter the dark and mysterious woods where anything can happen. The youngest, afraid and conscious of the danger, tries to warn his two brothers, but when he has to take a decision he ends up going with them. As they don’t know the way back, they decide to enter the witch’s house that smells of food…
A story about illusions, desires, friendship, the importance of experiencing and the value of that which we have closest. INTERNATIONAL INFANT LITERATURE PRIZE 2007 ESPACES ENFANTS FOUNDATION
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A scary story, from the Turkish-Russian tradition, that comes to a positive end transmitting the idea that it is possible to overcome obstacles.
+ 4 years 13,50€
Géraldine Alibeu
Qontexts collection Misery, poverty, war, injustice, marginalization: words and images that bring us close to other realities‌ From a caring perspective, hoping to contribute to the education of values and invite collaboration to improve the conditions of the disadvantaged infant population.
hardback 24x30 cm
18 Smoke Antón Fortes & Joanna Concejo 40 pages - October 2009 In one of the most infernal realities created by man in the 20th century – the Nazi concentration camps – love and solidarity are able to light a light of hope in the future. If all violence turns out to be inadmissible, that which annihilates innocence, even more. The young protagonist manages to remain intact thanks to the memories that help him to flee from the isolation and eradication, and give way – in the inhospitable camp (Lager) – to love and friendship.
Part of the royalties of this album go to NGO CREART www.creart.org.es WHITE RAVEN 2009 SPECIAL MENTION
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Joanna Concejo
20,50€
OQart collection We get close to the artist, to the expressive form, to the particular interpretation of reality‌ We push the door of this magical and waived space of the world of art, with suggestive, enigmatic proposals open to new interpretations: words and images, to taste at any age using all five senses.
hardback 25x35 cm
20 Animal artist’s notebook Antón Fortes & Maurizio A. C. Quarello 48 pages - April 2009 The young ladies of Avignon reconverted into mandrills; the sex-symbol Mae West (Dali), into a lion; the ballet dancers by Degas, into flamingos subjected to severe rehearsals in order to become famous… A stroll past the paintings from the last century, revisited with humour and irony, from a singular perspective: the animal kingdom.
18,50€
2ND PRIZE FOR THE BEST EDITED CHILDREN BOOK 2008 MINISTRY OF CULTURE (SPAIN)
Great book of animal portraits Svjetlan Junakovic 48 pages - October 2007 Very far from the conventional art history book, the verisimilitude of the portraits and the text about the image, which the Croatian illustrator presents in this book, play on the historic base, respected up to the minimum detail, but in which the animals are converted into the authentic protagonists. Sharing the taste for painting with young children opens windows on art and takes away the barriers… these are some of the aims of this book.
BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD 2008 SPECIAL MENTION GL | ES | FR IT | PT | BR
ANDERSEN PRIZE 2008 - IL MONDO DELL’INFANZIA 1ST PRIZE FOR THE BEST EDITED CHILDREN BOOK 2007 MINISTRY OF CULTURE (SPAIN)
18,50€
DIPLOMA AWARD FOR VISUAL BOOK DESIGN 2007
Maurizio A. C. Quarello
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This album teaches us to look, awakening curiosity for some brilliant works, avant-garde and individuality relevant to art. The unusual protagonists, inspired by emblematic works from the 20th century, are able to provoke sensations and new meanings.
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