PROJECT VANESSA , ALEXANDRA and GABRIEL
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TABLEOFCONTENTS 1- I ntroducti on. (Page 1) a) What the project is about. b) Cover page and back cover page analysis.
2- Th e i l l ustrated al bum to be anal yzed. (Page 2-3) a) Short biography of both the author and the illustrator.
3-Summary. (Page 4) 4- Ch aracters. (Page 5) 3- Concl usi on. (Page 6-7) a) The theme. b) After reading the album. c) After finishing the project.
4- Bi bl i ograph y. (Page 7)
COVERPAGEANDBACKCOVERPAGE
The cover page is red, we can see some characters that, at first glance, look like puppets, so it was, it has two puppet girls, one of them has red hair with two pigtails and blue eyes. He is wearing a red jacket the other girl, we can see that she is wearing short and loose hair, with a white and green jacket, she seems to be thinking. On the back cover page there is an ass and a monster.
BIOGRAPHYOFTHEAUTHOR Xerardo Quintiá Pérez, was born in Friol, on 28th March 1970, he is a Galician writer. In 1984 he moved to Lugo to do his studies of bachelor and he is living now in that city. He posted his jobs in the cultural section "Round Table" and collaborated in magazines. He published three narrative books, such as ?Un rebaño de ovellas brancas?, poetry such as ?Negra sombra?, children?s literature as "A verdadeira historia do burro Feldespato? and the book we're going to talk about today, ?Titiritess? (2007), translated into Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.
BIOGRAPHYOFTHEILLUSTRATOR Maurizio Quarello was born in 1974 in Turin. He studied graphic design, architecture and illustration in his native town and, on completing his studies he specialized and began working as illustrator in 2004. His first picture book was "Babau cerca casa?. His books have received numerous awards in Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and in Germany. He lives in Treia, near Macerata (Italy).
SUMMARY Titiritess lived in the kingdom of Daybeforeyesterday in the palace with her mother and her father. She is a girl who dreams of exploring the world with a blue horse, her mother tells her not to think of silly things and she announces Titiritess some people came to give her class manners. Titiritess runs away from the kingdom and she founds a donkey, she gives it the name of Bufaldine and it will accompany her in that adventure, they are close to the kingdom of Dayaftertomorrow, there, they find the king Godfrey, who lost his daughter because of a monster?s fault. Titiritess and Bufaldine talk with the monster to break free Gwendolyn in exchange of one jumper, he accepts. When Titiritess meets Gwendolyn, they fall in love and live their dreams together. Finally, they tell the truth to their parents and at first they don't accept this, but later they accept their decision, Titiritess and Gwendolyn go to live adventures together with the donkey, Bufaldine.
CHARACTERS Ti ti ri tess and M andol i ne: We believe, they are very strong telling the truth because in those years there was more homophobia than now
Th e ass: Is big, blue and white and it has brown eyes.
Ti ti ri tess?f ath er, K i ng Tartuf o: Is short and fat, he was got white hair and green eyes. Ti ti ri tess?moth er, Queen M andol i n: Is tall, has got white hair too and brown eyes.
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Th e monster: Is big, it has got a big mouth, big brown eyes, and big ears.
THETHEME We have learned that you have to fall in love with whom you want without prejudice and we should not criticise anyone for their likes either in their sexual orientation or in any other aspect of their lives.
AFTERREADINGTHEALBUM V A NESSA : I also changed my mind, because at the beginning I thought that the protagonists were a boy and a girl who fell in love but the father did not let them be together. Before reading it, I wouldn?t buy it for the cover, but now, after reading it, only for the message it gives, I would buy it.
A LEX A NDRA : After reading the book and doing the work, I changed my mind, because I thought that the story was about two theater puppets. I wouldn?t buy it because it doesn?t call me attention this type of books, but the story is beautiful.
GA BRI EL: I changed my mind with respect to the book because before reading it, for the cover page I didn't like it but after reading Titiritess I changed my mind. I wouldn?t buy it because it isn?t the type of books I like.
Opinionproject Our opinion about the project is that it was a funny way to practice the language and it helped us to understand it better.
Bibliography Xerardo Quintiรก and Quantello, Maurizio, Titiritess; OQO (2018) http://oqo.es/en/product/titiritess/ [Accessed 5/06/2018]
Quarello, Maurizio, biography (2018) http://www.quarello.com/bio.html [Accessed 05/06/2018]
All of the other photos of this project are from Google Images (Acessed: 06/07/2018)