Sea of Stories

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...[more] (posted on 2011-03-15)

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)

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...[more] (posted on 2009-03-03)

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?...[more] (posted on 2008-03-14)

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...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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)

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....[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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)