A cada quien su casa (To each his own house)

Art: general interest (Children's/YA)

2013

A cada quien su casa (To each his own house)

by Chiara Carrer

This beautiful book full of images, textures and voices builds «the house / of always maybe never / of time». Chiara Carrer parts from the poetic definition of home, but a book full of narrative and memories is established right from the beginning. «I forgot / the place, when / and where / I forgot», a woman with pink hair and yellow hands decribes as part of the adventure that this unique book proposes.

Animales en el aire de papel (Paper's animals in the air)

Picture books

2008

Animales en el aire de papel (Paper's animals in the air)

by Manuel Marín

Paper is not a boring surface if the chicharreta, lilibela, or totoleta wait to be detached, folded and bent to reveal their tridimensional volume, their balance and dimension in space. They allow us to reflect on and understand the role they play in the artistic creation of space and shape. It’s an experience that brings us closer to the basic elements of modern art.

Antes no había nada, después comencé a imaginar mi propio jardín (There was nothing before. Then I began to imagine my own garden)

Poetry (Children's/YA)

2015

Antes no había nada, después comencé a imaginar mi propio jardín (There was nothing before. Then I began to imagine my own garden)

by Chiara Carrer

Collection of beloved things, of techniques, and various artistic instruments ( from naturalist and abstract illustration) with which Carrer brings various plants and trees to life. An open garden to every reader curious about shapes and colors, those who like to ponder, who want to know more about the.

Traditional stories (Children's/YA)

2008

Bestiario azteca (Aztec bestiary)

by Ianna Andréadis, Élisabeth Foch

Eagle, grasshopper, jaguar, butterfly, dog, monkey, feathered serpent, all these animals, real or mythological, tiny or majestic, carry a message. Forty works drawn with pen or brush have a dialogue with the texts of Elisabeth Foch, By taking us to a journey through the museums of Anthropology, the Templo Mayor in Mexico and the collections of the musée du quai Branly in Paris, this book takes us into the world of an ancient Mexico.

Picture storybooks

2009

Bichosos (Bugsful)

by Manuel Marín

This book is an allegory of flat strokes, whose slopes reveal tridimensional bugs, blissful to show us their transparent shapes. A reading that goes beyond the visual and takes us away from these tiny beings whose geometry increases before our eyes. The line takes us through their folds and extensions, and over to the pages which will be swarming with bugs!

Nature, the natural world (Children's/YA)

2008

Cactus (Cactus)

by Ianna Andréadis, Élisabeth Foch

Each of its forms, each spine, reveals a commitment to survive. They are therefore good company, as wise men, artists, and healers have long understood.

Cómo construir un volcán (How to create a volcano)

Children's & YA

2009

Cómo construir un volcán (How to create a volcano)

by Vicente Rojo, José Emilio Pacheco, Alberto Blanco, Bárbara Jacobs, Coral Bracho, José-Miguel Ullán

This work created from drawings of volcanoes by the artist, with the collaboration of the poems of Pacheco, Bracho, Blanco, Jacobs and Millán give us clues about how to build a volcano, ink and letters. Vicente Rojo's Volcanoes are descriptive forms, which contain a deep love for the artistic profession, and reveal an external structure that speaks of the infinite complexity of the universe. They are a creative effort to unravel the mystery of volcanoes. The use of descriptive and functional forms, characteristic of Vicente Rojo's work, allows establishing an interpretive parameter, which in poetry has been reflected in mysterious and evocative ways.

Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)

2015

Dientes (Teeth)

by Antonio Ortuño, Flavia Zorrrilla Dragol

After the accidental loss of a baby tooth, Natalia recounts the girl´s questions, what happens at home with her mother and her bunny Paz, with her father and his books, how she comes to find the skull and skeleton, and about Hugo, the big kid at school. It starts as something as small as a baby tooth and turns into something as large as the human body, the world... and the solution to what seems like child´s game, turns to be what matters the most.

El rapto de Eloisa (The abduction of Eloisa)

Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)

2014

El rapto de Eloisa (The abduction of Eloisa)

by Jorge Esquinca, Chiara Carrer

A girl and her mother, three crows, spikes on a field, and clouds draw the first scene. But the girl, like all children, expect her great adventure of being lost. The mistery kidnaps her. It leads her to an underground dream where the dream is reality and darkness is clear as a diamond light. Oneiric, musical story, opened to “what is heard inside”, this book invites us to discover that beyond the veil that is spread between the world and the things, “each sleeping seed, each root, each stem, every flower that rises,” and us, entirely.

La isla de los lagartos (The Island of the lizards)

Interactive & activity books & packs

2017

La isla de los lagartos (The Island of the lizards)

by Manuel Marín

Life seeks the most simple ways toward efficiency. In this case, these lizards are a cylinder with variations. The form translates into volume, which in its variations presents itself as Figures. Every figure has volume that has height, width, and length, all which interact together. Form, figure, volume, simplicity, variation, variables. The combination of all of this helps us to appreciate the beauty in animals’ bodies. 10 paper cut- out sculptures to assemble the lizards.

Educational: Art & design

Las cosas de Orozco siempre piensan de otra manera (Orozco’s Objects Always Think Otherwise)

by Manuel Marín, José Clemente Orozco

“José Clemente Orozco realized that objects and animals see us with other faces, and he drew the sensations produced by these gazes, as seen in his sketches in this book,” says Marín. Orozco paints objects, shows that they are useful artifacts for seeing things like sensations. They are rare, and their uses aren’t what they should be.

Los animales de El Bosco (The Animals of Hieronymus Bosch)

Art: general interest (Children's/YA)

2017

Los animales de El Bosco (The Animals of Hieronymus Bosch)

by Manuel Marín

The first artist to enter the realm of fantasy was Hieronymus Bosch. He revels in the delights of pleasure. He relishes eating giant fruits, running on water and flying on top of a fish. He is joyful without even realizing it. Bosch is also aware that serenity and calmness let things be seen as they are. No one before had ever seen our feelings as we get lost in the madness of invisible realities.

Pensar el espacio. Reflejos, superficies y colores (Thinking the space. Reflections, sufaces and colors)

Educational: Art & design

2018

Pensar el espacio. Reflejos, superficies y colores (Thinking the space. Reflections, sufaces and colors)

by Chiara Carrer

The line is the protagonist of this book. She explores the pages and forms figures, colors herself, creates landscapes, characters and, with them, stories that narrate the reflections and joys that creation brings. This book, the third in a growing collection, is a catalog of the possibilities that lie at the base of all art. In the blank pages of this book, lines, figures, shadows, textures, colors, unpublished worlds were born that, in their capricious forms, hide beings that reflect on everything visible, on everything that surrounds them and is the framework for their adventures, which are the adventures of creative thinking in all its simple splendor: space: line, movement, rhythm: seeing, looking, reading: imagining, thinking, doing. Here everything is created and everything is arranged for the creation of the reader, the artist.

Poetry (Children's/YA)

2017

Santo remedio (Miracle cure)

by Ernesto Lumbreras, Flavia Zorrilla Drago

Miracle Cure is a collection of poems that echo popular traditions. Riddled with humor, they play with language, with its twists and turns, its sounds, and with different ways of putting syllables in place. The authors created a lyrical recipe book for saving ogres, lost souls, skeletons and other creatures in danger of disappearing from the contemporary imagination..

Tortugas en el espacio de papel (Paper's turtules in the space)

Art: general interest (Children's/YA)

2013

Tortugas en el espacio de papel (Paper's turtules in the space)

by Manuel Marín

In this book the artist makes an essay about the different shapes of the turtles by going around space and folding the paper. Eight turtle sculptures made of paper and created by Manuel Marín shows us by constructing step by space each piece the basics of concave or convex since they can be assembled either from outside or inside.

Art: general interest (Children's/YA)

Títeres trashumantes (Transhumant puppets)

by Mario Martín del Campo, Silvia Eugenia Castillero

In the stretch of emptyness where no one dwells, changing beings are born as drops, as enigmas, as suspension points... They take a little bit of light and then steal shade from darkness. Thus these puppets grow strong, stealthy, and alive in the multiple sceneries of their theatre.

Un bestiario de la prehistoria (A bestiary of prehistory)

Art: general interest (Children's/YA)

October 2007

Un bestiario de la prehistoria (A bestiary of prehistory)

by Ianna Andréadis

“Imagine... these regions populated by mammoths, rhinos, lions, panthers, bears ... “ A bestiary of prehistory is a lesson about primitive fauna that invites us to know discover how an animal can be represented in many ways. It is a beautiful recreation of paintings made over thirty thousand years ago discovered inside several caves and caverns through Europe. This book offers a rich and fun approach to the reading of the image, and accounts for the necessity man have alwayshad to express and transcend through art.

Picture storybooks

2010

Un día… (One day…)

by Chiara Carrer

It could happen that one day, one word describes us, one image reflects an emotion, and one name tells us its story. That each thing, made up of different parts, wanders in a space of fragments, only to find us. One day, Isabel, Omar, Lola, and the others arrive, all eager to tell you their story.

Early learning / early learning concepts

October 2017

Una cabeza distinta (A different head)

by Luis Panini, Chiara Carrer

This child tells us that he is not happy with the head that he has. He thinks it is a wrong head. The parents, after listening to him, take him to a specialist, who agrees with the little one. A mysterious man dressed in black supplies him with heads in exchange for his own. The child tries several, until he finds the one he was looking for. A reindeer head, a crocodile head, a whisk head: the narrator child and protagonist of this story tells us about his disagreement with the head he has and the vicissitudes that he has to go through to find the head with which he will finally agree: the head of a grown man, of a mathematician. This is a story of search for identity and growth, developed with fine fantasy and humor, with the wisdom of someone he has sought and perhaps already found.

Picture books

2013

pica, no pica (ooh! ouch!)

by Jill Hartley

The charm of the image and the everyday surprise of a world to discover, with contrasts and similarities. This book reveals the primary impressions about things that burn, sting, irritate, or scratch, and its approximation to that which cuddles, tingles, pampers, sweetens, softens, or, like children would say, ooh, ouch!

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