Cuatrogatos Foundation Award

Awarded books

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  La guarida de las Lechuzas

  Antonio Ramos Revillas 

  Ilustraciones de Isidro R. Esquivel 

  Colección Ecos de Tinta 

  México D.F.: Ediciones El Naranjo, 2013 

  Novel

  For those who dare with challenging books

  ISBN: 978-607-7661-66-5

  With a teenager as narrator and protagonist, the novel looks at the complex relationships established by young people today in the family and school settings. With a solid structure, a never-ending narrative rhythm and elegant and expressive prose, the plot drives us with a firm pulse in an exploration of the world of school gangs and the search for individual values. The discovery of love, friendship and the often difficult paternal-filial relationships add to the motives of this sensitive and intelligent work.

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  El idioma secreto

  Marí­a José Ferrada 

   Ilustraciones de Zuzanna Celej 

   Pontevedra: Faktorí­a K de Libros, Kalandraka, 2013 

   Poetry

  For those who became great readers

  ISBN: 978-84-15250-49-4

  A different look at the environment that surrounds us. A philosophy of life bequeathed from the old to the young as in whispers, with delicacy and wisdom. The collection of poems rescues values --in the process of getting lost in realities where it seems to live in too much haste and without appreciating the details and spaces more warm and simple. Reposado and intimate lyric discourse, in free verses that exalt the secret world of femininity and love for the family, as well as the transmission of emotions and secrets from generation to generation.

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  Letras robadas

  Triunfo Arciniegas 

  Ilustraciones de Claudia Rueda 

  Colección Los álbumes 

  Barcelona / México D.F.: Océano Travesí­a, 2013 

  Short story

  Fort those who start reading

  ISBN: 978-607-400-962-0

  The mottled and colorful world of popular markets perceived by a girl. Sensorial approach to words, writing and stories suggested by everyday reality. The enriching contrast between the verbal narrative, concise and refined, and the lavish illustrations in personages, environments, landscapes and costumbristas details, gives another turn of nut to the traditional reason of the mice collectors of infantile teeth.

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  Lo más raro de mi casa

  Marí­a Fernanda Herediaí 

  Ilustraciones de Roger Ycazaí 

  Colección Ala Delta, serie rojaí 

  Buenos Aires: Edelvives, 2012

  Short story

  Fort those who start reading

  ISBN: 978-987-642-164-5

  Is it possible to exchange a grandfather for a sticky Amazonian frog? Funny story that, through an irreverent anecdote and with a great knowledge of children 's logic, proposes a reflection on the place of the elderly in the family and on the importance of intergenerational communication. Supported by nice illustrations, the plot flows joyously to remind us that "the world would be very rare if the grandparents did not exist ...".

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  Loba

  Verónica Murguí­aí 

  Colección Gran Angularí 

  Madrid: Ediciones SM, 2013í 

  Novel

  For those who became great readers

  ISBN: 978-84-675-6168-5

  With the mythical figures of the dragon and the unicorn as props of a fantastic universe that unfolds ambitiously before the reader, this novel presents adolescent heroes who witness the fierce confrontation of two antagonistic universes and protagonists of a complex initiation in the world of the adults . In a time and a space of legends, crossed by historical references, this captivating epic shows a poetic prose of unusual richness and quality, that clothes archetypal characters and great themes of the universal narrative: love, hate, doubt, fear, fidelity, ambition, hope...