Cuatrogatos Foundation Award

Awarded books

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  Prohibido leer a Lewis Carroll

  Diego Arboleda 

  Ilustraciones de Raúl Sagospe 

  Madrid: Anaya, 2013 

  Novel
  

  For those who took off as readers

  ISBN: 978-84-678-4012-4

  Sustained exercise of surrealist fable built around the legacy of writer Lewis Carroll and the figure of his muse Alice Liddell. Eccentric and hyperbolic characters, a plot as crazy as well woven and a suggestive network of cultural and historical references, becomes a fun tribute to the senseless. Reading as a possibility to recreate and inhabit fantastic scenarios.

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  Soldados en la lluvia

  Toño Malpicaí 

  Ilustraciones de Marí­a Teresa Devia;

  Colección Torre de papel, serie amarilla

  Bogotá: Norma, 2013

  Novel

  For those who became great readers

  ISBN: 978-958-45-4131-4

  Two children, a dying old man and a persecuted man coincide between the four walls of a humble dwelling in a forgotten village. As a backdrop, the last times of the Mexican Revolution, a bloody and confused time, in which few remember or know the reasons why they make war. Psychological complexity and careful composition in a novel for young readers that connects with a significant slope of the history of Mexican narrative.

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  Tiquititán de poemas

  Selección de Marí­a Elena Maggi y Marí­a Francisca Mayobre 

  Ilustraciones de Ana Palmero Cáceres 

  Caracas / Barcelona: Ekaré, 2013  

  Poetry

  For those who took off as readers

  ISBN: 978-980-257-356-1

  Anthology of verses for children supported by cheerful, luminous and eurhythmic illustrations that recreate a diversity of characters and settings. Initiation in the most select of Venezuelan poetry for children, through a tour that allows to appreciate the work of authors of the twentieth century. Invitation to explore rhythms and cadences; To discover poetry as a welcoming space, playful and spiritual enrichment.

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  El único y verdadero rey del bosque

  Iban Barenetxea

  Barcelona: A buen paso, 2013

  Short story

  For those who took off as readers

  ISBN: 978-84-941579-1-2

  A story that fondly evokes the spirit of popular tales and takes up the motive of the rogue who comes out even in the most difficult situations. The elegance of the prose, adorned with effective touches of humor, finds its correspondence in a proposal of illustration of great clarity, that excels by the expressivity of the personages and the compositional balance. As in the old stories, mischief ends up triumphing with force and authoritarianism. But, in reality, the real winner is not "the king of the forest", but the reader who has the possibility of enjoying his adventures.

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  Yo

  Menena Cottin 

  México D.F.: Ediciones Tecolote, 2013 

  Picture book

  For the little ones who cant read

  ISBN: 978-607-7656-80-7

  Philosophy for children, a work that makes available to the smallest, with admirable simplicity, complex notions and concepts. An exquisite ludic approach to the condition of the human being and the eternal cycle of life. With two inks, stylized silhouettes that evoke the last stage of Matisse and a sophisticated design, this proposal explores individuality, the relationship with others and with space and the sense of belonging, in a journey that transits from the self to us.