(almost) wordless story by Imapla

Board book – 155 x 210 – 24 pages (and flap)

Issued by Océano-Travesía

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The law of the sea is clear: the big fish eats the small fish, usurping power. There will always be big and small fishes.

However, law may also be other, when all fishes join their forces…  Then, who is the real King of the Sea?

New project (text and Ilustration) by Imapla

(Spanish language)

Hardback – 200 x 280 – 24 pages

Estanislau Zamori loves clouds and he lives in them.

He paints the clouds of colours and plays with them, until his teacher appears with her huge black cloud.

His dad one day got himself into a black cloud, and ended as a me-teo-ro-lo-gist… now there is not cloud in the sky that resists him.

This is a tender story about reality, dreams and the strong relationship between father and son.

“Today is Friday, there are some clouds.

I like Fridays.

On Fridays my dad walks me to school.

I kiss him and I get into the classroom.

The clouds follow me.”

New Spanish language project by Imapla

(Spanish language or wordless books)

Board books – 140 x 140 – 18 pages

Imapla breaks all conventions by proposing a new series of small and original books, called “Pixel”, where she plays with animals, numbers… sounds, with our imagination and obviously with pixels.

SMALL OR BIG
How small or how big can something be? A journey that goes from microcosm to macrocosm…

A DIFFERENT FARM
In this nice farm, when the Rooster sleeps, the animals dance… have fun and transform themselves…

SQUARE KISS
How many trips must take the square kiss of a frog so that it can turn into Prince Charming?

123456789 ANIMALS
A new, fun and creative way of counting to infinity…

Spanish language project by Imapla

Board book – 140 x 140 – 18 pages

With a little bit of imagination, we may see things in many different ways and really have fun…

Imapla shows us through this story how objects are often not what they seem…

New Project (Text and illustrations) by Imapla

(Spanish Language)

Hardback – 210 x 275 – 24 pages

We all have inside of us some wolves and sometimes we should let them howl…

Inspired on the crying of a clown, Imapla has created this touching story, where a child unburden himself, letting out the wolf that he had inside.

“When Charlie was born,

he had sadness on his lips.

When Charlie was born he did not cry.

Nobody knew why Charlie was so sad.

But he was sad.

Charlie had a little wolf inside of him

who tried to come out every time he spoke.”

Text and illustrations by Imapla

Published by Ediciones SM

Hardback – 267 x 225 – 32 pages

A tale told through simple and graphic images and a few onomatopoeic expressions.

At the beginning, there were only trees and silence. Birds came and began to sing. But the world is changing and the birds have to learn new languages: the language of the woodcutter’s saw, the language of the trees falling down, the language of the sirens and all the new city languages…

An apparently very simple story to read out loud, to have fun, imitating all the city noises but also to make us think about the changes of our environment.

SM Foundation International Illustration Award 2007

Text by Eusebio Delfin

Illustrations by Imapla

Published by Ekaré

Hardback – 170 x 126 – 32 pages

This book takes the lyrics of the eponym Cuban bolero written by Eusebio Delfin and performed by the Buenavista Social Club, among other groups. “Y tú ¿qué has hecho?” narrates the beautiful story of a girl and a tree/lover, a story about love and what finally remains when love is gone. “I’ll keep forever your beloved name and you, what have you done with my poor flower?”

A beautiful edition of a leporello folded book, suggesting an accordion made of flowing images and words. A book for children and adults, for poetry and life lovers.

Special Mention at the Junceda Awards

Text and illustrations by Imapla

Published by Serres (RBA)

Hardback – 248 x 185 – 32 pages

This is the story of a mother, like many others…

This is the story of a mother who is asking every morning to his 4 years old son, Peter, if she has turn into a trash can or a shelf… Or if she is a closet or a hanger?

But this is above all the story of Peter who has to turn himself every morning in a swordfish as all his classmates… and Peter thinks that his mother is neither a trash can, nor a hanger… But she seems to have so many arms… Maybe she is an octopus! And Peter likes octopus’ hugs!

Issued in Spanish and Catalan languages

Review in Pizca de papel (Spanish)