In the last quarter of the year, we want our book harvest to be excellent. We are already working towards this. We have a very demanding readership and we do not want to disappoint their expectations.
Our Black Seriesis expanding with:
The Rabbit Tales, and other tales of the albino people of Mozambique.
Last 2017, Ana Cristina and Daniel travelled to Maputo and collected almost a hundred stories, songs and testimonies about the discrimination suffered by the albino people of Mozambique. Daniel Tornero illustrated the stories with the albino children of Matola and with the little people who come to Hakumana, a centre in Maputo where street children are cared for.
The material used to make the collages was cardboard that we collected from the streets of Maputo and which the albino children from Matola painted white.
In many of the stories they told us, the main character is the rabbit, because it is a clawless, toothless animal that manages to survive in the jungle thanks to its intelligence. The same as the hedgehog in Los cuentos del erizo y otros cuentos de las mujeres del Sáhara (The Hedgehog’s Tales, and other tales of the women of the Sahara). Or the hare in El dragon que se comió el sol y otros cuentos de la Baja Casamance (The Dragon Who Ate the Sun and other tales from Lower Casamance). People need to be told that it is possible to defeat those big creatures that threaten to eat us and that it can be done without using violence, only with intelligence.
Our collection Cuentos crecederos also grows with:
La rata que nunca fue presumida(The Little Mouse who never asked for it)
Version by Ana Cristina Herreros Illustrations by Violeta Lópiz
We have always been told the story of the little rat who finds a coin, buys a little ribbon and is eaten for showing off. But this story was not always like that. There are old versions where it is told in a different way. We found in a compilation of tales from the Balearic Islands by Mossen Josep Maria Alcover a version that we worked on and this is the one offered in this impressive illustrated album. Here the rat does not buy, with the money obtained from her work, a ribbon but a cabbage to make a house for herself. What happens next you will have to read about it'.
Paporco
Version by Ana Cristina Herreros e Illustration by Jesús Gabán
This is a version from a Sardinian version. The classic story is a classic: a very paternal being, so much so that his name is Paporco, or Papa Ogre, who eats all the children he meets when he is hungry. Just like Cronos, the Time. This is the story of how he can be defeated without violence, only with cunning, and with laughter, which is the sonorous form that intelligence acquires to manifest itself.
We publish the winner of the competition La gente SIN HOGAR también cuenta(People WITHOUT A HOME are also important):
This year we are organising the illustrated album competition La gente también cuenta(people are also important) with the theme La gente SIN HOGAR también cuenta(HOMELESS people are also important). And at the end of October the winning album was published: a group of homeless people have reflected on and illustrated what a home can be when you become homeless. We wanted to give a voice to silenced and invisible groups and we have succeeded: homeless people have participated in the competition. We will present the book on World Homeless Day: 26 November.
Save the date to join us.
Our collection of Old Talesis also growing with the publication of:
Norwegian Erotic Tales
A couple of years ago we published a volume of 110 tales collected two hundred years ago by Asbjornsen and Moe, which included 160 engravings of the time and which cover was a painting by Theodor Kittelsen on a tale from the anthology: King Valemon,the White Bear, the Norwegian version of Beauty and the Beast. We thought we were editing all the stories collected by Asbjornsen and Moe. But when the book was in print, Mariano González Campo wrote us an e-mail telling us that he had found 50 stories that had also been collected by these two compilers but which do not appear in the Runeberg Project. They had been hidden and almost destroyed because Moe was a priest, he even became a bishop, and the stories were erotic. It was not possible to include them in the edition that was already being bound, but in October they will see the light of day in a separate volume, illustrated by a contemporary artist.
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