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Pequeño Editor house description

Pequeño Editor is an Argentinean Publisher dedicated to the production of illustrated books for 'small readers' and 'big curious'. Pequeño’s team is composed of authors, photographers and illustrators who pool resources and knowledge to produce beautiful and original books. They work in a cooperative form and are in close relation to an Argentinean printer. Their motto: to create a bigger literary space where experimentation with text, illustrations, photographs and format can be used with freedom.

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Cocó cocorococó

\"Coco cocorococó is a cute, circular book for the younguest. With an accumulation of sounds, characters, images, the child will learn to discover more and more in both the text and the images. It is a simple story with a touch of humor that allows for action- quickly and continuously imitating...[more] (posted on 2014-02-18)

Una Casa Bien Abierta

A boy is alone on the beach and it is raining. He thinks of the word "house", casa. He creates houses made of rocks and shells on the sand, write the name casa, shouts the word casa...he is dreaming of a house and the family that goes with it. Homeless and orphan, his house has always been the world....[more] (posted on 2013-05-01)

Arrorro

In a house by the river in Argentina, a father sings a lullaby to his daughter. The child replies with her own stanzas. So begins a compelling duet, in which the child summons the help of the owl and other nocturnal animals – the father, in turn, tells about the alligator, the cougar and other daytime...[more] (posted on 2013-02-19)

Donde la Ciudad Termina

The child in this story engages in a conversation with an adult, his mother’s boyfriend, and starts bonding with him. The adult tells about his childhood and the slow transition from country to city. The voice of the child, all caution and impatience at first, gives way to sheer wonder. Together, in...[more] (posted on 2013-02-19)

Rompecabezas

Fleas, dogs, geese, hyenas, parrots, flies and rabbits live with us, together with billions of other animals and people. Although we are so many and so distinctive, there is something in which we are alike: we are all different. And although there may not be a number that can contain us, there is a word...[more] (posted on 2013-02-19)

Full Moon

What we do say that the moon is full? What is it full of? A cute story for toddlers when they go to bed! (posted on 2012-11-09)

Something Smells Here!

A funny adventure in the toy world! The very expressive illustrations talk for themselves! The story actually has no words (and doesn\'t need them). (posted on 2012-11-09)

Por Qué los Elefantes Prefieren Jugar a la Mancha

A group of animals play hide-and-seek. The mouse counts to ten. The bee hides in a matchbox; the cat in a piano. The elephant looks for a place to hide. In a chest? Under the table? Behind the curtain? The dreaded words ‘I see the elephant’ make him freeze. This happens again and again, and that’s...[more] (posted on 2012-11-08)

Cuentos del Globo 3

Each book from the Tales around the Globe collection presents three traditional stories illustrated beautifully, from three different continents. They are versions of the same story, with differences in the plot, characters, and scenery. By reading, each child will discover the secret thread that unifies...[more] (posted on 2012-02-16)

Cuentos del Globo 2

Each book presents three traditional stories illustrated beautifully, from three different continents. They are versions of the same story, with differences in the plot, characters, and scenery. By reading, each child will discover the secret thread that unifies the stories. An illustrated map contains...[more] (posted on 2012-02-13)

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

Peinados Variados

Elenio Pico imagined hairstyles bordering on the impossible that will delight the girls that read this book. Sergio Kern wrote tiny poems to accompany his friend’s images, so reversing the way of creating illustrated books. The result is a never-ending book that continues on the head of every reader. (posted on 2011-02-28)

Diamantes y Sapos

A very long time ago this tale dispersed throughout the world like a seed carried by the wind. It took root in South America, Europe and Africa. In each region people told the tale using characters, animals, trees, customs and skies that they knew. Thus it developed in a different way in each land but,...[more] (posted on 2011-02-28)

Muy Lejos de la Tierra

Rita has always wanted to be an astronaut. When she was twelve months old, the age when babies start to talk, Rita did not say bread. She didn’t say mummy or daddy either. Her first word was moon. When asked for a drawing Rita would draw a rocket. She never drew a house with a chimney, trees and a...[more] (posted on 2011-02-28)

Latin American Toys Soldiers

This is the first book fully dedicated to toy soldiers making in Latin America ever published. Though there are some vague references in few toy soldiers’ books released around the world, almost all of them have no further information nor images about these miniatures produced from Argentina to Mexico,...[more] (posted on 2010-08-26)

Pequeñas Historias de Grandes Pintores

There are many different ways to look at a picture. One of the most beautiful and intense approaches is to paint it again. This is how Elenio Pico invites the reader to get to know the work of twenty-three pre-eminent artists from throughout history. He chooses a worthy detail from the long and complex...[more] (posted on 2010-03-04)

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)

Apu

A fun compendium of short stories and comic strips by illustrator, painter and sculptor Leo Arias. (posted on 2009-09-23)

Cada Uno con sus Gustos

Each one with his own taste introduces a group of friends with tastes as different as possible: music, bananas, wind, fleas... When Zeca has a problem, everyone visits him sharing their likings with him. Zeca concludes that what he likes best is his friends. (posted on 2009-03-05)

Pájaro Suerte

Short and playful poems introducing unknown... or perhaps very familiar birds, like the luck bird, the tan tan bird and the spoon bird. With humor, metaphores and word games, Cecilia Pisos gives life to these birds, whose song invites readers to invent their own. (posted on 2009-03-03)

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

Los sueños del agua

The sun comes out after a storm, trees bend down; the sky lightens, and down on the ground, the water stops: at last it sleeps. In puddles, the place where the sky reflects and represents, children bend down to watch the dreams of the water. These brief poems with an air of haiku describe the moment...[more] (posted on 2009-03-03)

Banzo y Benito

In this comic, Banzo and Benito play, dream, fight and return to playing. On opening the book what catches the reader’s attention, and what will be remembered after finishing it, is the intensity of the colours. The brightness and sparkle of the world touched by friendship. (posted on 2008-12-03)

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

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...[more] (posted on 2008-03-12)

Spaghetti

Stop! Don´t just eat those spaghetti yet! Instead, imagine them lose in the world: what do they look like? How many things could they be?A book which nourishes the spirit of play.An imaginary travel in the world of spaghetti and what they can become! (posted on 2008-03-09)

Autos

Two friends share a moment. One is building something. What is it? “Guess!” is the answer of the builder, spreading his enthusiasm to his friend. Right away the house—the book—fills up with cardboard cars. One even has a blueprint. When the characters—and the reader who´s become an accomplice...[more] (posted on 2008-03-08)

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

Agua Salada

Who made seawater salty? A captain. Why? Questions and answers lead to the unraveling of an ancient mystery. (posted on 2007-11-19)

Fiesta de Disfraces

With few words and forceful illustrations Fiesta de disfraces tells with humor a story of classic structure. The introduction presents the masquerade party and the different costumes chosen by the invited animals. The central conflict is about the problem the worm has in not knowing which costume to...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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Quiero Ver una Vaca

What has more value: an idea or a cow? what if the cow is red? and if it is in love? Theater Company of Objects El Pingüinazo, from Rosario, Argentina, has illustrated this text by Uruguayan poet Enrique Fierro with especially designed objects. A book to read with more than four eyes. With Poetry,...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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

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

Animaladas

These animals have human problems and also, like characters in a fable, the gift of speech. The minimal stories drawn in its pages are not ended with a moral: conflicts are loosened with laughter. Selected by the Nacional Plan for Reading, Argentine. Selected by Improvement Program for Rural Education...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

Nariz de Higo

A chubby uncle can pull out your nose, one day. Then, you will see it dancing on the edge of things...... Will it return to its place between your eyes?, or will it stay forever in your uncle´s power. Selected by the Nacional Plan for Reading, Argentine. Selected by Improvement Program for Rural Education...[more] (posted on 2007-11-19)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Feliz

A comic book you just bought flies from your hands to the hands of the bully in the neighborhood. Can something worse happen to you? You feel the pleasure of imagining revenge; it would be only fair. You are afraid. How do you go the distance between what you imagine and what you are capable of doing? http://www.fzimbres.com.br http://www.tonto.com.br (posted on 2007-11-19)

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Gritar los Goles

What do you do with an insisting fan? What do you do when you cannot bear it any longer? A story which does not give the correct answers. Selected by Nacional Plan for reading (SEP), México. (posted on 2007-11-19)

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

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

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)

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)

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