Mamá llega tarde (Mum is late)
Plastilina Series
Text by Gabriela Keselman
Illustrations by Marcelo Elizalde
Softcover – 13 x 19,5 – 32 pages
Planeta have been including in their new collection Planetalector (Cometa +6) Mamá llega tarde (Mum is late), the first story belonging to a four-titles series whose main character is a young schoolmistress called Mary Clay.
She is funny and very imaginative and has strange powers: Mary Clay is able to make magic objects out of clay (she can make a clay plane and fly in it…) and she can solve, in a humorous way, the typical problems children face at school.
How to make Mum come soon, when she is late, without getting too sad ?
Pedagogical guide of the book in Planetalector’s web
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Gabriela Keselman is publishing in the First Readers’ collection of Ediciones SM, the 6th title of her series Morris, illustrated by Maximiliano Luchini.
Morris, regálame un amigo (Morris, give me a friend)
(120 x 190 – 54 pages)
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Zorris, the fox, Morris’ great enemy since Look out, Morris, asks Morris to give him a friend because he has none and Morris has many. But Morris and his gang will show him that friends cannot be given…
And very soon… ¡Hola, Morris! (Hi, Morris!), an original story + activities + games + recipes + stickers + sound chip…
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Text by Daniel Nesquens
Illustrations by María Titos
Hardback – 210 x 180 – 24 pages
Issued in French language by Rouergue
“My dad left on a boat. A Tuesday. He was in search of some mysterious and exotic birds.”
A little boy says good bye to his father at the port. The anchors are raised up, the gangway is released and he stays with her mom and her little sister, standing on the mole. All of them feel alone and sad. But the imagination of the kid wakes up. Where has gone his father? Which birds has he gone to find? Are they more valuable than him, his son?
Through a game in which dreams and illusions interfere with reality, Daniel Nesquens and María Titos invite us to visit the world of a child, who, to face yearning and nostalgia, reaches to put himself in the distant adventures of his father and to maintain, at the same time, his presence beside him, at home.
Issued in 2010 – All rights available except French language
PDF available in French and Spanish languages
Review of the French edition
Text by Jorge Argueta
Illustrations by Fernando Vilela
To be published by Groundwood in 2010
Hardback - 32 pages
Rice pudding is one of the most international and traditional desserts which exist. It is also a dish that is typically homemade and easy to make, whose preparation is within the reach of any child who can cook beneath the attentive supervision of an adult.
But above all, it is perhaps one of the dishes most characteristic of childhood, with its particular texture and its unmistakable aroma.
Arroz con leche (Rice pudding) is a cooking poem by the Salvadoran writer and poet Jorge Argueta, already an expert in this type of poetic exercise. With his magical words, it is nature itself which erupts in the kitchen, with its rivers, waterfalls, rainfalls, skies, clouds, rainbows, and stars… And to cook thereby becomes a true adventure…
Fernando Vilela chose a palette of happy though gentle colors for this book and an undulating line which gives his illustrations a sweetness very evocative of familial tenderness. Magic and reality are united in one of the artist’s most accomplished works.
There is no doubt that the aroma of cinnamon of this marvelous rice pudding, a true gift, will always remain in the memory of all those who share it.
Modified on July, 6, 2010
Illustrations by Maxi Luchini
Published by Ediciones SM
Paperback (120 x190 – 56 pages) – Hardback (170 x 220 – 184 pages with stickers & sound chip)
There once was a raccoon called Morris. He lived with his mother and father and with his little brother Rayujo. Morris went to school, he played, he slept… That is to say, he slept until someone woke him up halfway through his sleep, someone who was coming to ask him for help… So begin all the adventures of Morris, the most heroest of them all, the hero of the woods, of the field, of the river and of the whole wide world, a raccoon who can manage to get the strangest, most difficult and biggest things. But of course Morris needs his friends to help him and he also needs to get paid for his work in chocolates.
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Morris ¡quiero una pesadilla! (Morris, I want a nightmare!)
Morris can get the most difficult, strangest and biggest things; but at the moment he must help Lupino the wolf to get somenightmares. Morris is going to need the help of all his friends to make the most horrible, horriblest nightmare, so that Lupino can be as scary as he was before…(Paperback)
Selected by the Expert Panel of New Spanish Books in Germany
Review in New Spanish Books in the UK
Morris ¡es mi cumpleaños! (Morris, it’s my birthday!)
Bondi bear is not feeling very happy. He just does not know how to invite Maru bear to his party. But Morris will help Bondi, even if it means climbing up a tree, spying or asking his friends for help…(Paperback)
Morris, se me cayó una pluma (Morris, I’ve lost a feather!)
Picota birdie has lost a feather and without her feather Tejoncito Lopez won’t be bringing her any coins, and lots of them are chocolate coins! Will Morris be able to get his friends from the wood, to find the feather? Will Morris be the most hero of them all, the hero of the lost and found feathers? (Paperback)
Morris, una cosa me persigue (Morris, something is chasing me!)
Rayujo is being chased by something that looks like a monster, a little sheep and a soapy sponge! In exchange for a chocolate he has never tasted, Morris decides to help his little brother. Together with his friends, Morris discovers just what that thing, that strange thing, that monstrous, sheep like, soapy spongy thing is… and he will do his best to frighten it, catch it and stop it at all costs. (Paperback)
¡Cuidado, Morris! (Look out, Morris!)
A VERY special adventure, full of mystery, fun, games, jokes… and even real snores! Morris and his friends have to go to Zorris’ wood. Morris is going to participate in a competition of heroes to see who gets the golden mask. He gets into danger, but once again he saves the day… Book with a story + activities + games + stickers + sound chip. (Hardback)
Zorris, the fox, Morris’ great enemy in Look out, Morris, asks Morris to give him a friend because he has none and Morris has many. But Morris and his gang will show him that friends cannot be given… (Paperback)
Gabriela Keselman’s Interview in Pizca de Papel
Coming up soon:
¡Hola, Morris! (Hi, Morris!) Book with a story + games + activities + stickers – 170 x 180
Series published in Spanish language. Rights sold to Korea and Germany.
Text and illustrations by Philip Stanton
Published by Ediciones SM & Baula
Hardback – 200 x 250 – 48 pages
A six-titles series
Misha, the purple cat, just started first grade. She is a prankster with a hot temper and a quick tongue, but underneath the huff and puff a soft heart beats. This new series of 6 pre-school and up picture books follows Misha and her friends as they discover how to have fun facing everyday childhood problems and worries such as not wanting to be different, being scared of the dark, not wanting to go to school or to have a brother.
In Misha, award winning author and illustrator, Philip Stanton, has created a fun and colourful new character certain to provoke and delight.
¡No quiero ser violeta! (I don’t want to be purple!) Misha is sick of being purple. None of the other cats around her are purple… Misha wants to changer her colour…
Review in New Spanish Books in Germany
Es mío, ¡devuélvemelo! (It’s mine, give it back!) Misha is playing with one of her best friends, Lorenzo Lizzard, but after a short time, the fights start: “Me first. I run faster than you. I saw it before. It’s mine, give it me back!…”
¡Hoy no voy al cole! (I’m not going to school!) After her second day of school, Misha explains her parents she has already learned all she needs to know. School is boring, full of rude kids and bossy teachers and a prissy rabbit named Rachel who makes fun of Misha’s clothes…
¡No tengo sueño! (I’m not sleepy!) Even if it is almost 10 p.m., Misha does not want to go to bed. Between yawns she keeps saying she is not sleepy…
Issued in Spanish & Catalan languages. To be issued in Basque language.
Misha’s website (English & Spanish languages)
Misha’s blog (Spanish language)
Misha’s press review
Philip Stanton’s website (English & Spanish languages)
Interview about Misha the Purple Cat at BTV (Spanish and Catalan)
Text by Jorge Zentner Illustrations by Philip Stanton
Published by Macmillan
Hardback – 200 x 200 – 24 pages
Every day Chuf-Chuf, the little train, travels from Big City to Small Town. And each day he passes through the Great Desert. But he dreams of seeing the sea and making new friends. Will he be able to find a new route and make his dream come true?
A warm story, full of adventure, about making new friends and taking responsibilities for one’s actions.
Issued in Spanish & Catalan languages
Text by Judith Nuria Maida Illustrated by Fernando Vilela
Published by Editora Ática
Paperback – 330 x 230 – 40 pages
It is a book that combines scientific soundness and poetry to tell the children, in an accessible way, a story that has amazed humanity from thousands and thousands of years: the origin of the Universe. The book presents the Big Bang theory, which is a likely explanation about the beginning of the Universe, in a poetical language prepared for children.
Judith Nuria Maida was born in Patagonia, Argentina. Since she was little she has enjoyed writing poems and studing Astronomy – the science that unveils – among other amazing things. She is very interested in the arising of the Universe and the movement of heavenly bodies.
Fernando Vilela was born in Sao Paulo City, Brazil. He is an awarded author-illustrator with more than fifty books published by several important publishers in Brazil and abroad.
Issued in Portuguese language
Text by Ilan Brenman Illustrations by Fernando Vilela
Published by Companhia das Letras
Paperback – 230 x 230 – 48 pages
In Japan, origami has been part of people’s lives for a long time. Samurais used to apply this technique to develop motor coordination, blood circulation and the touch. And so did the famous warrior Massao Kazuo, also a master in the art of origami. His son, Mitio, enjoyed watching his father making the tsuru, an origami form that represents the crane, bird of health and richness. As a good observer, Mitio soon became an origami specialist. Until the day his father got sick and Mitio decided to make a thousand tsurus, in order to save Massao.
Ilan Brenman was born in Israel. He is the author of many books for young readers and has been published by several important Brazilian publishers.
Text by Stela Barbieri Illustrations by Fernando Vilela
Published by Escala Educacional Paperback – 180 x 200 – 48 pages
With a simple and friendly language, the book approaches the hunger and solidarity issue. It stimulates the reader to slip into the story, get involved by the issue, mostly due to the illustrations that value the plantations, the land cultivation and the “Feijoada” (Brazilian Bean Stew) made by the whole community.
At the end, the book presents the text “The Fight for the Dreams”, which explains the Collection Ways to Change the World, based on the 8 Millennium Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. The first one, “Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger”, has motivated The Girl and the Juicy Bean Stew.
Illustrations by Pep Montserrat
Tatín has wakened up with a crooked snout. His eyebrows have come together too much during the night. He couldn’t find his smile anywhere. He closed his fists and crossed his arms. Really tight. Like this!
Tatín has wakened up today really grumpy… So he starts silly fights with the rabbit, the duck and the mole. Afterwards, he blamed them of having started the quarrel. Finally, he meets up with the cat. The big battle is going to start. However, peace comes in unexpectedly and it tastes as chocolate.
In ¡Él empezó!, Gabriela Keselman and Pep Montserrat have been able to talk about the aggressiveness that we all may experience in some moments, and also of how conflicts can be solved through dialogue.
Issued in Spanish and Korean languages
Text by Javier Sobrino Illustrations by Noemí Villamuza
Published by Kókinos
Hardback – 32 pages – 252 x 312
I like living… with the wind blowing in my hair and your laugh near me. I like watching… the full moon at night and the sun setting. I like smelling… the perfume of the rose and the damp ground after the rain. I like listening… to the music that comes from their hands and to the crickets that sing in summer: cri-cri, cri-cri. I like eating… warm fritters and chocolate cakes. I like touching… the sand of the beach and my cat as it purrs. I like sleeping… curled up under the stars, my face near yours. I like dreaming… that yesterday I was an Indian in the prairie and that tomorrow I will be a pirate in the sea. I like playing… with my doll, my spinning top and, with a lance, conquer a castle. I like planting… a flower here, a tree there, no matter where. I like painting… colors in the air and toys in his hands. I like imagining… that blood does not stain the Earth and that we are all friends under the stars. I like listening… to this short story I have just told.
Review in Cuatrogatos (Spanish)
Best children’s books 2002
Text by Jorge Luján Illustrations by Mandana Sadat
Hardback – 300 x 220 – 32 pages
Oshi… who are you?
With these words Jorge Luján presents us two semi celestial, semi earthly creatures that are both beautifully naive and sweet. He uses a poetical dialogue where we are able to read between the lines and gather different meanings and messages.
Cosas con plumas is the story of two friends, told in five parts, who once they coincide in time, they start sharing their ideas, their feelings and their actions. They also question their existence, their being and their name, and they finally understand that in the end they will no longer be “beings” or “feathered things”, but instead they will be sweet memories or shooting stars.
The reader is able to let his or her imagination fly, traveling in a hot air balloon through a world full of deep meanings and surprises, as well as enjoying Mandana Sadat’s poetic illustrations.
Issued in Spanish language
Modified on Sept. 22, 2009
Text and illustrations by Nicolai Troshinsky
Hardback – 220 x 235 – 32 pages
There once was a man who was able to dream so well that he was capable of dreaming about anything he wanted. That man was my grandfather…
This is how the story begins. El domador de sueños, a book by Nicolai Troshinsky, offers us a clever story, where imagination is the main character and where anything is possible.
It is a pleasant read full of hope, beautifully illustrated in a combination of drawings, paintings and collage,and where dreams, in a way, come true.
The author-illustrator is a young Russian artist who studied in Madrid and Italy and is now collaborating with Spanish publishing companies.
Text by Antonio Ventura Illustrations by Leticia Ruifernández
Hardback – 245 x 275 – 32 pages
In a simple tender way, Antonio Ventura brings us close to Pablo, a boy who plays hopscotch at school and whose only wish is to get to the square which represents “heaven” so that he will be able to ask for his wish, that Marta, his friend from Art class, falls in love with him.
La Rayuela is a story that shows us the strength and innocence of young love. It shows us that we must not give up hope and that we should continue trying to get to “heaven” in order to achieve what we want in life.
The beautiful and classical illustrations by Leticia Ruifernández blend in perfectly with the text and the nostalgia it represents. This book can be a trip down memory lane for many adults and a beautiful story for children, where anything is possible.
Text & illustrations by Fernando Vilela
Published by Scipione
Paperback – 170 x 260 – 64 pages
The Boatman and the Canoeman narrates the getting together between a white boatman and a indigenous canoeman on the Amazon River. The canoeman is rescued by the boatman, from the small canoe which was about to sink. During their trip down the river, the two men tell their stories and adventures. Absent-minded, they do not realize the vessel was damaged and is also about to sink.
Text by Agatha Echevarría Illustrations by Philip Stanton
Published by Ediciones SM & Cruïlla
Hardback – 210 x 284 – 40 pages
During his last space flight, Yuri the astronaut saw that the Earth had sprung a leak. Meanwhile, in the heart of Africa, the tribal shaman lost most of the feathers of his headdress after dancing so much in order to make it rain. But the rain clouds were so small that they didn’t hear his song and couldn’t find the village. Bomaral, the son of the shaman, left the village and started a journey searching for the clouds that his father had failed to bring.
A creative book about the earth’s environment and what children can do to improve it.
Text by Jordi Sierra i Fabra Illustrations by Philip Stanton
Published by Destino
A charming country farmhouse is slowly surrounded by an ever encroaching city. Abandoned and decrepit, the house’s skyscrapers neighbours call for its demolition. Does everything old have to be torn down?
One day, a black limo parks in front, what will happen to the old house?
His author, Jordi Sierra i Fabra, is one of the Spanish most prolific and prize winning writer.
Philip Stanton, the illustrator, is a well-known American artist, living in Spain, winner of the prestigious Destino infantil Apel.les Mestres Award for children’s picture books.
Issued in Spanish and Catalan languages
Text by Emili Teixidor Illustrations by Philip Stanton
Published by Destino & Planeta Oxford
Ring 1-2-3 y el mundo nuevo is the story of the arrival of a new child into an old, worn-out world. The newborn looks at the world and does not like what he sees. Noisy gray cars, gray buildings in flames, gray boats, gray wars and gray pollution… This baby decides to use his imagination to change his name and much more. He invents a whole new world that better suits him: a new world filled with colours and friendship with everything he wants to see and experience.
This delightful 32-pages picture book deals with surprising themes. It conveys positive sensations using colourful illustrations with references to modern issues, and friendly texts brimming with humour and creativity.
Stanton’s illustrations forcefully project the positive development of the storyline: an old world built by grown-ups and based on wars, weapons and towers in flames is replaced by the colourful creation of an invented planet. A place where imagination enables each of its lucky inhabitants to share happiness and good intentions.
Video Presentation Ring 1-2-3
Review in El Mundo
Ring 1-2-3 in S.O.L. (Servicio de Orientación a la Lectura)
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