Home
Series
New and forthcoming
Highlights
Authors
Awards
News
Distribution
Foreign rights
My shopping cart
Cuatrogatos Foundation, a renowned non-profit organisation which focuses on research in Spanish literature for children and young adults, has presented its "top 20 books by Iberoamerican authors" list.
"These 20 books are highly recommended because of their literary and artistic values", in the words of a member of the Foundation. These books have been chosen by a multidisciplinary team with a shared interest in creating and analyzing Children and Young Adults' Literature.
"Clarice was a queen" has been selected to contribute the top 20 books list, awarded with the Cuatrogatos Foundation Award, and it has been reviewed as follow:
"A beatiful and enigmatic picture book that displays parallel stories -text and pictures, reality and fantasy- in order to show the drama and the dreams of an exclude human being and allowing her to trascend the social invisibility. Clarice is a moving character because of her helplessness, the sadness of her future we can foresee and because her ability to dream. This is a challenging proposal, which is made richer thanks to the sensitivity and mutual understanding of the reader, who can imagine the underlying stories".
Clarice no tiene una vida fácil. Tras largo tiempo lejos de su hogar, reemprende el camino de vuelta a su casa imaginaria, el lugar donde se siente protegida por sus recuerdos. Pero no puede llegar allí vestida de cualquier manera: ella sabe que es una reina y como tal debe presentarse. Su regio vestido, sus deseos y su imaginación la ayudarán a ponerse a salvo del mundo que la rodea. Y, por fin, podrá descansar.
Premio de la Fundación Cuatrogatos 2014
"Hermoso y enigmático libro álbum que despliega narrativas paralelas -texto e imágenes, realidad y fantasía- para exponer el drama y los sueños de un ser marginado y permitirle trascender la invisibilidad social a que ha sido reducido. Clarice es un personaje conmovedor por su desamparo, la tristeza del destino que le adivinamos y su capacidad de soñar. Propuesta retadora, que se enriquece con la sensibilidad y la complicidad de un lector capaz de imaginar las historias subyacentes" (Cuatrogatos).
