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SO CLOSENatalia Colombo

36 pages | 20 x 20 cm | Prz. 12 ¤

ISBN: 978-84-8464-681-5

With simplicity of substance and form, The winning entry of the 1st InternationalCompostela Prize for Picture Books is a contemporary fable about isolation, apoetic reflection on people and their emotions.2nd DELLE PALME PICTURE BOOKS AWARD ITALY 2009NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)READING RECOMMENDATION (Brazil FNLIJ Award) - 2011

MUMMariana Ruiz Johnson

32 pages | 18,5 x 25,5 cm | Prz. 16 ¤

ISBN: 978-84-8464-843-7

Maternity is seen across poetry and art, tenderness and chromatic exuberance. A universalsong about love and life in all its extension, from the human being and the creatures thatsurround us, up to the Mother Earth.

A BIG DREAMFelipe Ugalde

36 pages | 27 x 21 cm | Prz. 15 ¤

ISBN: 978-84-8464-684-6

The winning picture book of the 2nd International Compostela Prize is aliterary gem, a micro-tale of technical perfection, accessible to readers of all ages. There are phosphorescent elements on the cover.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)JUUL AWARD (IKASTOLAS OF NAVARRA)READING RECOMMENDATION (Brazil FNLIJ Award) - 2011 3

THE C FAMILYPep Bruno / Mariona Cabassa

32 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 13 ¤

ISBN: 978-84-8464-744-7

The 3rd Compostela International Prize for Picture Books takesus to the one and only circus show with a very particular family. A veryimaginative book that joins reality and fiction. Acrobats, tamers,jugglers, clowns... the greyest day will become the most colourfulstaying with them!NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

LITTLE CAT AND THE SNOWJoel Franz Rosell / Constance v. Kitzing32 pages | 23 x 16 cm | Prz. 11 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-808-6

White as snow, black as coal. The friendship between Little Catand Rabbit is the paradigm of the integration of two species that,the same as the persons, can be both equal and different.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

LITTLE CAT AND THE HOLIDAYSJoel Franz Rosell / Constance v. Kitzing32 pages | 23 x 16 cm | Prz. 11 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-948-9

Different types of families and social situations are representedin thispicture book, with the focus on the summer, the beach,the mountains andholidays in general and on another way ofenjoying our leisure time.

LITTLE CAT AND THE BALLJoel Franz Rosell / Constance v. Kitzing32 pages | 23 x 16 cm | Prz. 11 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-791-1

Playing alone or in a team? How many shared emotions Little Catwas missing before meeting Duck, Squirrel, Rabbit and Hedgehog.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

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Inside the eggshell, Arthur feels safe, but uncomfortable. His room has become too much small for him, until he discovers that the egg is a very tiny part of a big and unknown world.PROGRAMM NATI PER LEGGERE (ITALY)

ARTHUROli / Marc Taeger26 pages | 19 x 19 cm | P.V.P. 10 ¤ISBN: 978-84-15250-14-2

Hard boarded pages, attractive design and reduced size for first readers. We go with the lovely Renato across the forest, enjoying his adventures. The characters of this book go over the paper to the wardrobe changed into comfortable pyjamas for children by Casa K.

RENATOManolo Hidalgo26 pages | 20 x 20 cm | P.V.P. 10 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-838-3

Picture books make us be happy. Less television, morereading and adventures. This is a round story for enjo-ying with its rhymes, drawings and jokes. Specially recommended for very small children.

MR. ANDERSONAna Fernández-Abascal / Flavio Morais16 pages | 17,5 x 22 cm | P.V.P. 10 ¤ISBN: 978-84-15250-13-5

Seen from a distance, all creepy-crawlies look alike.But, if you take a closer look, you'll find that...

WHOSE IS THAT CREEPY-CRAWLYCarmen Queralt16 pages | 17,5 x 22 cm | P.V.P. 10 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-901-4

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THE SHY FLY’S HOUSEAdapt. Eva Mejuto / Sergio Mora40 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 13 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-695-2

A Russian popular tale.At the shy fly's house, there is a blackberry cake, seven plates, seven chairs, seven animals ready to have an afternoon snack. There's no room for anyone else... but then someone knocks at the door.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

THE LITTLE RED HENAdapt. Pilar Martínez / Marco Somà36 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-810-9

A popular tale.She found some grains of wheat, she planted them, she cut the wheat, she went to the mill, she baked the bread... But neither the dog nor the cat nor the duck helped her to do all that work, they were so idle and lazy.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

THE LITTLE WHITE RABBITAdapt. Xosé Ballesteros / Óscar Villán32 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-678-5

A Portuguese folk tale.A little rabbit gets one over on the big guy.An amusing invitation to wordplay.NATIONAL ILLUSTRATION AWARD 1999 NATIONAL READING PLAN (SEP MÉXICO) - 2002UN LIBRO PER L’AMBIENTE AWARD (ITALY) - 2010 NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)PROGRAMM NATI PER LEGGERE (ITALY)

THE THREE BILLY GOATSAdapt. Olalla González / Federico Fernández40 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-92608-39-3

Popular tale. This is what happened to three billy goats -a big billy goat,a medium-sized billy goat, and a little billy goat- when theywanted to cross a bridge for eating some juicy green grass onthe other side of the river and met a terrible ogre just there.NATIONAL READING PLAN (SEP MÉXICO) - 2007NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)PROGRAMM NATI PER LEGGERE (ITALY)

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THE TOP AND THE BOTTOMPaloma Valdivia

36 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-750-8

Where would you like to live in, on the top or on the bottom? This is a simple and original story to be read upright or upside down.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

LITTLE SHEEP, LITTLE SHEEPIsabel Minhós Martins / Yara Kono32 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-754-6

I International Compostela Prize for Picture Books honourable mention.We need to wear scarf, tights, gloves and cap to be well wrapped upthis winter. With the wool of this lovely sheep we'll get protectedfrom coldness.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)PROGRAMM NATI PER LEGGERE (ITALY)

Amelia’s quirks are in perfect harmony with her cunning. If thegrown-ups say 'no', what better strategy than to ask for theimpossible? A tale of unconventional, child-proof pets.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

AMELIA WANTS A DOGTim Bowley / André Neves36 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 13 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-680-8

A piece of cloth never had so many uses. The imagination can turnthe most insignificant object into the most wonderful toy.NATIONAL READING PLAN (SEP MÉXICO) - 2006NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

A DIFFERENT PRESENTMarta Azcona / Rosa Osuna40 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-683-9

Cherry eyes, peach skin, a strawberry nose... This is a mysteriousjourney for an explorer spider. A visual and poetic approach to thegeography of the human body.XOSÉ NEIRA VILAS CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE (V EDITION PRICE AGE) - 2009NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

THE SPIDER AND MEFran Alonso / Manuel G. Vicente48 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-518-4

Mara is special. Nothing or nobody will be able to put her downsince her mother has given her the key to rise above any type ofcriticism: self-esteem, imagination and spontaneity.IV CITTA’ DI BELLA NATIONAL AWARD ITALY 2008. FINALIST NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

BUTTERFLY EARSLuisa Aguilar / André Neves32 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-709-6

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ANTONI GAUDÍDàlia Adillon Marsó36 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-924-3

This is a short illustrated biography on the life and work of the greatModernist architect, who found his inspiration in nature. A bookwhich, in the same way as a tourist guide, invites us to visit his mostsymbolic buildings in the city of Barcelona.

JAMIE PLANTED AN ACORNTim Bowley / Inés Vilpi48 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-775-1

Jamie planted an acorn, but before it could grow...Only a few accorns grow into trees.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

THE BEGINNINGPaula Carballeira / Sonja Danowski36 pages | 22 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-780-5

Despite the cruel and devastating effects of a war, this poetic storyis a message of hope. It's told from childhood and takes us to where bombs explode with every attention to detail.

DANCING IN THE CLOUDSVanina Starkoff

48 pages | 22 x 30 cm | Prz. 15 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-745-4

Finalist of the 3rd International Compostela Prize for picture books.With this book, finalist of the 3rd Compostela International Prize, we'll realize that dreams can become true, even the remotest ones. While we chase after them, we can learn about multiculturalism and social coexistence, surrounded by so much colour, based on Latin American folklore.NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

A TASTE OF THE MOONMichael Grejniec

36 pages | 19,5 x 29 cm | Prz. 15 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-746-1

A book so magic and delicious as the full moon. The animals that live in the jungle show us how the things we share always taste much better.NATIONAL READING PLAN (SEP MÉXICO) - 2004NATIONAL READING PLAN (PNL PORTUGAL)

LISBOADavid Pintor

64 pages | 24,3 x 16,5 cm | Prz. 15 ¤ISBN: 978-989-749-012-5

Paved streets, friendly squares, colourful drying places and tiles, water and light, so typical of this city… Down to the last detail, this book shows Lisboa with an original point of view, full of symbolic elementsthat follow its visitors while they go for a walk both along emblematic and unknown places.

BARCELONADavid Pintor

64 pages | 24,3 x 16,5 cm | Prz. 15 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-956-4

The mark of Gaudí on the city's architecture, its cafés and its squares... Adifferent kind of illustrated guidebook to Barcelona, surrounded by seagullsand with the presenceof the sea on every page.

COMPOSTELADavid Pintor

64 pages | 24,3 x 16,5 cm | Prz. 15 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-751-5

A visual route all along the most emblematic, modern and historical places of Santiago de Compostela, a fascinating city that invites people to return there. With a look full of fantasy, this trip book will show the other magic and evocative face of its landscape.

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THE RED LADDERFernando Pérez Hernando36 pages | 20 x 20 cm | Prz. 12 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-951-9

A fun book for early readers about trusting in ourselves to achieve our goals. With vibrant, figurative images and simple storyline.

NESTSPepe Márquez / Natalia Colombo40 pages | 20 x 20 cm | Prz. 12 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-812-5

Big, small, approachable, hidden, original or simple nets… thesefunny birds live in different places. So different and similar at thesame time, birds raise our curiosity and admiration.

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WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?Arianna Papini

40 pages | 30 x 22 cm | Prz. 14 ¤ISBN: 978-84-8464-772-0

Finalist of 4th nternational Compostela Prize for picture books.Fish, owl, crocodile? Wild or tame, all of them want to be other different animals, in this linked and round story about the power of imagination.

A big dream, 3A different present, 6Amelia wants a dog, 6Antoni Gaudí, 6Arthur, 4A taste of the moon, 7

Barcelona, 7Butterfly ears, 6

Compostela, 7

Dancing in the clouds, 7

Jamie planted an acorn, 6

Lisboa, 7Little cat and the ball, 4little cat and the holidays, 4Little cat and the snow, 4Little sheep, little sheep, 6

Mr. Anderson, 4Mum, 3

Nests, 7

Renato, 4

So close, 3

The beginning, 6The C Family, 3The little red hen, 5The little white rabbit, 5The red ladder, 7The shy fly’s house, 5The spider and me, 6The three billy goats, 5The top and the bottom, 6

What would you like to be?, 7Whose is that Creepy-Crawly, 4

Adillon Marsó, Dàlia, 6Aguilar, Luisa, 6Alonso, Fran, 6Azcona, Marta, 6

Ballesteros, Xosé, 5Bowley, Tim, 6Bruno, Pep, 3

Cabassa, Mariona, 3Carballeira, Paula, 6Colombo, Natalia, 3, 7

Danowski, Sonja, 6

Fernández, Federico, 5Fernández-Abascal, Ana, 4

González, Olalla, 5G. Vicente, Manuel, 6Grejniec, Michael, 7

Hidalgo, 4

Kono, Yara, 6

Márquez, Pepe, 7Martínez, Pilar, 5Mejuto, Eva, 5Minhós, Isabel, 6Mora, Sergio, 5Morais, Flavio, 4

Neves, André, 6

Oli, 4Osuna, Rosa, 6

Papini, Arianna, 7Pérez Hernando, Fernando, 7Pintor, David, 7

Queralt, Carmen, 4

Rosell, Joel Franz, 4Ruiz Johnson, Mariana, 3

Somà, Marco, 5Starkoff, Vanina, 7

Taeger, Marc, 4

Ugalde, Felipe, 3

Valdivia, Paloma, 6Villán, Óscar, 5Vilpi, Inés, 6v. Kitzing, Constance, 4

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