Antonio "The beginning"

THE BEGINNING.

Paula Carballeira.

Sonja Danowski.

Project by Antonio Otero Rodríguez.

Paula Carballeira Cabana.

Paula Carballeira (Maniños, A Coruña, 1972)

She is a philologist, storyteller, dramatist, narrator, poet and actress.

This ​Writer has become referent of Children's and Young People's Literature Galician and her ​works have been translated into various languages. The CEIP Os Casais school library, takes her ​name: Paula Carballeira Library.

Photo by Pili Rodríguez Leira.

Some of her works are : Mateo ​(Kalandraka, 1999).

O lobishome de Candeán​ (Galaxia, 2009).

Un porco e unha vaca xa fan zoolóxico​ (Xerais, 1999).

Sonja Danowski. ​Sonia Danowski (Regensburg- Germany).

Sonja Danowski lives in Berlin where she works as an artist, author and illustrator,with a particular focus on the creation of picture books for children and adults.

Some of his illustrations are: The Beginning written by Paula Carballeira illustrated by Sonja Danowski.

Nebelnudeln ​written and illustrated by Sonja Danowski.

Smon Smon​ written and illustrated by Sonja Danowski.

SETTING. The story tells us about an unknown place after a war. It could be Germany after World War II .

Characters The characters in the story are: a father, a mother, an old man, but the most important characters are the boys and girls with their smiles, tenderness, and joy.

PLOT. The story is about a country after a war where families even if they have no electricity, no houses, no clothes, their enthusiasm and desire to live​, are bigger than the sadness of war and destruction.

Conclusion For me, the message that the story transmits ​is ​that life continues, and that you can never miss​,​ hope and smile.

The author uses a very simple language, because the important thing is the images of the story, they are so real that it seems that we are living there. It's a beautiful story, although the war is not.

Cover analysis.

In the cover page ​i ​observe a child´s leg ​, a football ball and a path of “plants” that leads to the back cover and at the end of the path there are some pigeons.

I think the book is about a war because it looks very poor​, sad ​and I think that the "way" to the pigeons means that we have to follow a path towards peace and the ball​, I think​, is the hope of the child ​that although there is a war they continue to play with joy.

Personal opinion after reading the story.

After reading the story , I would buy it, because it is a very nice, tender story, and I would like it to be read by my brother Jaime.

This project was very important to me. I like to work on projects, I think we learn a lot, it's more fun than a theory class, The most difficult part​, for me, was the analysis of the cover​,​ by the symbols (it took me many

hours to write it), but after reading the story , I understood​ ​it well.

Live.

What I like the most is the message that the story tells us: ​

Bibliography

Carballeira, Paula​,​ Danowski, Sonja. ​The Beginning.​ Pontevedra Kalandraka Editora​, (2012)​.

VV.AA. ​Diccionario Oxford Pocket español - inglés-inglés - español.​ 4TH ED. Oxford University Press.

Websites.

VV.AA . L​eer conta moito. Guía de lectura narrativa. ​Xunta de Galicia. (​https://www.cultura.gal/sites/default/files/guia_de_lectura_narrativa_fi nal.pdf​); [11/06/2018]

Carballeira, Paula. ​Cuentacuarenta​. (h​ttps://cuentacuarenta.com/paula-carballeira​) ; [11/06/2018]

Carballeira, Paula. ​gl.wikipedia.org​; (​https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Carballeira​) ; [11/06/2018]

http://www.sonjadanowski.com/contact.html.

Photos.

Rodríguez Leira, Pili . ​Paula Carballeira. ​ Maniños ; 2011.

Carle, Eric. ​Museum of picture book. Sonja Danowski. ​Amherst; 2016.

Otero Rodríguez, Antonio. ​Photos of the book .​Maniños; 2018.