Cuatrogatos Foundation Award

Awarded books

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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

  For 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 Heredia 

  Ilustraciones de Roger Ycaza 

  Colección Ala Delta, serie roja 

  Buenos Aires: Edelvives, 2012

  Short story

  For 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 Murguí­a 

  Colección Gran Angular 

  Madrid: Ediciones SM, 2013 

  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...

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  Luces en el canal

  David Fernández Sifres 

  Ilustraciones de Puño 

  Colección El barco de vapor, serie naranja 

  Madrid: Ediciones SM, 2013 

  Novel

  For those who took off as readers

  ISBN: 978-84-675-5192-1

  Story about the close friendship that arises between a child with physical limitations, but cheerful, skillful and full of self-confidence, and a marginal old man, harassed by an environment that denies him the right to a social space and dignity. Realistic novel of enlightened humanism, with an end that is transcended, unexpectedly and symbolically, by the irruption of the magic. A beautiful modern fairy tale with the potential to last in memory.

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  Monstruos por el borde del mundo

  Eduardo Abel Giménez 

  Colección Alandar

  Buenos Aires: Edelvives, 2012 

  Novel

  For those who became great readers

  ISBN: 978-987-642-178-2

  Narrativa con muchas capas y multiplicidad de lecturas, que se aventura por caminos novedosos en la ciencia ficción iberoamericana. Sugestivo contrapunteo fantástico en el que dos universos (¿la realidad cotidiana y la virtual?) se entrelazan a través de los sueños, y que apuesta por una historia de amor entre jóvenes. El autor despliega ante sus lectores-cómplices una variedad de elementos narrativos y les permite (y reclama) organizar esas piezas de distintas maneras. Un hermoso recordatorio de la infinitud del universo y del conocimiento.