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El cuento del carpintero
A pacifist fable that reminds us how important is to do a good job. Fermín is the all-knowing and traditional carpenter, so much so that the day when the Baron von Bombus loses an arm in battle, the Doctor, the Baroness, the Minister and the Cardinal do not hesitate to come to him to make a new wooden...[
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(posted on 2011-10-30)
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Premio Euskadi de Literatura Infantil en Castellano
Premio Libro Kirico 2011
Antonino Contra el Tiempo
Antonino is extremely little, nonetheless he is the strongest explorer, mountain climber, adventurer you can imagine. In his first adventure in the woods, he will meet Bear, a huge animal, who will become his best friend the day Antonino saves him from a trap Bear has fallen into. In order to save him,...[
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(posted on 2011-09-12)
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White Ravens
82 ojos y un deseo
A tale on friendship and wishes. Once upon a time, a boy, a rabbit and a bird set off each on their own for the neighboring to ask it to fulfill its wishes. Each is lonely and is searching for a friend. As everyone knows, mountains spend their time sleeping with their 82 eyes shut and only wake up every...[
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(posted on 2011-09-08)
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CJ Picture Books Award
El Leon Mandon
In the African savanah, lived a bossy lion who was only happy when ordering around the rest of the animals. He created a multitude of laws to regiment their lives and limit their speed limits, what they could do at night, where and how they bathed...until one day he ordered all zebras to be painted pink...[
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(posted on 2011-06-29)
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Illustration West 51 exhibition
Fish & Vega
Though we love a juicy steak or nice lamb rack, we would like to limit our meat-eating to three times a week. But what to eat the rest of the days? Here you have your inspiration: 2 times a week a vegetarian meal and 2 times a week a recipe for fish. Collected from friends and family, illustrated by...[
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(posted on 2011-06-27)
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Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
De pie o de cabeza
From above or from below? A sweet story on perspective.
(posted on 2011-06-23)
Awards
White Ravens
Candombe
Candombe or Carnaval fever is a description of the different steps of a group of tam tam players in a Carnaval procession in a small town. Hundreds of citizens drop their activities to join them, to dance and celebrate for the whole time of the Carnaval. This book goes over a very important tradition...[
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(posted on 2011-03-15)
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Argentinean Children's Book Association
El mar y otras cosas de las que también me acuerdo
Don Jaime is a man of little words. When he takes his grand-daughter for a walk by the beach, he barely talks. Nonethelesse, it is him that teaches her how to read from the boards by the sand, it is him that teaches her how to paint sea stars. As time goes by, the little girl talks more and her grandfather...[
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(posted on 2011-02-23)
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CJ Picture Books Award
Agapita, Berenguer y Wenceslao: ¿De qué reís?
Berenguer and Agapita are brother and sister, and Wenceslau is their friend coming from the space. He is a tiny little robot who visits them and loves to ask many questions to prepare reports on the humans. This time his report is about laughing: when do humans laugh? Agapita and Berenguer try to show...[
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(posted on 2010-11-08)
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CJ Picture Books Award
Broodtrommelboek
A creative lunch box full of ideas to send your children to school well prepared! --the perfect healthy snack; --but also a special note to wish ‘good luck!’ on a test day --the loved chocolate surprise for after the swimming lessons. --You could also get creative by, for example, making that...[
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(posted on 2010-11-06)
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Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
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Soepkalender
Stylist and soup fanatic Anya van de Wetering asked family and friends about their favorite recipe for soup. Creative and multi-talented as she is, she added beautiful collages, photographs and illustrations to some great homey recipes recipes. This calendar contains 365 recipes for soup, so you can...[
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(posted on 2010-10-29)
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Dutch Booksellers Organization
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Zelfgeoogst!
Even without a big garden you are able to grow your own vegetables using our revolutionary gardening-in-a-box-method. A few boxes, potting soil, and seeds are all you need. Besides a giant-harvest, this book also gives you colorful, simple yet super tasty recipes. So, get ready to get your hands dirty!...[
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(posted on 2010-10-29)
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Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Toet-en Taartkalender
365+1 recipes for desserts and pies. From simple yoghurt to exquisite desserts, you can rely on the Desserts Calendar to make each and every day a party. The Desserts Calendar is the successor of our successful Soup Calendar. This Sweet Calendar (without year) is yet again another personal binding of...[
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(posted on 2010-10-29)
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Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
This well-known folk poem from the 17th century is a form of trick verse. Included in classic anthologies of children’s poetry, the verse appears nonsensical at first sight, but given a break in the middle of each line, begins to make perfect sense. At the simplest level, it is a lesson on grammar...[
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(posted on 2010-10-15)
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Brazil's Prêmio Biblioteca Nacional (National Library Award)
Las Tres Ninas
Nobody remembers how long the three girls have been living in the old house. Alicia looks at the empty swimming pool from the window, Andrea tells a story, Clara cares for her dolls. Time passes.
(posted on 2010-09-10)
Awards
CJ Picture Books Award
Bombástica Naturalis
In this book the great scientist Bombastus Dulcimer gathers some of his inventions like the famous pear balloon or the olea bellica, i.e. an olive shotgun able to shoot once a year, when the olives are ripe. Whenever Bombastus and his inventions pass by, disorder and fun arise, and even the quiet life...[
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(posted on 2010-08-23)
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CJ Picture Books Award
Bibiana
Premio Euskadi
Fabulas Morales de Una Vez Para Siempre
This beautiful title counts more than 20 modern tales and fables, that have the bite and surprises of more famous ones like those of the Grimm brothers. Short and concise, each tale is around 2 page long with an additional page of illustrations.
(posted on 2010-05-17)
Awards
White Ravens
Premios Visual
Pantuflas de Perrito
A collection of poems inspired by anecdotes sent over the Internet by 12 South American children about their pets. A lively and original project! Rights available: Dutch and Portuguese only.
(posted on 2009-09-30)
Awards
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Papa Oso
Ana is a little girl like every other little girl and has a normal life until her dad changes job and behaving like a bear. Ana\'s mom explains to her that it is due to \"Mister Stress\". Ana decides to investigate who this Mister Stress might be. A colorful story to help children understand their parents...[
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(posted on 2009-08-20)
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Libro Kirico
EL Barranco
Five orphans. Their parents died when the coach they were travelling on fell down a cliff when they were coming home from the Indic ocean. One of the children, Benito, is missing. He said he would go to the cliff to find his father’s watch because he was buried without it. The other four children go...[
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(posted on 2009-04-07)
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White Ravens
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Con la Cabeza en las Nubes
What do you see in that cloud? This book recreates an antique game of humanity: to look in the sky for the world´s reflection, to search the clouds for a representation. In this collective work, illustrators from all over the world have included photos of clouds, and thus, each one reflects a special...[
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(posted on 2009-03-03)
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White Ravens
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Papá Tatuado
“Dad comes and goes. Like day and night”. Dad is never home, but when he is he tells his son fantastic tales, all contained in the tattoos drawn all over his body. These are tales of adventure, where dad has to fight against a two-tailed tiger, gigantic birds, never ending anacondas, hungry spiders....[
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(posted on 2009-03-03)
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White Ravens
Premi Junceda
Premios Visual
El señor G.
Mister G. lives in a small village in the middle of the desert, where there’s very little water and no sound at all. Mister G. gets tired of the silence and decides to go to town to solve this situation. He gets back with a seed. Mister G.’s neighbours, who thought he was a quiet and nice person,...[
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(posted on 2009-03-03)
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Los Mejores del Banco del Libro
Do!
This unique picture book for young children is painted by artists of the Warli tribe, who live in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The Warli people paint the mud walls of their homes with white chalk or pigment, showing wonderfully detailed scenes of everyday life in the village. There are special...[
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(posted on 2008-11-17)
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Bologna Ragazzi
Un Libro en Tamano Real
Everything in this book is photographed in its actual size. But also, in this book, the size of things is learned through comparison. A teaspoonful of honey is small, but how many flowers does the bee need to visit to make a teaspoonful of honey? How long does it take the snail to travel 25 centimeters?...[
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(posted on 2008-03-14)
Awards
Argentinean Publishing Committee (CAP)
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Mi Papa Estuvo en la Selva
The story of a trip to the Amazon jungle in Ecuator told with the voice of a small child. The habits of the people in the jungle marvel this city child who tries to imitate them with his friends in the city. In a story with humor, readers enter the everyday life of the people in the jungle and listen...[
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(posted on 2008-03-12)
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White Ravens
La Reina Mab
Poem of the act I of \"Romeo and Juliet\" by William Shakespeare. The carpenter squirrel and the old weevil narrate in detail the construction of Queen Mab´s carriage with long spider legs, cricket bones, and moon beams. When the carriage is ready, the fly—Queen Mab´s coachman—speaks. His story...[
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(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean Publishing Committee (CAP)
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Que crees Tu que Puedes Hacer en mi Circo?
What do you think you can do in my circus? Asked the impatient and grouchy owner.sked the impatient and grouchy owner. • Imitating birds – answered Joaquín. The circus owner laughed, thinking he was in front of a regular impersonator. He could not imagine how far Joaquín was able to take the...[
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(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Cancion Decidida
Morning, afternoon, evening, or night? Something as important as a love declaration, can it be done any time of the day? Album book, ALIJA 2004 Selected by the Nacional Plan for Reading, Argentine.
(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Lo que Hay Antes de que Haya algo
A boy confronts beings coming from the dark place where there was a roof before, and where now—a now defined by the voice of the parents saying “good night” and switching the lights off—there is nothing. The characters are defined but mute. Until a creature without shape, but able to speak arrives....[
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(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Argentinean Publishing Committee (CAP)
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Tump Tump
In the children´s room there is nothing but toys. A persistent throbbing gives away the secret heart of things. Selected by the Nacional Plan for Reading, Argentine.
(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean National Plan for Reading (ALIJA)
El Paraiso Viviente
The mysterious power of ripe fruit. Animals taste it and cannot stop dancing. Even lions forget to attack! Paradise has gone into their bodies. Best Edited Book, children category, Argentine Chamber of Publications, 2004.
(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean Publishing Committee (CAP)
Restoran
The restaurant fly: a species that draws the attention of biologists. Its low flight over the surface of soup bowls. Nothing to stop it? A truth revealed, at Bianki´s restaurant. Selected, Catalogue White Ravens 2005. International Selection of Infantile and Youthful Literature (Munich).
(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
White Ravens
Humor Idiota
Humor is an exercise for intellectual dexterity. In the hands of Cachimba it becomes the opposite. So that everybody can laugh as well as silly people do, this selection of comic strips, published originally in 1998, in Perfil, a daily newspaper no longer published. Plus other treats for the occasion. Book...[
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(posted on 2007-11-19)
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Argentinean Children's Book Association
Un Hombre con Sombrero
Ease seems to go with these drawings: his virtuosity resides in this humility. To assemble beings with nothing: a few lines, and the hat. Stories which start with trivia plunge us into bewilderment. Selected by Nacional Plan for reading (SEP), México. Gustavo Roldán (h) Since 1985, he writes and...[
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(posted on 2007-11-19)
Awards
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Chubasco
A succinct story with evocative images about a character who confronts a rain storm while building his own boat. Disproportional effort? When the rain stops the character will wake up in a new territory.
(posted on 2007-11-16)
Awards
Argentinean Children's Book Association
Circle of Fate--Screenprinted Version
A silk-printed version. Garuda the divine eagle of the God Vishnu, sees Lord Death hastening towards an exquisite little bird. he does not want it to die and decides to save it. But can Death be held at bay? The Circle of Fate, a parable of destiny and love, gently mocks at our desire to control the...[
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(posted on 2007-11-05)
Awards
Anderson Prize
Toto y Rey
Toto goes fishing in a northern morning. Times goes by and he waits. A good fisherman, an excellent day.
(posted on 2007-10-06)
Awards
Argentinean Publishing Committee (CAP)
Cierra los Ojos
A beautiful book on two brothers who see life differently. A wonderful approach to a handicap and blindness.
(posted on 2007-10-03)
Awards
Les Incorruptibles
The Sacred Banana Leaf
Follow Kanchil\'s new adventures in the Indonesian forest! As Kanchil the mouse dear is returning from market eating some delicious rice cakes, he trips and falls into a large pit. Unable to get out on his own, he sets up a ploy that will save him and abuse the other animals that will meet his path (and...[
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(posted on 2007-03-19)
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Les Incorruptibles
IBBY / FNILIJ
page 5
Cuentos Pulga
Welcome to the most spectacular show of the world: the circus! Tales of serated knives, flying hunam canon, tightrope dancers, contortionists, clowns...you will find them all in this delightful album high in colors!
(posted on 2006-10-24)
Awards
White Ravens
Elephants Never Forget
A baby elephant is lost and alone in the forest when a herd of buffaloes comes along and taken him into their fold. So what is he now – elephant or buffalo? Inspired by a true story, this is a joyous tale in verse that touches lightly on the themes of loss, adoption and integration. Illustrated...[
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(posted on 2006-05-28)
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IBBY
Mangoes and Bananas
Monyet the monkey and his friend, Kanchil the mouse deer, plant a garden and look forward to the fruit. When they are finally ripe and ready, Monyet climbs up the trees to pick them. But once he is up there, Monyet begins to eat the fruit all by himself… This re-telling of an Indonesian trickster tale...[
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(posted on 2005-04-20)
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White Ravens
IBBY / FNILIJ
That's How I see Things
A series of paintings of weird animals - half cow-half fish, half rooster, half crocodile. It would show the animals separately at first, and then ask, what would happen if they became one animal? What kind of sound would this weird creature make? What would its behaviour be like?
(posted on 2004-11-26)
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IBBY
Night Life of Trees
The Life of Trees is a fine example of Gond art from central India.Trees are fundamental to the Gond imagination, since the Gonds were until recenty forest dwellers. Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai and Ram Singh Urveti Intricately drawn visions of trees fill the pages of this sumptuous book of art and folklore...[
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(posted on 2004-11-22)
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IBBY
Bologna Ragazzi
Circle of Fate, The
Garuda the divine eagle of the God Vishnu, sees Lord Death hastening towards an exquisite little bird. he does not want it to die and decides to save it. But can Death be held at bay? The Circle of Fate, a parable of destiny and love, gently mocks at our desire to control the future. Illustrated in...[
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(posted on 2004-11-22)
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Anderson Prize
London Jungle Book
This project has been conceived by Bhajju Shyam, a brilliant tribal artist from the Gond community in central India. A few years ago, he was called to London, to paint murals in a restaurant. He found the citys mores and manners quaint and curious. He went on to compress his impressions, ideas, and...[
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(posted on 2004-04-21)
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Les Incorruptibles
One, Two, Tree
This stunning number book for young children has art by Durga Bai, a brilliant woman tribal artist from the Gond tradition of central India. The absurdly charming tale in rhyme can be read out aloud, as children hunt for the improbable number of animals who clamber aboard an ever-expanding tree.
(posted on 2003-04-02)
Awards
Best Children title for 2011
White Ravens
Anything but a Grabooberry
Anything but a Grabooberry captures the fantasy of a children nonsense verse. It uses typography in a radical and exciting way-as illustrations. Letters and Words take the form of images, so that the child deciphers words like puzzles. Received a special mention in the White Ravens Catalogue 2000.
(posted on 2002-05-31)
Awards
White Ravens
Tiger on a Tree
Tiger on a tree is a whimsical poem for small children about a wild tiger cub that wanders into a village. The art, verse, and typography run and bounce off the page, pursuing the tiger in his misadventures. Was the award winner of the biennale of illustrations , Bratislava 1999.
(posted on 2002-05-31)
Awards
IBBY
Anderson Prize
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Alphabets Are Amazing Animals
In this quirky world of alphabets, there is no end to the strange things animals get up to. Baby Buffaloes Blow Big Blue Bubbles, Fat Fish Frighten Funny Frogs and Wet Wolves Walk With Weeping Walruses. Designed for children who have begun to read and recognise words, these curious and happy scenes come...[
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(posted on 2002-04-22)
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White Ravens
Catch That Crocodile
One morning, Falguni the fruitseller finds a crocodile in a ditch. ‘Catch that crocodile!’ shout the terrified townspeople. But who will do it? Catch that Crocodile! is a book of comic verse with a subtle environmental message. yet another delightful picture book from the award-winning illustrator...[
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(posted on 2002-03-27)
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IBBY
In the Dark
Five men are out walking on a moonless night, when suddenly they bump into something. Each of them sees something different, yet each is convinced that he is right. How is that possible? And what could this thing be? In the Dark is a tale of wisdom for all ages. This witty and unique version of a traditional...[
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(posted on 2002-03-15)
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White Ravens
Trash!
Trash! is a unique combination of fiction and fact. Based on the real life experiences of ragpicker children, it tells the story of Velu, a runaway village child. He ends up as a ragpicker in a big city and must face the harsh realities of life on the streets. The story is accompanied by facts and arguments...[
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(posted on 2002-03-15)
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White Ravens