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 BINDING: SOFTCOVER NUMBER OF BOOKS:3 PAGES: 48 SIZE: 21 X 20 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.