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Where do the Animals Live? (Board Books)
Grassland/Woods/Sea/Jungle
Albert Asensio
Boad Books
18 x 18cm, 14 pages
From 2 years old
Rights available: worldwide
Awards: Premi Junceda in 2012 (Barcelona)
In the woods, there are deer, foxes, wild boars, squirrels, tigers… Tigers? No! Tigers don’t live in the woods! Where do they live?
Do you know which animals live in each place?
In this series you will discover all the animals in their natural habitats with enchanting illustrations by Albert Asensio.
Albert Asensio
An independent illustrator, he illustrates books for children and young readers, such as Kim (Juventud), Conspiracy, the Witch (Bambú), The Little Mouse Who Swept the Stairs (Cruïlla), and textbooks published in England (Killer Bees, Oxford University Press) and Portugal. He has also run courses in Graphic Expression at School Art and Design of Tarragona.
A Stroll with Mr Gaudí
Pau Estrada
Picture Boook (hardcover)
22 x 29cm, 48 pages
From 6 years old
Rights sold to Korea
Mr Gaudí lives in a most peculiar place, the Güell Park, which he has designed in Barcelona for the Count of Güell. Every day when he goes to work he checks the progress on the works he's been commissioned to do: the Pedrera, the Sagrada Familia, the Batlló House... You'd never guess by his unkempt appearance but Antoni Gaudí is one of the most reknown architects of his day, even though oftentimes people think that his buildings are quite bizarre...
A picture book full of wonderful illustrations to learn about the city of Barcelona and about one of the most original architects of the 20th century.
Pau Estrada
Pau Estrada is an illustrator, English teacher and documentary film maker. He has illustrated many children's book both in Spain and the USA. For more information about his works, visit www.pauestrada.com
Story of a Tree
Miguel Angel Cuesta
Picture Boook (hardcover)
21,5 x 32,5 cm, 48 pages
From 4 years old
Rights available: worldwide
A delicate work of art, which incorporates games of perspective and contrasting points of view of the same image, this book allows the main character, a tree that survives the destruction of a wood, to really shine through. Using the same innocent tone as the illustrations, some short texts tell the story of this strong little tree which, even after being chopped down, is reborn with the simple actions of a child.
Miguel Ángel Cuesta
HIs earliest memories always include pencils, markers and crayons. His drawing are always influenced by naive art. To date, he has published two picture books: Refrescos frescos de burbujas brujas, published by CEDMA, and Historia de un árbol. He still dreams, thinks, writes and illustrates children's book with close help from his little son.
Yaci and her Doll
A Brazilian folk tale
Conchita Zendrera
Gloria Carasusan
Hardcover
27 x 20,5cm, 24 pages
From 5 years old
Yaci lives in a village in Brazil. She has made a beautiful doll using a corncob, but has forgotten to help her mum. When Mum threatens to take the doll, Yaci is worried and buries it. When spring comes, Yaci finds a surprise… A beautiful tale about the importance of toys and the fear of losing them.
Conchita Zendrera
Conchita Zendrera has directed the children’s department of this publishing house for forty years, offering Spain great books like Enid Blyton’s serials or promoting Tintin and picture books like the little gem we are presenting here.
My Grandpa and I
Núria Parera
Almudena Suárez
Hardcover
26 x 21cm, 40 pages
From 5 years old
With Grandpa Simon we play our “hide kisses” game every day.
Even if he has to go to hospital. Even if he is not here.
Grandfather Simon and I keep playing...
A tender story about how, with the magic of a relationship between and old man and his granddaughter, it is possible to offer a less tragic view of degenerative diseases.
Coal Words
Irene Vasco
Juan Carlos Palomino
Hardcover
26,5 x 26,5cm, 32 pages
From 6 years old
In the village of Palenque, the only one who can read is Mr. Velandia, because some years ago, there were no schools in the villages to study. Gina’s sister really wants to learn to read andMr. Velandia promises to teach her if she helps him with the store...
A heartwarming tale about literacy and education in a remote Colombian village.
Irene Vasco
Irene is a reknowed Colombian author ofalmost thirty titles (such as Paso a paso and Mambrú perdió la guerra). She also travels long distances to visit communities where normally no one reaches, with just one intention: to bring the stories that she shares with her family to other children, and to break the silence with which conflicts are usually hidden from the young, revealing them through her writings.
The Wall
Nathalie Novi
Javier Sobrino
Hardcover
22,5 x 32,5cm, 32 pages
From 7 years old
A story about how stupid borders are in a natural world
For some time now, small-eared elephants and big-eared elephants have looked at each other in a strange and disturbing way. During the dry season, is not easy to find food in the valley of Okavango. The animals fight for something to eat: giraffes fight with zebras to eat the grass and the same thing happens between rhinos and hippos. But
elephants fighting is the worst...
Nathalie Novi
This French author has illustrated more than fifty children’s books (for publishing houses like Didier or Rue du Monde) with increasing success.
Javier Sobrino
He is a national benchmark in child and youth literature and in the area of education. Every time he makes the dream of publishing a new book come true, he feels
really lucky.
Gift books illustrated by Ángel Domínguez
Angel Dominguez (Biscay, 1953) completed his studies in 1973. He is self-taught and has established himself as an independent illustrator. He currently lives in Laredo, Cantabria, and he devotes his time to illustrating books for both adults and children. Editorial Juventud has published his work in Classic Animal Tales (1995) and Just Like That (1999), which won the Generalitat of Catalonia’s prize for the best illustrated children’s book; Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece (2000) and its sequel, Heracles, Theseus and Oedipus (2002), Treasure Hunters: Classical Tales of Pirates (2004) and One Thousand and One Nights (2006). He has also illustrated The Sultan’s Turban (2008), a picture book from this publishing house, and noted works include The King’s Gift (2000) for Queen Rania of Jordan, and many exhibitions in London, The United States and Japan
The Jungle Book
Text by Rudyard Kipling
Illustrations by Angel Dominguez
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 266 pages
For ages 9 and over.
Rights sold to Rusia
After losing his parents, Mowgli is taken in and raised by a pack of wolves. With the help of Baloo the bear and a panther called Bagheera, he will learn how to live in the jungle and face his fearsome enemy, the tiger Shere Khan. Rudyard Kipling recreates a magical and poetic world in these eight short stories that make up The Adventures of Mowgli.
This edition illustrated by Angel Dominguez has been awarded by the CCEI Illustration Award in 2010 (SPAIN):
Treasures Hunters, Classical Stories of Pirates
Selected and adapted by Seve Calleja
Illustrations by Angel Dominguez
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 248 pages
For ages 9 and over.
Rights solt to Rusia
One selection of classical tales of the universal litterature for young readers, with illlustrations of Ángel Domínguez: tales of Melville, Walter Scott, Conan Doyle or Sabatini... A very acurate edition for young and adults readers.
Just like that
Text by Rudyard Kipling
Illustrations by Angel Dominguez
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 228 pages
For ages 9 and over.
Rights sold to Rusia
This book has received the Generalitat of Catalonia’s Prize for the best illustrated children’s book (1999)
One Thousand and One Nights
Illustrations by Angel Dominguez
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 192 pages
For ages 9 and over.
Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece
Text by Gustav Schwab, adapted by José Manuel de Prada Samper
Illustrations by Angel Dominguez
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 240 pages
For ages 11 and over.
An illustrated adaption of the famous book by Gustav Schwab The Most Beautiful Legends of Classical Antiquity. The German poet Gustav Schwab collected between 1838 and 1848 the most beautiful legends of the ancient Greek to write an admirable classical myth collection for young readers.
Heracles, Theseus and Oedipus
Text by Gustav Schwab, adapted by José Manuel de Prada Samper
Illustrations by Angel Dominguez
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 192 pages
For ages 11 and over.
An illustrated adaption of the famous book by Gustav Schwab The Most Beautiful Legends of Classical Antiquity. The German poet Gustav Schwab collected between 1838 and 1848 the most beautiful legends of the ancient Greek to write an admirable classical myth collection for young readers.
In this second book all myths are related to the three heros Heracles, Theseus and Oedipus.
Universal Tales
Monster's Tales
Selected and adapted by Seve Calleja
Illustrated by Fabian Negrín
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 204 pages
For ages 10 and over.
Classical tales about monster or monstrous characters adapted to young readers as The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, A voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson, or The Mask of the Red Death by Edgard Allan Poe and much more…
Illustrated by the acclaimed illustrator Fabian Negrín.
Fabian Negrin was born in 1963 in Argentina. He studied Graphic Design in Mexico and has been living in Italy since 1988. He wrote and illustrated more than a hundred children's books for publishers like orecchio acerbo, Creative Editions, Bloomsbury, Knopf, Salani and Mondadori. Besides, he worked as an illustrator for numerous newspapers and magazines. Negrin is one of the most distinguished contemporary illustrators and has won, amongst others, the 2010 Bologna Ragazzi Award (non-fiction).
Oral and written tales about swindlers can be found in all cultures, probably inspired in real characters who lived their lives trying to earn a living. In this way in some stories the main character goes from one place to another either looking for new opportunities, which don’t exist in its homeland, or just following its desires of independence and freedom. The passivity or resignation to their poverty is never an option.
But if there is a thing that characterizes the tales presented in this book is humor. The swindlers are the irresistible comic characters who will make the readers laugh in all ridiculous situations.
In this collection readers will not only find the adaptations of popular characters such as Lazarillo de Tormes or Robin Hood but also a wide variety of stories from different cultures.
Smart as a Whip
Selected and adapted by Pablo Manzano
Illustrated by Francisco Solé
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 174 pages
For ages 9 and over.
Spanish Folktales and Legends
Selected and adapted by Seve Calleja
Illustrated by Raúl Allén
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 312 pages
For ages 9 and over.
This volume collects the most symbolic folktales and legends of Spanish oral and written tradition which will make the reader travel along all the different regions and cultures of the country.
Tales of Princes, Kings and other Powerful Men
Selected and adapted by Pablo Manzano
Illustrated by Albert Asensio
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 144 pages
For ages 9 and over.
In folktales and in Universal Literature the sovereign people have always been in a respectable place: the good-natured, wise men or rather cruel…
This book collects the oral tradition of authors of all times, tales which show all the faces of power.
A World of Stories
Selected and adapted by Mercè López
Illustrated by Anna Gasol and Teresa Blanch
Hardcover with jacket
18,5 x 25cm, 160 pages
For ages 9 and over.
Folktales have been giving answers to all human wonders for centuries. Tales show the complexity of human feelings; they give hope, relief and bravery to fight the adversity of life and help to preserve human rights.
This collection of 36 stories is a display of tales and legends from the five continents of the world along the history of humankind.
Cook Books
An easy and entertaining way to teach children the principles of cooking and to familiarise them with the ingredients, the different ways food is prepared and the utensils used, all with the Mediterranean
diet as a base, a diet recognised around the world for its health benefits.
The book is divided into the four seasons of the year so the children can learn which are the products of each season with a detailed presentation and explanation with step-by-step images to show how to prepare every recipe.
Junior Chef
64 easy, fun and healthy recipes from the Medierranean diet
Mar Ferrero
Marian Montoro
Paperback with flaps
20,5 x 25cm, 168 pages
For ages 5 and over.
Mum, I want to be a pastry chef! It’s a book for children who love to cook and end up with chocolate everywhere discovering new flavours. Parents will also have a good time cooking with the younger ones sharing stoves and aprons.
A book full of recipes with specific vocabulary, ingredients, tricks and tips… all explained in both professional and easy way for the children to learn and enjoy cooking… as real pastry chefs!
Mum, I Want to be a Pastry Chef
64 easy, fun and healthy recipes from the Medierranean diet
Mar Ferrero
Marian Montoro
Paperback with flaps
22 x 22cm, 192 pages
For ages 5 and over.
Sergi Vela
Sergi Vela began his professional career in Barcelona working for the best bakery shops in the city (Santa Gemma, Vilaplana, Comas, Escribà). He worked in Casa Vives with Paco Torreblanca and in the restaurants of Martín Berasategui, Ticolet and Drolma. At present he is working as a teacher in Escola d’Hoteleria i Turisme de Barcelona (EHTB) and in the Chocolate Academy of Gurb. He also gives courses and presentations with Barry Callebaut group and Eurovanille y PCB Creation.
His talent was awarded in Spanish Chocolate Master 2008 and in World Chocolate Master 2009, when his creations were choosen as best chocolate pastry.