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Para dar respuesta a ciertas preguntas sobre el suelo que pisaban, sobre su geografía, la gente inventó relatos que se iban contando de abuelos a padres, de padres a hijos. En una montaña veían la silueta de una mujer muerta e imaginaban una historia de amor y muerte. Encontraban una fuente que manaba agua caliente e imaginaban que el agua llegaba de las calderas del infierno. Contemplaban un valle anegado por un lago e imaginaban una ciudad sumergida bajo las aguas para castigar la avaricia de sus vecinos. En las leyendas de esta geografía mágica aparecen gigantes, diablos, santos, encantadas, hechiceros. La magia está siempre presente. Y también el amor, que es otra forma de decir magia.

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Es de noche en la Baja Casamance, a la luz de la hoguera se oyen unas palabras: Voy a contar un cuentooooo. Los que escuchan responden: Te escuchaaaaamos. Y ya comienzan los cuentos que hablan de dragones que traen la lluvia, de serpientes que se convierten en seres humanos, de sirenas que se ocultan en los pantanos... Con ellos se enseña que quien no tiene cicatrices es porque no es humano, que se gasta solo en lo que es necesario, que el trabajo y el cuidado de los otros siempre tiene recompensa. Cuentos que han sido escuchados su propia lengua, seleccionados de entre los más de cien recogidos, editados e ilustrados con las imágenes que han creado los mismos niños que nos han contado las historias. Es este un libro completo, pues, donde palabra e imagen se dan la mano y nos llevan por el mundo de la imaginación de la Baja Casamance.

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★ A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2021 ★“In this gloriously unruly feminist fable, The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It explores the power of art-making, the tedium of the domestic, and the dangers of heteronormativity, all within beautiful pictures and tender words. I was enchanted by the pairing of graphic illustration and tight prose on every page. It is luminous and evocative from start to finish.” —Alisson Woods, author of Being LolitaFolklorist Ana Cristina Herreros and visionary illustrator Violeta Lópiz spin a deeply feminist retelling of an old Spanish folktale in The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It. Through rhythmic text, highly conceptual illustrations, and a final visual narrative that is silent but revelatory, this YA picture book builds from deceptive simplicity to an explosive end.The story begins with a mouse, very neat and hard-working, who makes herself a home. In disbelief that she has a house but isn’t a wife, suitors show up uninvited, each asking for her hand. She turns everyone down… until a pack of tiny kittens arrive, and she agrees to marry the smallest and most defenseless of the bunch. But it does every mouse well to remember that a kitten always grows up to be a cat.Today, the most commonly told version of this popular folktale serves as a warning, scaring girls to choose good men to marry by reminding them that the cat will always devour the mouse. But this story is rooted in the non-normative, non-performative original version, before it became a cautionary tale.Here, by contrast, the story tells of the pain and harm that come from falling prey to situations beyond one’s control. It is also a powerful story of reclaiming one’s selfhood.

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Does every country have a Tooth Fairy? Well, in Spain and other Spanish- speaking countries, it happens to be a Tooth Mouse, and this is his story!★ A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2023 ★ A 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Book ★Long ago, throughout the Spanish-speaking world, the Tooth Mouse brought children their permanent teeth, strong and straight as a mouse’s. Tracing the Tooth Mouse’s beginnings through to his descendants, this book artfully weaves the Tooth Mouse’s changing habits as the world industrializes, with the growing independence of the child, as teeth fall out and the child learns to care for themselves. It’s also a playful, thought-provoking history of our changing world—as even Tooth Mice and children must adapt their customs when faced with the culture-shifting forces of urbanization, migration, and capitalism...Just remember, magic can always be recovered, and the real gift in losing baby teeth is growing up!

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