ForeignRightsCatalogue SPRING2013 COLLECTION +3 Years Old SIMON THE DRAGON
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 40 SIZE: 21 x 20
SUMMARY: Simon is a little flying dragon who spits fire from his mouth, but he doesn’t scare at all. He has a big heart and is always ready to help his friends and his friends love him back too. If you want to know more about him, you must read his fun adventures!!
PREVIOUS TITLES: CONTENT: SERIES TO ENJOY AND LEARN SIMON THE DRAGON AND THE SNEEZES Stories of a Dragon (an animal very loved by the children but not (SOLIDARITY) so often used as a character for this age group) around subject with educational content. Children will easily learn values such SIMON THE DRAGON AND THE CHOCOLATE LAKE as environmental education or solidarity. Every book analyzes a (ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION) special subject, really important for the youngest ones education!
SIMON THE DRAGON AND THE UNSCARY WOLF Books include tips at the end of each story as a guide for the (FIRE PREVENTION) parents to talk with their child about those different values.
SIMON THE DRAGON AND THE SWEET-TOOTHED And also, five or six activities to do with the child (games, FAIRY (HEALTHY FOOD) handcrafts…).
SIMON THE DRAGON AND THE DIRTY-FACE (PERSONAL HYGIENE) AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR SIMON THE DRAGON CAN’T SLEEP Mercè Arànega paints and exhibits paintings. She has directed (SLEEP DISORDERS) a modelling workshop, she has taught illustration at the la Lonja School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades in Barcelona, she gives classes to school teachers and post-graduates on reading SIMON THE DRAGON AND THE BIG COMPETITION encouragement, and she has also given numerous conferences. (SPORTMANSHIP) She loves visiting schools and libraries to tell boys and girls how to invent a story, and entrust them with the will to read. But what SIMON THE DRAGON STOPPED WETTING THE BED she devotes most of her time to is illustrating and writing, to such (BED-WETTING) an extent that she has made it her profession. KIDS +3 THE ADVENTURES OF... Years Old
SIZE: 21CM X 21CM NUMBER OF PAGES: 12 MATERIAL: CARDBOARD BOOK GADGET ATTACHED WITH GLUE: PLUSH TOY (10 CM).
TITLES: ILLUSTRATORS: THE ADVENTURES OF MOLE & PILL BUG: Marta Montañá was born in Barcelona in 1967 and since she THE FIRST MEETING was a kid she loved getting papers dirty with watercolours. When she grew up, she wanted to work with dolphins or kinds and THE ADVENTURES OF GOAT & BUTTERFLY: the only way of achieving her dream was drawing it up. She is specialized in illustrating books for children and figure drawing. THE BLUE FLOWER She has already illustrated more than 40 books.
THE ADVENTURES OF OWL & HAMSTER: Pablo Zamboni is an Argentinean artist, illustrator and visual THE TABLET communication designer. He has illustrated children books for Warner Bros (Looney Toones), Scholastic and Egmont, among DESCRIPTION: others but he has also designed several advertising campaigns. Interactive cardboard books with a removable stuffed toy. The He currently works in new projects of children’s illustrations. stuffed toy reproduces in miniature the main character of the tale in such a way that the kid can dramatize the story or follow the reading with his or her stuffed toy. Simple and fun stories adapted for each group of age and illustrated with bright colours. +3 Years Old
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SUMMARY: Meet Mole & Pill Bug, Goat & Butterfly and Owl & hamster, three Book 1: The Adventures of couples of fun, innocent and curious friends that will lead your Mole & Pill Bug children through incredible places to discover the world around them. Mole and Pill Bug get together with the intention of running Three books containing each one 6 short stories specially adventures: they decide to dig tunnels that will lead them to conceived to be read aloud. Layouts without text and a double unknown and unexplored places such as: En el colegio (At page with the initial story will give parents and children freedom School); La fábrica del turrón (The Factory); ¿Dónde está el oasis? to ad-lib whatever they are pleased according to their interests or (An Oasis); ¡A del castillo! (A Castle); Nos vemos en el parque imagination!! (The Park and their Animals); Un día en el circo (At the Circus) All of them are close to our children’s present but explaining unexplored adventures for them. KIDS SERIES TALES THAT TALK
Book 2: The Adventures of Book 3: The Adventures of Goat & Butterfly Owl & Hamster
Goat and Butterfly are a special couple who must fulfill a mission. Owl and Hamster are two brothers who receive as a gift a bottle A mission that will drive them to New York, Egypt or the Amazon of magic bubbles. These bubbles will carry them to places river or to build a flying refrigerator (yes, yes, not kidding). They where they will learn many, many things. Places like: ¿De dónde will travel to: Viaje a Nueva York (Big Cities); El cachivache (To vienen los cuentos? (Books and Libraries); Quiero una estrella the Snow); Perdidos en el Amazonas (The Jungle); El secreto de (To the Space); Rumbo al Polo Norte (To the North Pole Life), Las la pirámide (The Desert); Un dulce recuerdo (To the farm); Los Olimpiadas (To the Olimpics); Un dinosaurio en apuros (to the piratas y la olla mágica (To the Sea with the Pirates) Time of Dinosaurs); Un paseo en las nubes (or for a walk in the clouds!) MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 Years Old TREN AZUL
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0411-3 SIZE: 21 x 20
LUCIÉRNAGAS EN AUTHOR: Mariasun Landa (Rentería, 1949) obtained a Philosophy degree EL PARAÍSO in Paris in 1973 and works as a head teacher in the Department of Teacher’s Education of the University of San Sebastián. She has SUMMARY: collaborated with a large number of Basque Country newspapers and magazines, but her creative work has focused primarily on Elsa is asking for a tale again before going to sleep. So she gets to youth literature in Basque language. She has written around thirty hear a difficult one: the story of how the world began, about Adam children’s books and much of her work has been translated into and Eve and about how much they loved each other. Spanish, Catalan, Galician and other foreign languages including Mariasun Landa offers a personal and romantic adaptation of the English, French, German, Greek, Arabic, Korean and Albanian. Her Expulsion from the Garden of Eden beautifully illustrated, where literary awards include the most important of all Basque literature Adam & Eve are helped by glow worms which become the lights prizes, the Lizardi Prize in 1982, the Euskadi Prize in 1991 and that will lead them while coming out of Eden. Dabilen Elea Prize in 2011, but also got the top Spanish award, Page after page this book explains a story to first readers while the National Award for Children’s and Y-A’s literature in 2003, Elsa, the girl, asks again and again “…and then, what happened?” and International recognitions like 2001 White Ravens, 1992 until we reach the end of the story full of glow worms that will IBBY’s honour list. help her falling sleep. ILLUSTRATOR: Tesa González was born in Getxo (Vizcaya) in 1962. She studied at the Oviedo School of Art, where she specialized in Design and Illustration. Since 1992, she has devoted herself professionally to children’s illustrations. She has published many works with the market’s most important publishing houses and she is fully devoted to the world of children’s and young adult literature, illustrating works by the most prestigious authors. Recently, chosen for the Bratislava Biennial of Children’s Illustration, her work has been acknowledged with several national and international nominations and awards. She has illustrated several of the Tucán collection including the 2007 Edebé Children’s Literature Prize. MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 TREN AZUL Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0414-4 SIZE: 21 x 20
SOFÍA Y EL PARAGUAS MÁGICO
SUMMARY: AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Sofia hates the rain. She thinks that the only purpose of rain is to Hugo Román Ballesteros (Valencia, 1978) has a degree in annoy people. When it rains at night she is scared and when it journalism by San Pablo University and it is member of the rains during daytime she can not go to the playground with her Valencia Illustrators association. He worked as journalist and friends. illustrated punctually some children books up until 2010 when he Sofia loves to watch her mother on TV weather forecasting. One published his first book, both, as author and illustrator. Since then day, her umbrella breaks and she takes her mother’s discovering he has not stop drawing and writing tales, his head does not stop that the umbrella is magic. Sofia decides to use the magical creating! He also offers some talks and workshops in writing and umbrella following her desires and, since she hates rain, she drawing. makes the rain stop forever. Several weeks later, her mother notices that plants and rivers are completely dry and discovers http://elblogdehugoroman.blogspot.com.es that Sofia had the umbrella. She explains her daughter that, if there is no rain, she will not be able to do the things she likes the most in life: drinking fresh water, going to the beach, swimming in the pool. Also, the mother promises Sofia that, as soon as it starts raining, she will show her a new game: Jumping in puddles of water!
*Available also in handwriting. MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 Years Old TREN AZUL
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0393-6 SIZE: 21 x 20
LA PRINCESA PERDIDA
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: At palace, the King and queen are really worried because the little Federico Villalobos was born in León in 1966 but he is been princess is lost. Even the vassals of the kingdom are worried. living in Granada for twenty years already. He combines writing They have looked everywhere but the princess does not appear. with his work at a publishing house. He started publishing in 1999 Where is she? They ask everybody in the kingdom for help but and he is now the author of several works for children. Besides, nobody can find her. Suddenly, the jester starts laughing and he has adapted to Young readers several classic works such is La cannot stop. The angry king menaces him. But the jester, far from Odisea, El Quijote or Crimen y castigo and translated to Spanish being scared, tells the king that if he looks a little lower than he authors like Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift y Robert Louis is used to looking, all his sorrows will disappear. The king follows Stevenson. the jester’s advice and looks under his throne, where he finds the little princess!!! The grateful king grants the jester his wish and ILLUSTRATOR: ever since then, in every court in the world, there’s always been a Maria Espluga (Barcelona 1968) is illustrator and sometimes jester with red and green striped tights and a hat with bells. And writer of tales for children as well as costume designer for more importantly The king learned a valuable lesson. If there’s a children’s theatre. She has illustrated more than 100 books child at home, sometimes you have to sink to the occasion instead and she is been awarded with Premio Barcanova of Children of rising. literature in 2010. He has previously illustrated with us ¡Que viene Horripeludo!, Sopa de cola de lagartija or Cómo corregir a una maestra malvada. MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 TREN AZUL Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0810-4 SIZE: 21 X 20
El cangrejo Matías
SUMMARY: ILLUSTRATOR: Matías the crab feels really unlucky because his legs are so thin Gusti Rosemffet, Gustavo Ariel, was born in Buenos Aires that he can’t barely stay standing and he can’t walk as the rest of (Argentina) in 1963. He studied in Fernando Fader Art School the animals on the beach. However, when he realises that walking and worked in animation at the Catú cine-animación and backwards lets him being warned of dangers before the rest of the Hanna Barbera Production companies. From 1985 he lives in animals, he stops blaming himself and helps informing his friends Barcelona. Awards: Spanish Organization for Children’s Books of an enemy arrival. in the Illustrations category in 1988; Pomme D´Or (Bratislava. 1989). Apel•les Mestres (1990); the National Award (1990); the This book is interactive, readers will have to put the book upside Lazarillo Award in Illustration (1991) and the Diploma of Honour, V down on pages 26 and 27 to keep reading! Catalonia Award (1992).
AUTHOR: Álvaro Colomer (Barcelona, 1973) is a writer and a journalist. As a Journalist he does a column for EL MUNDO, one of the main Spanish newspapers, and occasionally for the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel too, he is also a blogger of LA VANGUARDIA, another big newspaper. Moreover he is a regular collaborator of medias such is ‘Yo Dona’, ‘Cultura/s’ (‘La Vanguardia’), ‘Qué Leer’, ‘Mercurio’, ‘Primera Línea’, etc As a writer he has published books on fiction and non fiction too, and has participated in different anthologies too. In 2007 he got the International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2007 and in 2010 won the Enerclub award. MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 Years Old TREN AZUL
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0801-2 SIZE: 21 X 20
¡soy un perro!
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: In the alley of a fish market a little white, puny and coureageous Xabier Lopez Lopez is from Galicia. After previous experiences kitten was born who, for his parent’s shame was telling every cat in the basic cultural associations, which led him to preside Eira that “I am a dog!” Yes, our friend insisted, “A DOG!” Vella Cultural Association from 1999 to 2003, publisher of the biannual magazine “A Xanela” (La Ventana). He has to his credit This lovely tale written with an extraordinary sense of humor, several awards, such as the National Critics Award 2003, Garcia explains the challenge of achieving oneself’s identity, being the Barros and he was finalist of Torrente Ballester Award in 2006. He person we really want to be. This story is characterized by the has also published in My Favourite Blue Train Stories the book “El continuous repetition of some quotes that become the book’s viejo tiburón pierde los dientes”. refrain which children will love. ILLUSTRATOR: Manuel Uhía is a painter, illustrator and graphic desginer. He studied painting at the Royal Academy of San Fernando and in el Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He is currently director of image and graphic design at an advertising agency in Madrid and another in Vigo, activity that he alternates with painting. He is also a regular contributor to national publishers as an illustrator of children’s books. He has also exhibited in several cities in Spain, Germany, Mexico and France. Among his awards as an illustrator, we must hightlight that he was awarded with the Galix Prize in 2004, the distinction in the White Ravens 2009 and the Frei Sarmiento Award for children’s literature in 2010. MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 TREN AZUL Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0808-1 SIZE: 21 X 20
manual de instrucciones
SUMMARY: ILLUSTRATOR: In the middle of the sky, the ship looked like a very bright silvery Francesc Rovira was born in Barcelona on 20 September 1958. As needle. His name was Free. A beautiful name to explore the space. a boy, he spent hours and hours drawing and looping at cartoons, A name full of promises and hopes. Free, like the human spirit. comic strips and the illustrations of books and magazines. He looked at the picture; then he read the text and realised where the This book immerses the reader in a future imagined by the well- illustrator had got his/her idea from. And he decided that he also known writer Jordi Sierra i Fabra. An uncertain future but full of wanted to interpret and explain ideas through drawing. Now he hope since books still exist. This is a beautiful hommage to the provides illustrations for magazines, games and children’s books. book as a source of life. He always works at his desk with a large sheet of white paper, Chinese ink, a selection of nibs, water colours and...sweets.
AUTHOR: Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, 1947), began writing at the age of eight. He has published over sixty history books and biographies of rock artists, and has cultivated all literary genres: children’s tales, children’s and young adult literature, science fiction, comedy, poetry, film scripts... His works have not just obtained the most prestigious prizes, such as the EDEBÉ, Columna and Gran Angular prizes..., but they have also been made into films. He is considered one of the most representative writers of children’s and young adult literature in Spain and he is even more successful in Latin America. In 2012 he was awarded with the prestigious Cervantes Chico. MY FAVOURITE TALES +3 Years Old TREN AZUL
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0904-0 SIZE: 21 X 20
la botella del señor augusto
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: This fun tale, written to be read aloud (the author is a well- Pello Añorga, born in Oiartzun, Basque Country in 1956 was a known storyteller), is really musical since different situations are children teacher between the years 1976 and 1986. Since then, he connected: everything changed for our Mr. Augusto the day he writes stories (in prose and verse) for the youngest readers and bought a boought a bottle of water, because then he wanted a participates in several programs to encourage the love of reading. bag to carry it and then a bike to move faster, then a car to make it even faster. Then a truck and even a plane! Then our Mr. Augusto had an accident and was so disgusted that he felt thirsty ... ILLUSTRATOR: Jokin Mitxelena was born in Donostia in 1962. He studied Fine This tale critices the massive and unjustified consumism. Arts in Bilbao and worked for some time as an art teacher in Germany. Since then, he illustrates books for children for several Spanish, German and Austrian publishing houses.
OUT OF COLLECTION +6 Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 36 ISBN: 978-84-683-0604-9 SIZE: 24,5 x 24,5
JUAN ALQUITRÁN
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: “When I was working at the school library, a 6 year-old girl came Gloria Sánchez García was born in a little village in Galicia, over with a book about giving up smoking. I told her that it wasn’t being the 7th of 8 siblings. After finishing her studies in Teaching, a book addressed to her but she replied: “Is for my dad”. The she started writing books for children and got involved in next day she returned the book. I asked why she told me that her recovering oral tradition. In 1990, she won the prize Merlín and dad couldn’t read it before finishing studying for the competitive the IBBY Honour Diploma for “Fanfarrios”. In 1994 her work examination process. I saw her leaving worried and sad. And, as a “Doctor Rus” was awarded the Edebé Award for children’s good smoker, I promised myself that one day I would write a story literature. for her“. ILLUSTRATOR: How to deal with Children’s fears on your husband or Emilio Urberuaga (Madrid 1954) works in different fields of fine wife being smoker? Remove with a tale like you would arts such is painting, printing, engraving or illustrating. He is the do with every fear, and help him or her to think about it, graphic designer of famous characters such is Manolito Gafotas, ‘cause, John Tar is simply another bogeyman. Olivia or Hilda, the giant sheep. He regularly collaborates with newspapers or magazines, and does cover designs or posters. His books had been translated into different languages such is French, Italian, English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Finnish, German, Lithuanian He has received a lot of awards, on between them highlights, the National Award of Illustration in 2011, the Ospite d’Onore or Serra d’Or critics award. +6 Years Old
STORYLINE THE PRESS Inspector Cito (diminutive of Inspector because he is very “The chemistry between the two different characters works very small), the detective who is famous throughout the world for well. Half way between the album and the book, the illustrations his ingenuity and his love for Spanish omelette, works for the are a key piece of this collection” Leer, 1/02/2008 Department of Strange, Mysterious and SuperDifficult Cases with the help of Chinese sergeant Wee Chou Fear (playing with the “An excellent and fun approach” Iturbe plays with all the topics of name to sound like “Without fear”). the genre, avoiding violence and unnecessary gruesomeness and focusing on wit, deduction talents and shrewdness of detectives. Babelia, El País, 15/03/2010
PREVIOUS TITLES: “Short sentences and well set out, supported by the appropriate illustrations” UN AYUDANTE DE MUCHA AYUDA Qué leer, 01/01/2008 63.000 COPIES SOLD IN ALL ITS EDITIONS IN SPAIN LA MOMIA DESAPARECIDA RIGHTS SOLD TO: EL VISITANTE NOCTURNO BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, THAILAND, PORTUGAL, TURKEY, KOREA, MEXICO, CHINA AND CREECE. UN DÍA EN LAS CARRERAS
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BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 40 ISBN: 978-84-683-0843-2 SIZE: 19 X 15
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un misterio muy mAgnÉtico
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: A magnetic stone weighing a ton disappears without a trace from Antonio G. Iturbe, Zaragoza, 1967, has a degree in Information a Parisian scientific center. It is the biggest piece of magnetite Sciences by the UAB, and has been a book commentator on that exists, this is, the biggest magnet of the world and it has several radio stations as well as a member of the Editorial Board mysteriously disappeared. This is a case that only Inspector Cito of the magazine Qué Leer (What to read), of which he is now and his helper Wee Chou Fear are able to solve. assistant manager since 1996. In 1995 he published his first novel entitled Rectos torcidos. Cito concludes that “something” must have attracted it, for this reason, the magnetite has left out the window. Probably, a big ILLUSTRATOR: piece of iron… but, wait a minute, what can be so huge to attract Alex Omist, born in Barcelona in 1974, has studied at the Elisava this magnetite? Higher School of Design. He currently combines art direction of the magazine Qué leer with his work as a freelance illustrator for a variety of magazines and advertising agencies. He has also illustrated the story Orson y el bosque de las sombras. TRADITIONAL TALES... +6 Years Old FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0584-4 SIZE: 28 x 22
THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: “The Emperor” is the most famous music artist ever: the unique, Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, 1947), began writing at the the best, the biggest. Since his debut and just in five years, he has age of eight. He has published over sixty history books and been 20 times consecutively the No.1 of the top list, one every biographies of rock artists, and has cultivated all literary genres: three months. His five albums have also been number one of the children’s tales, children’s and young adult literature, science best-selling list during the 52 weeks of the year, ousting his own fiction, comedy, poetry, film scripts... His works have not just records every time he released a new one. Everybody falls at his obtained the most prestigious prizes, such as the EDEBÉ, charms. Young, handsome, irresistible. He is the idol of the masses Columna and Gran Angular prizes..., but they have also been in the five continents. made into films. He is considered one of the most representative writers of children’s and young adult literature in Spain and he is And now “The Emperor” is looking for the most extraordinary and even more successful in Latin America. original dress to perform the mega concert of New Year which will be broadcasted internationally. ILLUSTRATOR: Francesc Rovira was born in Barcelona on 20 September 1958. As a boy, he spent hours and hours drawing and looping at cartoons, comic strips and the illustrations of books and magazines. He looked at the picture; then he read the text and realised where the illustrator had got his/her idea from. And he decided that he also wanted to interpret and explain ideas through drawing. Now he provides illustrations for magazines, games and children’s books. He always works at his desk with a large sheet of white paper, Chinese ink, a selection of nibs, water colours and...sweets. TRADITIONAL TALES... +6 FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0604-9 SIZE: 28 x 22
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: It was said that this skyscraper was the tallest building of the Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, 1947), began writing at the world but nobody could remember when it was built. age of eight. He has published over sixty history books and biographies of rock artists, and has cultivated all literary genres: At the beginning, it was just a small house, with few floors. It even children’s tales, children’s and young adult literature, science had a porter’s lodge. Then, as the years went by, they built floors fiction, comedy, poetry, film scripts... His works have not just and floors until its roof got lost at the other side of the clouds. obtained the most prestigious prizes, such as the EDEBÉ, Hundreds or maybe thousands of people live nowadays in the Columna and Gran Angular prizes..., but they have also been skyscraper. In the porter’s lodge live a very very very poor mother made into films. He is considered one of the most representative with his son… on the roof, one of the most famous NBA basketball writers of children’s and young adult literature in Spain and he is player of all the times now retired and solitary. even more successful in Latin America.
ILLUSTRATOR: Francesc Rovira was born in Barcelona on 20 September 1958. As a boy, he spent hours and hours drawing and looping at cartoons, comic strips and the illustrations of books and magazines. He looked at the picture; then he read the text and realised where the illustrator had got his/her idea from. And he decided that he also wanted to interpret and explain ideas through drawing. Now he provides illustrations for magazines, games and children’s books. He always works at his desk with a large sheet of white paper, Chinese ink, a selection of nibs, water colours and...sweets. TRADITIONAL TALES... +6 Years Old FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 32 ISBN: 978-84-683-0605-6 SIZE: 28 x 22
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Nobody could remember when the war started. Also, nobody Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, 1947), began writing at the knew when it exactly ended though there have been no combats, age of eight. He has published over sixty history books and no soldiers nor guns since long time ago. biographies of rock artists, and has cultivated all literary genres: children’s tales, children’s and young adult literature, science People at the valley live again in peace. One of them was Pascal, fiction, comedy, poetry, film scripts... His works have not just a humble woodcutter who had a daughter called Beauty, name obtained the most prestigious prizes, such as the EDEBÉ, which, in fact, honoured her since she was really beautiful. One Columna and Gran Angular prizes..., but they have also been day the woodcutter had an accident and somehow ended in a made into films. He is considered one of the most representative old military post…inside a famous general, known as the Beast, writers of children’s and young adult literature in Spain and he is believes that the war is not end and locks him in a cell, thinking even more successful in Latin America. he is a prisoner. Bella will have to return him to reality. ILLUSTRATOR: Francesc Rovira was born in Barcelona on 20 September 1958. As a boy, he spent hours and hours drawing and looping at cartoons, comic strips and the illustrations of books and magazines. He looked at the picture; then he read the text and realised where the illustrator had got his/her idea from. And he decided that he also wanted to interpret and explain ideas through drawing. Now he provides illustrations for magazines, games and children’s books. He always works at his desk with a large sheet of white paper, Chinese ink, a selection of nibs, water colours and...sweets. LA VIDA DE... +6 CONTADA A LOS NIÑOS Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 48 ISBN: 978-84-683-0803-6 SIZE: 27 X 22,5
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vida y obra de santa teresa de jesús
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: The story of a woman with inner light: her integrity and Rosa Navarro Durán: Professor of Spanish Golden Age intelligence made possible for her to survive during the difficult Literature at the University of Barcelona. Among her text editing, Spain of the sixteenth century. the most notable are of the anonymous writer’s Libro de suertes, the dialogues of Alfonso Valdés, Miguel de Cervantes’ Novelas Although she had health problems since her childhood, Teresa Ejemplares, etc.. She has written La mirada al texto, ¿Por qué hay of Jesús was since then passionate for reading. Very soon, books que leer los clásicos? Cómo leer un poema and numerous articles and her faith in God would become her main allies to achieve on textual problems, topics and text commentaries on the Golden her challenges. It wasn’t easy for her: the Inquisition was always Age. suspicious of the increasing role that she was reaching. However, her creativity and her literary legacy is still considered as one of ILLUSTRATOR: the most brilliant of her time. Jordi Vila Delclós, was born in Barcelona in 1966. He studied first grade of music and percussion, and has played the Life and work of Teresa de Jesús hides multiple messages such vibraphone in several jazz bands. He has also studied illustration as how to awaken the reading habit, the spirit of excellence, at the Llotja School (Higher School of Art and Design). And He kindness, tenacity… These values are synthesized in this has worked as an illustrator since1988. He has illustrated tales, book beautifully illustrated by Jordi Vila Delclós who faithfully novels, albums and text books for several publishers. And he also reproduces the sixteenth century atmospheres. collaborates with graphic designers and architects as well as with production companies and advertising agencies. He does confess, A story that reveals, to whom reads it and to the listener, the life however, that what he likes most is listening to jazz and drawing and work of a great woman: Teresa of Jesus. pirates. +6 Years Old MORE THAN TRANSLATED BINDING: TO14 HARDCOVER WITH EXTRA JACKET 500.000 SIZE: 24 X 19.5 COPIES LANGUAGES SOLD ALREADY
SUMMARY: The classic works closer to younger readers. Their wonderful and Rights sold to: Italy, Lithuania, México, Norway, Portugal, fun adventures, their romances, their dreams, their magic, their Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Canada-Quebec, Chile, teachings have fascinated readers in the wole the world over Venezuela, Korea and The Netherlands. centuries. Thanks to the text by Rosa Navarro Durán and the water colors by illustrator Francesc Rovira, early readers also have ALSO AVAILABLE IN POCKET EDITION FOR the opportunity to get to know these amazing stories. SCHOOLS (PAPERBACK 20X15,5)
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THE BIBLE TOLD TO CHILDREN
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: No one has proved to be more efficient in explaining main books Rosa Navarro Durán, professor of Spanish Golden Age than Professor Navarro, with so much respect to original, keeping Literature at the University of Barcelona. Among her most notable in short versions all the essence of a complete book, and with text editions are those of the anonymous writer’s Libro de suertes, remarkable lexicon close to children and close to the original. She the dialogues of Alfonso Valdés, Miguel de Cervantes’ Novelas already did it with El Quijote, now she does it with The Bible. Ejemplares, etc.. She has written La mirada al texto, ¿Por qué hay que leer los clásicos? Cómo leer un poema and numerous articles A selection of books from both parts, the Old Testament (39) and on textual problems, topics and text commentaries on the Golden the New Testament (42), around 4 pages each and including one Age and contemporary literature. illustration at least. Soft and candid illustrations, with the tender and realistic touch of Francesc Rovira.
ILLUSTRATOR: Francesc Rovira was born in Barcelona on 20 September Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do 1958. As a boy, he spent hours and hours drawing and looping not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” at cartoons, comic strips and the illustrations of books and magazines. He looked at the picture; then he read the text and Matthew 19:14 realised where the illustrator had got his/her idea from. And he decided that he also wanted to interpret and explain ideas through drawing. Now he provides illustrations for magazines, games and children’s books. He always works at his desk with a large sheet of white paper, Chinese ink, a selection of nibs, water colours and...sweets. +6 Years Old TUCÁN BLUE
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 52 ISBN: 978-84-683-0824-1 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
diego en la botella
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Diego is a kid who lives in a bottle. His family, logically, wants him Mar Pavón was born in Manresa. She loved reading and writing to leave the bottle but is not that easy. Apparently, Diego and the since she was young: for this reason she looked lonely but she bottle are inseparable, isn’t them? The visit of a doctor specialised had different worlds inside. Now she has changed the pen and in cases like Diego’s will solve their doubts. paper for a computer, for solitude, a husband and two children. Regarding her worlds, several have turned into published books, This book explains the story of a kid with asperger syndrome: mainly for the youngest readers. Some of them have been written naturally, with an important sense of humour and a great translated into English, French, Portuguese and Korean. In 2011 use of the magic realism, explains the daily routines of a boy and 2012 she was awarded with four prestigious awards in United that suffers a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) related to States of America, two of them were awarded by the International autism but also explains the problems that these circumstances Latino Book Awards. generate around him. ILLUSTRATOR: “Diego en la botella” follows the educational line already Roger Olmos. Born in Barcelona one 23 December 1975, he established in previous titles of these Tucan series as “Down”, by began to take his first steps as an apprentice scientific illustrator An Alfaya and “Voy sobre ruedas”, by Xabier Mendiguren, books at a well-known Barcelona hospital. Four years later he started that already deal with finding ways of integration of special needs at the Llotja Avinyó School where he specialized in children’s children into mainstream society using fiction. illustration. In1999, he was chosen at the Bologna fair, where he contacted the first publishing house that published his first album. Two years later he was chosen again and was awarded his first White Raven. He has also received the Llibreter Prize (2006) and the Lazarillo Prize (2008). To date, he has published over thirty works, book covers, and has collaborated in the press in advertising and television. +8 TUCÁN BLUE TUCÁN ORANGE Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 168 ISBN: 978-84-683-0864-7 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
esas cosas que no se ven a simple vista
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Princess Odolfa can’t see the point of having to wear glasses, who Margarita García Gallardo was born in Madrid in 1967. has seen a princess wearing glasses? princesses DON’T wear She holds a degree in veterinary science by the Compultense glasses, but thanks to her new friends Pest, who is a really pest University of Madrid. Since her childhood, she has developed and Lito, a friend who also wears glasses, she will find out litte her liking for literature, but it wasn’t until much later that she by little that her glasses are more useful as she thinks and that, If decided to take the step from being an avid reader to becoming more of the princesses in the fairy tales wore their glasses, things an amateur writer. She currently juggles her labours as a health would have worked out much better for them... Furthermore, inspector, housewife and mother with her passion for writing. Odolfa wouldn’t have discovered one of the most important secrets of her family without her glasses… ILLUSTRATOR: Stefanie Pfeil was born in Germany during the summer of 1969. However, she moved to Barcelona twenty years ago. Since then she has not stopped illustrating books for children and young adults and magazines. She has also even written a book for children! Her web is: http://www.stefaniepfeil.com/ +10 Years Old TUCÁN GREEN
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 208 ISBN: 978-84-683-0839-5 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
la pelota japler
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: “My name is April and I have an elder brother called Biel (Gabriel) Jordi Cervera was born in Reus (Tarragona) in 1959. His who is a monster that doesn’t stop ruining my life. I would like to professional career has always been linked to the world of culture, tell you what happened to me during this summer holidays which especially developing his profession as a journalist heading I though they would be a complete disaster but ended up being a several radio programmes and periodical publications. He has also great, fantastic and unusual adventure.” worked as editor and script writer, while cultivating his vocation as a literary writer. To this end , his works span the genres of April spends the afternoon playing soccer with Emma and other poetry and the novel, and he has been awarded several prizes. He boys. They have lots of fights since they all are individualist is married and has a daughter. players. One afternoon, they visit the house next to the soccer field that is apparently abandoned but there they will find lots ILLUSTRATOR: of souvenirs of a well-known goalkeeper: Ian Japler, “The White Francesc Rovira was born in Barcelona on 20 September Octopus”, who happened to mysteriously disappear long time 1958. As a boy, he spent hours and hours drawing and looping ago. They will also find a ball in the house but when they start at cartoons, comic strips and the illustrations of books and shooting it the doors of the house beginning to close behind magazines. He looked at the picture; then he read the text and them!! They will have to work together as a team to find out how realised where the illustrator had got his/her idea from. And the ball work and go out of the house! he decided that he also wanted to interpret and explain ideas through drawing. Now he provides illustrations for magazines, games and children’s books. He always works at his desk with a large sheet of white paper, Chinese ink, a selection of nibs, water colours and...sweets. +10 TUCÁN GREEN Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 160 ISBN: 978-84-683-0865-4 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
érase una aldea sin suerte
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: This is the story of a town where the neighbours live happily until Teresa Núñez was born in Madrid and she has studied literature, they realise that in the nearby town, neighbours are luckier than children’s psychology, scriptwriting and she writes work of them. They decide to ask the sorceress Beremunda to create for theatre, prose fiction and poetry. She has written several books them a talisman that gives bad luck to people who handle it… using the nickname of Paul Lattimer and Vicky Doran. She has However, they will lose control on this talisman and everything published more than 30 tales, a short novel and fifteen collections will get ruined. The sheperd Littleluck is the only person who of poems. She has obtained several literature awards. runs away of this luck because he doesn’t believe in talismans. Littleluck will keep his home and his livestock and he even will ILLUSTRATOR: enrich himself unexpectedly. He will become the princess’ White Anuska Allepuz was born in Madrid in 1979. She studied Fine husband and he will become king when the current king dies. Arts in Universidad de Salamanca, in the Accademie di Belle Arti di Carrara (Italy) and in the Universität der Künste in Berlin. This book is an universal tale, appropriate for any country or Her work has been selected for the Bologna Exhibition in 2009. culture. Currently she lives in London where she doesn’t stop illustrating books for children and young adults. If you want to know more about her, visit her blog: http://www.anuskaallepuz.com/ +10 Years Old TUCÁN GREEN
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 192 ISBN: 978-84-683-0852-4 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
smerling: en la tela de la araña
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: The car breaks down unexpectedly when Bernar, Sara, Tomás Lola Gándara is the pseudonym with which Dolores González and Aline, a group of troubled kids, are coming back from the Lorenzo signs her novels for young people and adults, although summer camp, so they have to spend the night at his teacher’s under her real name she has also published many children’s tales. friend house, a big ramshackle mansion called Smerling. The name She was born in Celanova (Orense) in 1942. She obtained a degree Smerling comes from the book saga that the ancient owner of the in Law and Spanish and works as a teacher of Spanish language house, Amanda Miller, wrote. The saga explains the story of two and literature. For some years she has directed a children’s theatre kingdoms: in the story there is a curse and a prophecy. The last company and has taken part in several theatre projects. She has volume of this saga is unfinished since the author died in a car also worked as a script writer for television programmes. She has crash. been awarded prizes and special mentions in all of the facets in which she writes. The house is now a foundation and a museum and is a place full of strange prohibitions that the gang of course won’t follow. The ILLUSTRATOR: children will discover in the house strange things that seem to be Anthony Garner has studied graphic design at Berkshire taken from the saga and others that their imagination will build College of Art, Reading, he worked as a copywriter at advertising up to a scaring and mysterious point! agency Young & Rubicam, London, from 1988 to 1992. The following year he moved to Barcelona and shortly after, began to collaborate as the caricaturist for the local newspaper ECO. Since then he has collaborated as a freelance illustrator working for press, books, advertising, theatre and TV in Spain and in other countries. He is member of APIC (Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia) since 1997. +10 TUCÁN GREEN Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 144 ISBN: 978-84-683-0901-9 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
dieciocho inmigrantes y medio
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Claudio has a special way of seeing the world. Or maybe doesn’t. Roberto Santiago was born in Madrid in 1968. He studied He might just be an honest kid who watches carefully all that Journalism in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well happens around him… in this new story starred by Claudio, as literary creation in the Escuela de Letras. He is a director and immigrants are expeled from his school, for legal reasons, also his scriptwriter, mainly of films and TV series. As well, apart from teacher but Félix, Claudio’s eldest brother demonstrates himself cinema, his other vocation is literature and he is really successful against it with a fun banner that says: I’M ALSO AN IMMIGRANT. between children and young adults. His books have obtained After the unconventional sit-in protest, some immigrants join literary awards such important as the Edebe Children’s Literature them and their action becomes a massive success and everybody Award, and they have turned films. at school, including teachers and parents, join them. But, even though the sit-in protest is a massive success, there is a little ILLUSTRATOR: problem, this is, immigrants will have to leave anyway… Santiago García-Clairac, author of successful children and young adult books, is also an important advertising creative and “Dieciocho inmigrantes y medio” is an independent sequel of illustrator. In fact, his most important hobby is drawing, as he “El último sordo”, written by the same author and published by demonstrates when illustrating some of his own creations, or this edebé. Claudio is the main character in both books. series “El mundo según Claudio”. +10 Years Old
DO YOU LIKE BEING SCARED, DON’T YOU? STORYLINE: 105.000 The gang made up of Álvaro, Cris, Belén and David, The Fearless, COPIES awaits you with its terrifying adventures. SOLD
Gang stories and adventures have always been one of children’s favourite things to read: this is the reason we brought José María Plaza five years ago to begin the literary project “The Fearless”. The THE FEARLESS ACHIEVEMENTS: stories are set in mysterious and odd backgrounds: abandoned houses, ruined castles, cemeteries, creepy monasteries. The ingredients of • Available in e-Book these novels are not only mystery and horror, but also humour. • Catalan editions In “The Fearless” the adventure is as important as the relationship between the characters, so different to each other: Álvaro, the boy • Special title: who tells the history and with scientific aims, Belén, a girl with Las Historias de Terror del Libro Rojo de David practical attitude and that loves action above all, Cristina, feminine and with the passion of readings, and David, the fun character that triggers the humorous moments. COLLECTION THE FEARLESS
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 288 ISBN: 978-84-683-0724-4 SIZE: 20,5 X 13
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la puerta secreta del Museo del prado
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour), the well-known José María Plaza was born in Burgos. He studied painting by Diego Vélazquez (the leading artist of the Spanish Communication Science (Journalism), a profession he has pursued Golden Age) has been stolen in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, in several of its fields. He worked in the Culture and Education and replaced by a fake one. Our friends will be involved in an sections of Diario 16 until he left the daily press to devote himself investigation case that will overwhelm them. And the worst is full time to literary creation, although he continues to collaborate that the Museo del Prado is full of secret passageways and… with newspapers in background articles, etc. Currently, his works surprises… can be read both in El Mundo and in several literary journals. As regards his career in literature, he has published several novels for young people, children’s tales, poetry compilations and novels of adults.
ILLUSTRATOR: Noemí Villamuza was born in Palencia in 1971. The eldest of four sisters, she has always loved drawing. She obtained her degree in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca where she discovered her professional niche in drawing: illustration. After tirelessly illustrating several text books, she began to work to create tales. She went to live in Barcelona –where she still resides– in 1998 and it was then that she really began her editorial trajectory. To date she has published over thirty titles in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She also works as a teacher of future illustrators at the Massana school. +10 Years Old
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3rd 3rd edition edition
NUMBER OF PAGES: 210 NUMBER OF PAGES: 231 NUMBER OF PAGES: 304 NUMBER OF PAGES: 228 ISBN: 978-84-683-0301-1 ISBN: 978-84-683-0304-8 ISBN: 978-84-683-0389-5 ISBN: 978-84-683-0702-2
STORYLINE: TITLES: What would have happened if Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie had met as children? What adventures would they have LOS DIEZ PÁJAROS ELSTER lived together? What mysteries would they have solved together? (ELSTER’S TEN BIRDS) Las aventuras de Alfred and Agatha shows us the fictional childhood of the two most important masters of suspense of our time. EL CHELÍN DE PLATA (SHILLING SILVER) Alfred is a reserved, introverted and full of complexes however Agatha is full of life, curious and full of self-esteem. In fact, she directs her own detective agency, “Miller & Jones” and now LA CAJA MÁGICA she is an important private investigator. Alfred comes from a (THE MAGIC BOX) working class neighbourhood, the East End but Agatha lives with her family in the most bourgeois area of the Victorian London. Even though the differences are quite visible, both kids will EL PIANISTA QUE SABÍA demonstrate that their friendship is more important than any difference. Together with the kids, there is another main character, DEMASIADO Morritos Jones, Agatha’s dog: she is exotic and perceptive. (THE PIANIST WHO KNEW TOO MUCH)
The plot of the stories revolves around the different aspects, characters and situations from the works of the more well known Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie. Also some details of their personal lives are used to describe the characters of this series. At RIGHTS SOLD TO: the end of each book, the reader will discover some of them in a section call “Did you know that…” ITALY & TURKEY SERIES ALFRED & AGATHA
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 304 ISBN: 978-84-683-0847-0 SIZE: 20,5 X 14
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TITLES: El gran truco de houdini LOS DIEZ PÁJAROS ELSTER (ELSTER’S TEN BIRDS) SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Alfred and Agatha, with his little friend Morritos Jones, are Ana Campoy was born in Madrid in 1979, and since childhood enjoying the hospitality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his house has felt an attraction towards books. After many years as a EL CHELÍN DE PLATA in Edimburgh. There they would realise that a strange thief compulsive reader she enrolled in the Universidad Complutense (SHILLING SILVER) is planning to steal the diamond Koh-i-noor in a train that de Madrid where she received a degree in Audiovisual would take them back to London. Helped by the great Harry Communication. For many years she balanced work in film, Houdini, a well-known magician friend of Sir Arthur, the kids television and print journalism, working as editor, director LA CAJA MÁGICA and Morritos will take the train with the aim of protecting the and a screenwriter. Her experience in media such as RTVE, (THE MAGIC BOX) diamond. To protect it they will face a challenge full of mysteries, Cuatro or Televisión del Congreso de los Diputados refined disappearances and even extraordinary magic tricks her communicative skills. Currently she works as a writer and journalist. EL PIANISTA QUE SABÍA ILLUSTRATOR: DEMASIADO Alex Alonso was born in Valencia in 1976, and since school (THE PIANIST WHO KNEW TOO MUCH) displayed a strong interest in drawing. Whilst studying at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, he specialised in graphic design and illustration, fields that he put to professional use working in illustration, corporate branding, layout and poster design. This versatility would eventually find a more creative outlet. +10 Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 272 ISBN: 9978-84-683-0481-6 SIZE: 20,5 x 13
Their World is skateboarding: the freedom that gives them, their desire to excel, and its New complicity as friends. The city Series is their skate park, which is not always a friendly scenario… They are the SKATERS.
en El filo
THE SERIES: SUMMARY: Familiy relations, hobbies, love and cohabitation are the most The family environment is strained since Eva’s boys are entering important subjects of these three books even though architecture, adolescence. The two brothers, Imanol (14-years-old) and Adrián technology and contemporary art will underline the argument of (11-years-old), don’t get really well lately, therefore, her mother each book and of course overall of it, the skate world will be also decides that from now and one, they will had to go out together, relevant on within the trim. as a duty. In fact, Imanol loves skating and hanging out with Placed in no city in particular, this is the most urban, actual, his skating friends practising ollies, bondless, kickflips, shov-its, realistic series ever published by Edebe. grinding… Instead, Adrián loves being at home, reading, and has not many friends because everybody considers him an egghead or a freaky boy. Nevertheless, what it seemed a crazy idea of their mother, ended bringing surprising results even for themselves? First, because unexpectedly Imanol’s friends enjoy his brother and then because their complicity will be reinforced when they discover strange marks (which look like a map…) in the ancient neo-gothic cathedral of the city.
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Mikel Valverde, writer and illustrator, was born in Vitoria, Basque Country, in 1966. He studied Fine Arts in Leioa. When he finished his studies, his friends convinced him to get into children’s literature and soon he realized that illustrating for children was what he enjoyed the most in life!! So he kept illustrating books for years and also doing comics up until a day he decided that maybe he could write more than a Comic! He is the author of a series called Rita’s world and now Skaters. http://mikelvalverde.blogspot.com.es SERIES SKATERS
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 272 ISBN: 978-84-683-0482-3 NUMBER OF PAGES: 320 ISBN: 978-84-683-0483-0 SIZE: 20,5 x 13
New Series
EL HOMBRE SIN PASADO OJO POR OJO
SUMMARY: SUMMARY: My name is Natalia Barrachina de Sastre. I’m in the fourth grade On the third and last title of these series, the skaters have become Since Adrián goes out with his elder brother, he has changed. the promotional icon of their city, they represent the modernity of But also the skaters have been influenced by his peculiar way of the new museum in town. They shoot an advertisement next to seeing the world. However, none of them pays attention to the the contemporary art museum of the city where they are skating strange wanderer who has lost his memory but is announcing the and drawing graffiti’s. end of the world in the middle of the square and who everybody knows as “The Apocalypse Man” until… However, short time after recording the advertisement, the authorities prevent them from skating, something which they don’t accept and they declare their rebelliousness. A strange graffiti appears all of the sudden and Imanol is falsely accused of vandalism. Trying to demonstrate that they are not guilty, Imanol, his friends and his young brother will get involved in a terrific mystery. +12 TUCÁN RED Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 136 ISBN: 978-84-683-0728-2 SIZE: 19,5 x 13
EL SOMBRERO DE LAS IDEAS DESCABELLADAS
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Ana is a 10-year-old girl who feels underestimated by her mother, José Antonio Francés (Sevilla, 1968) is a Spanish language who is always telling her off for unimportant things. One day, Ana teacher and editor of school text-books as well as a prolific writer. finds on the ground in front of millinery a strange top-hat and He writes fiction, tales, theatre plays for children, press articles. decides to return it to the shop. But before she could do anything, On between his published books stand up the adult fiction “Soy the hatter came out of the shop, yelling out really angry, thinking tonto y además lo sé” (Bosque de palabras, 2007), and the series that Ana has tried the hat on! And moreover Ana’s mother gets of short tales “Miedo me da” with whom she got the Ateneo de angry too, because she thinks that Ana has tried to steal the hat to Sevilla award. this ancient man!?!?!? To calm things down, they finally decide that Ana would go next ILLUSTRATOR: Monday to help Pan, the hatter, cleaning the shop. Manuel Domínguez Guerra (Alcalá de Guadaira, 1958) is a That day, Ana is cleaning the shop shelves when she hears a painter, engraving and sculptor. His work as a painter, engraving strange noise that comes from a locked room. Following her and sculptor. His work characterizes by evocative expression curiosity, Ana disobeys the old man instructions, she opens the of the human feelings and a search of credibility in its form. door and… everything happens really quickly, a strange strong His work has been in several individual exhibitions in Spain, wind blows all the hats away from the shop. They run away Switzerland and Germany, and has obtained several painting because they are not normal hats but magic and clever ones. And awards. moreover Ana and Pan will have to find those twelve hats before www.guerrarte.com midnight or the city will be really in danger. Recovering them will not be easy since each hat change or potent the personality of the one who wears it. We will accompany Ana and Pan through vanity, invisibility, darkness, luxury, greed, meanness. TUCÁN RED +12 Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 208 ISBN: 978-84-683-0838-8 SIZE: 19,5 X 13
la edad del loro
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Rita is the youngest of the family. She is twelve and is really angry Gisela Pou was born in Barcelona in 1959. She studied Biology with his brother Quino because, since he appears in a sitcom and has an MA of Television scriptwriting. She is been writing called “The Clumsy Age” he has thousands of teenager fans for more than twenty years already, scriptwriting’s for well- following and screaming to him and seems to have forgotten that known Spanish television serials, as well as books for well known he has a sister… to bother or to fool around. Rita’s mother is a publishers such is SM, Planeta, Anaya or Columna on between jazz singer and travels a lot, while her father, who is a scriptwriter, others. This is her first book for edebé, a work that became finalist spends all day at his desk. After thinking a lot about it, Rita of the XX edebe award contest at children’s category. She also decides that he has to do something to bring her brother back to does scriptwriting master classes. reality. But her crazy funny ideas end up being a disaster and the family relations instead of improving get worst and worst… ILLUSTRATOR: Francisco Ruizgé was born in Valencia and studied Fine Arts. A fresh and dynamic story about the awkward age, fame, He has taught in several university and art schools. He has friendship, family relations explain in a very realistic but mainly illustrated for the French market and his works have humoristic way. The plot is close to a sitcom and will try to make been published in Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany and you laugh and think at the same time. Spain. If you want to know more about him, you can visit his blog http://ruizge.blogspot.com +12 Years Old TERROR EN LA RED I
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Social networks are not always a comfortable and secure virtual community of friends. They also hold dangers and perhaps even the death.
SECOND TITLE COMING SOON
terror en la red 1 EL CHICO QUE VIVÍA ENCERRADO EN UNA HABITACIÓN
SUMMARY: AUTHORS: “Hi, it’s Nerea and I’m writing you this because my brother has Antonio Lozano was born in Barcelona in 1974. He got a degree disappeared. I found your name in the list of contacts that “The in Journalism by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Shadow” had added as a friend. The last thing my brother did he is doctor of Humanities by the Pompeu Fabra University of before disappearing was adding this “Shadow” to his friend’s list Barcelona. Between 1997 and 2008 he was editor in Qué Leer on Facebook. If I’m not wrong, all the profiles who added it are Magazine, the most important literature magazine in Spain and now inactive, but yours. Please, get back to me asap, I’m a bit currently he is cultural journalist for a lot of Medias. He is the scared. author of several books for children as well as member of the jury Thanks, XX.” of the RBA international prize for crime writing. This is how starts a very fascinating thriller where Nerea, a teenager too brave for his age, and Derek, a young boy who suffers Álvaro Colomer (Barcelona, 1973) is a writer and a journalist. from agoraphobia, have the only key to save six missing guys. As a Journalist he does a column for EL MUNDO, one of the main In a race against time, Derek and Nerea, will develop a research Spanish newspapers, and occasionally for the German newspaper on their own. He knows all the hidden secrets and languages Der Tagesspiegel too, he is also a blogger of LA VANGUARDIA, intricacies of the Net while she can be his legs and his eyes on the another big newspaper. Moreover he is a regular collaborator of outside world. And, by the way, what a couple of eyes! By the dint medias such is ‘Yo Dona’, ‘Cultura/s’ (‘La Vanguardia’), ‘Qué Leer’, of seeing each other on Skype screens, between Derek and Nerea ‘Mercurio’, ‘Primera Línea’, etc As a writer he has published books emerge something that will go beyond the struggle to save those on fiction and non fiction too, and has participated in different boys. Something that will be definitive to intercept the terrible anthologies too. In 2007 he got the International Award for plans of “The Shadow.” Excellence in Journalism 2007 and in 2010 won the Enerclub award. FANTASY +12 Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 240 ISBN: 978-84-683-0716-9 SIZE: 21 x 14
A group of one hundred 11-year-old boys and girls living together in their school, isolated from the outside world, no adults, no parents, no teachers, but a challenge per day that they will have to overcome in order to remain last one, in order to be the winner.
Alexandra y las siete pruebas (YOU ARE THE videogamE)
SUMMARY: AUTHORS: “I am Alexandra, I am eleven years old and I’m going to spend a Roberto Santiago was born in Madrid in 1968. He studied week in my school. There will be only boys and girls of my age. It journalism but he is a multifaceted man that has succeeded as a might sound crazy but I promise you that all what I am going to writer, film director and script writer. He has worked for several tell you is truth.” TV series and programs. He has directed three films “El penalty Alexandra is a normal girl but she is mad at videogames. Her más largo del mundo”, El sueño de Iván” and “Hombres felices”. school is moreover well-known because Alfonso Giménez He has written a dozen of children fictions, and got the edebe Dom, the owner and founder of Dom Industries, the biggest Award in 1999. multinational videogame corporation, studied there for a long time. In fact, a picture of him illustrates the front door of the Angela Armero is a TV and cinema scriptwriter. She has written school. Now Mr. Dom is back to school with a proposal: that two of the most important Spanish TV series (MIR, Hospital the kids test a new revolutionary videogame where the player Central, among others). She is teacher of the prestigious school will not play the game but live in the same game. What could be of creative writing Hotel Kafka. This is her first incursion in young more exciting for Alexandra than a new expected videogame? adult literature. Nevertheless, Alexandra’s parents don’t trust Mr. Dom intentions. Will Alexandra manage it to participate on the test? Has Mr. Dom other intentions besides the test? A story that will grab the reader and leave him or her without breathe. Edebé Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
DAVID CIRICI AND PILAR MOLINA, WINNERS OF THE 21st EDITION OF THE EDEBÉ AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
lITERATURE AWARD Musgo CHILDREN’S CATEGORY WINNER
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David Cirici
AUTHOR SUMMARY
David Cirici (Barcelona, 1954) was a language and literature Musgo is a dog that loves riding in the bicycle basket seeing teacher, radio and TV scriptwriter and currently, he is an trees and clouds crossing. He also loves following his shadow advertising agent: all his careers have been related to writing between the hanging sheets and blankets, running behind stories.He has published several young adult and adult fiction children or nibble Janinka’s bicycle pedal. He is a happy in- books and has received several awards for example, the Premi home dog until war separates him brutally from Janinka and Ramon Muntaner de literatura juvenil (Young Adult Literature Mirek, the two kids that live with him at home and who tickle Award Ramón Muntaner), the Marià Vayreda Award or the 23 his belly with his barefoot feet. A bomb erases everything Musgo d’Abril Award. In 2011 he was awarded with Prudenci Bertrana knows and leaves the dog without home or family. Surviving in award. a city in ruins, Musgo discovers things that he doesn’t like, for example, his guts grinding, be covered with fleas and mites or nobody calling him his name. ILLUSTRATOR However, although the sad smell of war, Musgo will never give up on his search of the slight spicy smell of his beloved Esther Burgueño holds a degree in Fine Arts from the and missed Janinka. In a context that nobody can understand, University of Barcelona. Over the last few years, Esther has Musgo will have to learn to be a street dog, a wild dog, a specialised in providing illustrations for books, from young adult watchful dog and even a circus dog. The path will not be easy fiction and children’s books, to textbooks, supplementing this but Musgo will overcome the challenge until his sense of smell with occasional freelance illustrations in the national media takes him back to the one he loves. and book covers for adult titles. In 2009 she was awarded Lola Anglada award for “Set contes d’Ukanaburu”. According to Roberto Santiago, member of EDEBÉ Literature Awards, “the author uses the point of view of the dog Musgo as a powerful literary resource of first order to create a truly and original vision of the world.” 21st Edebé Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature edition 2013
DAVID CIRICI AND PILAR MOLINA, WINNERS OF THE 21st EDITION OF THE EDEBÉ AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
lITERATURE AWARD Tesa young adult CATEGORY WINNER
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 232 ISBN: 978-84-683-0898-2 SIZE: 20,5 X 13
Pilar Molina
AUTHOR SUMMARY
Pilar Molina Llorente (Madrid, 1943) is graduated in Fine Tesa, her grandma and great grandma move to an old big Arts but also studied music, philology and psychology. She flat. Every night, while she is in her auntie Dely’s room, Tesa has translated several works for children and young adult and wakes up shaken up because of strange and scary noises in the has been awarded with several awards. She is internationally hundred-year flat. well-known since her work “El aprendiz” (15 editions in Spain) When everything is silent, it seems that the old flat comes to was translated in more than 10 languages: (The Apprentice, life and stretches itself making crackle the beams, furniture published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, US) (Le petit peintre de and antiques that her grandma and great grandma love. But Florence, published by Hachette Jeuneusse (France), (Das it’s not the noises that call Tesa’s attention but the strange Geheimnis des Meister Cosimo published by Arena Verlag appearance of a character with red eyes standing at the foot (Germany) just to name a few of international editions) and of her bed. Tesa will have plenty of things to discover behind she won the American Library Association Notable Children’s hidden doors, closed balconies and, above all, the mysterious Books, Mildred L. Batchelder Award. Pilar Molina Llorente is office of his great grandfather where nobody has entered in since the sole Spanish author who has won this prestigious award Tesa’s father was a child. A secret that will break the barriers of that reckons the most outstanding children’s book originally family’s mysteries and will take the characters, literally, to other published in a language other than English and subsequently dimension translated into English for publication in the United States. st 21 edition EDEBÉ AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
1993 Acuérdate de los dinosaurios, Ana María Children’s Gabriel Janer Manila 1994 Aydin Category Jordi Sierra i Fabra 1995 Doctor Rus Winners Gloria Sánchez 1996 El estanque de los patos pobres Fina Casalderrey - CCEI list of honour 1997 Gata García Pilar Mateos 1998 Un caracol para Emma Albert Roca 1999 Jon y la máquina del miedo Roberto Santiago 2000 El camino del faro Miquel Rayó Finalist in the Children’s and Young Adult Literature National Award Serra d’Or 2001 Declared deserted 2002 ¿Quieres ser el novio de mi hermana? Maite Carranza Best work in the “Qué llegeixes?” competition 2005 2003 Korazón de Pararrayos Andreu Sotorra 2004 Mi abuelo el Presunto Paloma Bordons 2005 La escuela de los piratas Agustín Fernández Paz 2006 Rosanda y el arte de birli birloque Ángeles González-Sinde 2007 Los perfectos Rodrigo Muñoz Avia 2008 ¡No es tan fácil ser niño! de Pilar Lozano 2009 Sopa de cola de lagartija Marta Gené Camps 2010 Mi hermano el genio Rodrigo Muñoz Avia - Atrapallibres Award 2011 En busca del Tesoro de Kola Edna López 2012 Parque Muerte Fernando Lalana 2013 Musgo David Cirici edition EDEBÉ AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
1993 El Príncipe de la Niebla Carlos Ruiz Zafón - CCEI list of honour Young 1994 Trece años de Blanca Adult’s Agustín Fernández Paz 1995 La Voz de Madrugada Category Joan Manuel Gisbert 1996 El diccionario de Carola Winners Carmen Gómez Ojea 1997 El último trabajo del señor Luna César Mallorquí - White Ravens 1998 Protagonista Jove Award 1998 El caso del artista cruel Elia Barceló 1999 La cruz de El Dorado César Mallorquí 2000 Mimí al volante Milio Rodríguez Cueto 2001 La oveja negra Pasqual Alapont - White Ravens 2002 - Serra d’Or 2002 2002 Las Lágrimas de Shiva César Mallorquí - “Liburu Gatzea” Award 2003 Laluna.com Care Santos 2004 La tripulación del pánico Pau Joan Hernández 2005 Los dueños del paraíso Andreu Martín 2006 Llamando a las puertas del cielo Jordi Sierra i Fabra - White Ravens 2007 / CLIJ 2007 2007 Cordeluna Elia Barceló 2008 Huida al Sur de Juan Madrid 2009 Muerte a seis veinticinco Jordi Cervera 2010 Palabras envenenadas Maite Carranza - White Ravens 2011 - Serra d’Or 2011 2011 Children’s & Young Adult Literature Spanish National Award Winner 2011 El espíritu del último verano Susana Vallejo 2012 La Isla de Bowen César Mallorquí - Best Young-Adult Book 2012 2013 Tesa Pilar Molina +14 Years Old PERISCOPIO
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 200 ISBN: 978-84-683-0713-8 SIZE: 20,5 x 13
NUANE
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Nuane is a twelve-year old girl from Numantia, an ancient Olga Latorre studied Journalism and media in Madrid. Celtiberian settlement. Her father and brothers are important Documentaries, comics, illustrations and writing are among her warriors. Nuane loves listening to the stories that Avaros, the passions, she uses these skills to express herself and understand potter, tells her about Romans to satisfy her curiosity. Nuane the world. She also enjoys foreign languages; this is why she doesn’t want to grow up as a woman but as a warrior, like the enjoys teaching Spanish in London where she lives. men she admires: Her imagination gets lost in the battles against She learnt to ride her bike in Fornells (Minorca) where she lived Romans that she did not lived and seem so far away. But her where her parents and sisters. She learnt to swim between the imagination becomes reality when her town is under siege by islands and the Iberian Peninsula, he learnt to read thanks to the Romans. Nuane cannot get involved in the battle thus she is Tintin. She travelled since she was a girl thanks to the stories her a young woman but when they run out of food and even warriors father told her, the tales her mother read to hear since she didn’t too, her help will became essential. She will have to go fishing have a TV. hiding from the Romans or escape from the siege, with her father and brothers, to ask for help to the neighbouring villages.
Nuane, in spite of her age, will stop being a little girl of the sudden and she will soon realise the dangers of war. This book denounces war and its destruction and is a declaration for peace. +14 PERISCOPIO Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 208 ISBN: 978-84-683-0708-4 SIZE: 20,5 x 13
LA JOVEN A LA QUE AMABAN LAS HADAS
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Giufré, Lord of Montfranc, has to run away from his own castle Armando Boix (Sabadell, 1966), who is a writer and illustrator, with his wife Fatima and their baby daughter, Lionor, since studied Fine Arts in Escola Massana. Since 1994, he has published Giufré’s young brother, Bernat, looking for the Lordship has young adult novels and a lot of short tales, his favourite gender, accused Fátima of witchcraft. for several magazines and for anthologies. He has also written Bernat catches them, kills Giufré and arrests Fátima. But Lionor articles and essays about fantasy and science-fiction. He has escapes thanks to her mother’s gift of connecting with fantastic several literary awards (Gran Angular, Gigamesh, Alberto creatures that live in the forest. Fatima begs Ondina Mirríam to Magno...) and currently he works in a veteran bookshop. protect her baby and Mirríam on her side manages that Grandma María, an ancient woman that lives in the forest, adopts the baby. Lionor grows up in the forest, in a wild and free environment without knowing nearly anything about her origins, until an unexpected and casual visit of two soldiers from Bernat drives her to discover her past. Lionor then decides to go looking for her mother, who is taken as a prisoner in the castle. On her way, she meets a young jester called Gerbert, who will become her protector and friend and who will help her to release her mother. Although who will really help them will be the magic creatures since Lionor has inherited her mother’s gift of communicating with them. +14 Years Old PERISCOPIO
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 176 ISBN: 978-84-683-0714-5 SIZE: 20,5 x 13
california barbie
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: I met her in the International School of Languages. I do not Andreu Martín was born in Barcelona in 1949. He studied understand why she paid attention to me. I had also noticed her, Psychology. He worked as a comic script writer and collaborated although this is easier to understand: she was a beauty Queen. in numerous magazines. In 1979, he published his first novel, We fell in love. But then, we were only fourteen year old. We cried Aprende y calla (Be quiet and learn), with which he started off his bitterly when leaving. It was my first real kiss. He went back to successful long career in black genre writing. He has published her San Francisco home, although things did not end there. We several books, for adults as well as for young-adults, and for kept in touch online for years until ... until she became famous, which he has obtained several renown and international awards a very famous singer and actress star. When I finally ended high such is for example Circulo del Crimen, Deutsche Krim school and passed the university exams with good grades, my Preis International, La Sonrisa Vertical, Hammet, Ateneo parents had no other choice but paying me the ten day trip to de Sevilla… He also won our Edebé award for the work LOS California, as they had promised me. And I left in a hazard venture, DUEÑOS DEL PARAÍSO. ready to recover my love, not knowing by then in which exciting adventure I was getting involved. +14 PERISCOPIO Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 152 ISBN: 978-84-683-0834-0 SIZE: 20,5 X 13
la prisionera
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: With a combination of discretion, diligence and luck, she Manuel L. Alonso was a journalist, a bookstore manager and managed to act for over ten years in three different countries many other things before being devoted exclusively to writing. without police ever suspecting that the solitary robber they were For years he travelled slowly to nearly everywhere, and sometimes looking for was a woman and not precisely a young woman like aimless and almost penniless. He has lived in almost all the her. Nevertheless, she has decided that this will be the last job Spanish regions, in major cities and coastal towns, mountains and before retiring permanently. However something will prevent islands. His children and young adult works have won several her from concentrating on the robbery, a problem that has been awards (Premio Altea, Premio Jaén, Premio Ala delta, Premio caused by herself: Virginia, her forced guest. Librerio, premio Protagonista Joven) and some of his titles have been translated or adapted for use by students of Spanish in Virginia is a girl that is suffering from bullying at school, whose various countries, from France to Scandinavia. parents are fighting lately due to the economic efforts they have to overcome to carry on with the bar they manage and a girl who one day decided that “life sucks” and decides to run away from home.
An accident on the road will make that lives of this to woman come across changing their destiny forever after. +14 Years Old PERISCOPIO
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 168 ISBN: 978-84-683-0831-9 SIZE: 20,5 X 13
niki zas y el retrete nuclear
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: Nikolas Zastuneda (Niki Zas) hates his cousin since early Gervasio Posadas was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and grew childhood when he overfeed his goldfish on purpose, and up in Spain, Russia and England. He has developed his career although they are already 15 years old! Unfortunately they are in the main advertising multinational agencies until; in 2007, he also classmates, so the war between them is been guaranteed for decided to give up on making up ads and devoted himself to years. literature, as a writer publishing her first adult comic fiction and as a teacher creating with her sister, a school of creative writing. He Trying to revenge from his cousin, Niki and his friends, a gang of currently leaves in Madrid. Well-known for being a journalist and outcast, blocked the toilets pipes of the school and this is how an adult comic fiction author, this is his first young adult book. We they ended discovering a teleportation machine hidden within do hope it would not be the last one. one of this mobile plastic cabin placed as provisional toilets on www.gervasioposadas.com the school playground. From there, they can travel wherever they want (to the teacher’s staffroom to steal the exams or to Niki’s cousin’s room to exchange a classwork dossier) or visit the most unusual places (Hollywood to meet Justin Biber): they only have to think of a place, while sitting on the bowl with their pants down and flush it. They only have five minutes, this is, the time that the tank takes to fill in again.
However, one day, the provisional toilets are removed and they have bathrooms again and this is how starts a crazy night race in the streets of Madrid with the aim of recovering the toilets. The problem is that they are not the only ones looking for such a mobile toilet: Niki’s cousin is also aware of the existence of this teletransportation machine… +14 PERISCOPIO Years Old
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 200 ISBN: 978-84-683-0813-5 SIZE: 20,5 X 13
el comendador de las sombras
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: “The first time I heard the name of the Commander of Shadows Carlos Fortea, doctor in German Studies by the Universidad was in a bibliographic citation. I was 23 years old by then; I had a Complutense de Madrid, is a literary translator with more than a modest job as a researcher at the University and, also, I had Silvia. hundred works published. He teaches in the Faculty of Translation I was interested in the documentation she handled- related to and Documentation at the prestigious University of Salamanca. my thesis about military orders- but much more in the eyes, lips and words of my thesis colleague. However, I could have never imagined that being a History detective or the fact of following the clue of a distant medieval past, would changed my real and contemporary world in such a way.”
A book that alternates present and past easily, and in a way that is able to explain us the fear of death brave warrior and live them as their own fear.
This book, with an extraordinary literary quality, is addressed for youngsters that love reading since the author, a well-known translator and author, uses a cultivated language and smart technicalities. +14 Years Old PERISCOPIO
BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 224 ISBN: 978-84-683-0805-0 SIZE: 20,5 X 13
el templo enterrado
SUMMARY: AUTHOR: The first murder took place in Mountwich, a town near José María Latorre was born in Zaragoza in 1945, but he Nottingham, although it is possible that the word “murder” is not currently lives in Barcelona and combines his two vocations appropriate for this case, or for those who followed him, because professionally: the cinema and literature. He is the general it was something much more sinister and frightening. The body coordinator of the magazine Dirigido por... (Directed by…), as well appeared completely bled, his face torned, and police found in the as the author of numerous essays and studies on the cinema. He dead’s bloodstained clothes some documents identifying him as a is equally productive as a writer. To date, he has published a great certain Christopher Hartfield, a professional fortune teller. many novels and tales for adults and young people. His works have also been awarded important prizes. Again we meet the veteran detective Saville and his partner, the archaeologist John Hadley, who we already met on UN SUDARIO DE HIEDRA & LOS OJOS EN EL ESPEJO, this time in a new terrifying mystery. +14 FANTASY Years Old
BINDING: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 321 SIZE: 21 x 14
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SGÁILE TAIBHSE (ESPECTRO) (APARICIÓN) ISBN: 978-84-683-0719-0 BRÌGH by Carolina Lozano (ESPÍRITU) www.estanahiaunquenolosveamos.com ISBN: 978-84-683-0312-3 ISBN: 978-84-236-8697-1
SUMMARY: WHAT IS NEW The city of Edinburgh is famous for many things, including Original Theme, intrigue dosed, powerful ghosts. Many arethose who have searched and those who believe to have found them. What fewknow is that they really characters, clear language andovercoming exist. Iliad, a girl from Barcelona with his friends Aithneand Keir, difficulties. This has everything according to its and discovered what is behind many mysteries and legends of editor. ghosts,and have learned to live with the apparitions. Although it is not easy, and yet it is much less when death hits close to them and the longing and the fear that a loved one has not entirely AUTHOR: abandoned force them to consider what would be best. Carolina Lozano was born in Barcelona in 1981, where she continues to live. She has a degree in Anthropological Biology When Christie, an old friend, Soren, a new friend, join your circle and works in the field of medical training. She has also devoted of friends, will be even more difficult to deal with both worlds of her time to Marine Biology and still studies in her free time. She the living and those who are gone. But they are not the only ones loves traveling. She has been involved in writing for the last half a that are not being entirely truthful. Christiehidden secrets to their decade and has published several novels. Taibhse, Brigh and now friends and also Soren told the whole truth. And ghosts,despite Sgàile are the result of two long trips to Scotland and many nights his obsessive nature and often frightening, neither will be safe. researching ghosts. Brigh speaks of friendship, loyalty and trust that often are as www.carolinalozano.com changeable as the perennial, but persistent fog in Scotland. For further information, please contact:
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