foreign rights catalog 2018
FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOG 2018
Dídac P. Lagarriga & Albert Asensio
The awakening of the tree A small tree wakes up after a long winter, barely able to see. As it grows, it is going to experiment the seasons and the interaction with the other trees, animals and humans. AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: April 2018
Inês Castel-Branco
The drop of water Based on a text of Raimon Panikkar
An adaptation of a text from Raimon Panikkar, this beautiful book explains death to children, in a serene and natural way, in the year of the 100th Anniversary of the philosopher’s birth.
What happens to the drop of water when it falls into the ocean? The drop disappears. But what am I, the drop of water or the water in the drop? Nothing happens to the water. Death won´t be different from life.
AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: April 2018
Mario Satz & Maria Beitia
The feather
A feather breaks away from a pigeon and falls into a bush. When a mother finds it, she gives it a new life. AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: April 2018
Wilfred
The two wolves Each one of us has a good and a bad wolf inside, explains an Indian legend. “Which one of them will win?”, asks a little Indian girl to her grandfather… His answer results brief and surprising. AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: May 2018
Manel Ollé & Neus Caamaño
Tao
Fragments of Master Laozi’s philosophy How to introduce children to the philosophy of taoism? Trough selected extracts of the Tao Te Ching, talking about rivers, houses or trees, they will come to discover how to think about life in a diferent way. PEQUEÑO FRAGMENTA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: October 2017
Rights sold in FRANCE
Flavia Company & Luciano Lozano
Haru’s school
Follow the five years apprenticeship of four students and their master Haru in a Dojo, through nine episodes focusing on Oriental disciplines such as origami, callygraphy, taichi, meditation, gardening, cleaning, playing, silence or archery. PEQUEÑO FRAGMENTA, Spain, 48 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: October 2017
Halil Bárcena & Mariona Cabassa
Inês Castel-Branco
Àlex Tovar & Àfrica Fanlo
Nasrudin’s stories
Breathe
The tightrope walker
Nasrudin is a wise man who will disconcert young readers and adults alike with his spontaneity and unhibitions, so similar to those of children. His stories go much further than conventional jokes, they are an example of the transforming power of humor!
“Mum, I can’t sleep tonight. I am nervous and so many thoughts are going through my mind.” “Let me show you how to breathe…” A beautifully illustrated picture book that will enable children to overcome their anxieties through playful breathing, stretching and relaxation excercises they can relate to.
Life is like a thread we walk on every day, taking one step after the other, climbing high and going down, facing the rain and the storms, getting lost and crossing the path of people putting us in the right direction… making each one of us a tightrope walker in our own way.
Winner of the 2016 Children’s Literature Serra d’Or Critical Award (Spain)
Rights sold in ITALY, POLAND, FRANCE & NORTH AMERICA
Awarded “Best-edited books” of the Ministry of Culture of Spain 2016 Rights sold in CHINA & GERMANY
Inês Castel-Branco & Maria Ella Carrera
Jordi Amenós & Albert Arrayás
Your song
Where is the moon? The gentile and the three wise men One night, before going to bed, Pablo
There is a legend that says that in an African tribe, when a woman discovers she is expecting, she rushes to tell the others. A few days later, at sunrise, they all get into the jungle to uncover, together, the song of the new child, the one they believe will accompany him his own life.
looks attentively at the moon for the first time. He finds it so beautiful, magical, big and shiny. But a few days later he realises it’s getting smaller and smaller…until it disappears completely. Where is it gone? Can his friends help him solve the mystery?
Rights sold in KOREA & CHINA
Ignasi Moreta & Àfrica Fanlo
Once upon a time there was a gentile, that is, a man who wasn’t practicing any religion. His way crossed the one of three wise men, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim. As each of the three men tried to convince him his faith was the real one, they came to realize this encounter was a chance to unite rather than to divide.
Rights sold in FRANCE & ITALY
Tina Vallès & Gabriel Salvadó
Nina da Lua & Gemma Capdevila
Míriam Raventós & Maria Girón
Dripperlipper
The song of silence
Yoga
Dripperlipper is an unlucky boy. He has one distracted and one surprised eye and always walks around with an open mouth and his shirt soaked with a trail of saliva falling down. Boney is a colourless scrwany fish that lives in the fishes’ stall of a travelling funfair. One day the funfair moves into Dripperlipper’s street…
“Where do the stars hide when the day comes?” asks a little boy to his mum. “What if we asked this to the silence?” she replies. In a sensitive and poetical text, reminiscent of Haikus, Nina da Lua takes us on a journey through pain, separation, friendship, dreams, hope… silent situations in which stars hide.
Can you do many things at once? It’s not so hard... Well, many, many years ago, in India, some men realized that doing many things at once was fairly easy but they wondered what would happen if they only did one thing, the simplest, the most natural one of all: breathing… A beautiful introductory book to Yoga.
Rights sold in NORTH AMERICA & ITALY
Alain Allard & Mariona Cabassa
Laia de Ahumada & Mercè López
Marta Millà & Rebeca Luciani
Coming and Going Day
The sixth sense
Jatakas
For thousands of years people had been Nomads, following the rhythms of the earth, the passage of the sun and the dance of time. Now, however, they have houses and barely move. But, each year, they keep on honoring their wandering roots in a communal Coming and Going Day.
Next to the five senses, we must have another one that enables us to see, listen, smell, taste and feel what we can not see with our eyes, our ears, our nose, our mouth or with the touch: the sixth sense. A beautifully illustrated book about listening to what we feel inside, intuition and sensitivity.
Rights sold in FRANCE
Six budhist tales A long, long time ago, some very peculiar animals with magic powers were born in Southeast Asia. They say that everywhere they went, they transformed shadows into light. Six beautifully illustrated Jatakas, old tales in which Budha and his disciples transmit love and respect towards their surroundings and others.
Akiara Books, originally born in Barcelona two years ago under the name of Pequeño Fragmenta, will be in Bologna again this year. Publishing beautifully-illustrated children’s books focusing on spirituality, self-knowledge, tales from other cultures, ecology, philosophy and mindfulness, we are very proud to have sold rights of our titles, so far, in English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese simplified and Korean languages and would be delighted to present you our new projects at the fair. Don’t hesitate to book an appointment with us, we will be in hall 22, stand C29. Inês Castel-Branco [email protected] FOREIGN RIGHTS Please contact Veronique Kirchhoff, from VéroK Agency: [email protected]
www.akiarabooks.com
Dídac P. Lagarriga & Albert Asensio
The awakening of the tree A small tree wakes up after a long winter, barely able to see. As it grows, it is going to experiment the seasons and the interaction with the other trees, animals and humans. AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: April 2018
Inês Castel-Branco
The drop of water Based on a text of Raimon Panikkar
An adaptation of a text from Raimon Panikkar, this beautiful book explains death to children, in a serene and natural way, in the year of the 100th Anniversary of the philosopher’s birth.
What happens to the drop of water when it falls into the ocean? The drop disappears. But what am I, the drop of water or the water in the drop? Nothing happens to the water. Death won´t be different from life.
AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: April 2018
Mario Satz & Maria Beitia
The feather
A feather breaks away from a pigeon and falls into a bush. When a mother finds it, she gives it a new life. AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: April 2018
Wilfred
The two wolves Each one of us has a good and a bad wolf inside, explains an Indian legend. “Which one of them will win?”, asks a little Indian girl to her grandfather… His answer results brief and surprising. AKIARA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: May 2018
Manel Ollé & Neus Caamaño
Tao
Fragments of Master Laozi’s philosophy How to introduce children to the philosophy of taoism? Trough selected extracts of the Tao Te Ching, talking about rivers, houses or trees, they will come to discover how to think about life in a diferent way. PEQUEÑO FRAGMENTA, Spain, 40 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: October 2017
Rights sold in FRANCE
Flavia Company & Luciano Lozano
Haru’s school
Follow the five years apprenticeship of four students and their master Haru in a Dojo, through nine episodes focusing on Oriental disciplines such as origami, callygraphy, taichi, meditation, gardening, cleaning, playing, silence or archery. PEQUEÑO FRAGMENTA, Spain, 48 pp., hardcover, 28 x 24 cm Publication date in Spain: October 2017
Halil Bárcena & Mariona Cabassa
Inês Castel-Branco
Àlex Tovar & Àfrica Fanlo
Nasrudin’s stories
Breathe
The tightrope walker
Nasrudin is a wise man who will disconcert young readers and adults alike with his spontaneity and unhibitions, so similar to those of children. His stories go much further than conventional jokes, they are an example of the transforming power of humor!
“Mum, I can’t sleep tonight. I am nervous and so many thoughts are going through my mind.” “Let me show you how to breathe…” A beautifully illustrated picture book that will enable children to overcome their anxieties through playful breathing, stretching and relaxation excercises they can relate to.
Life is like a thread we walk on every day, taking one step after the other, climbing high and going down, facing the rain and the storms, getting lost and crossing the path of people putting us in the right direction… making each one of us a tightrope walker in our own way.
Winner of the 2016 Children’s Literature Serra d’Or Critical Award (Spain)
Rights sold in ITALY, POLAND, FRANCE & NORTH AMERICA
Awarded “Best-edited books” of the Ministry of Culture of Spain 2016 Rights sold in CHINA & GERMANY
Inês Castel-Branco & Maria Ella Carrera
Jordi Amenós & Albert Arrayás
Your song
Where is the moon? The gentile and the three wise men One night, before going to bed, Pablo
There is a legend that says that in an African tribe, when a woman discovers she is expecting, she rushes to tell the others. A few days later, at sunrise, they all get into the jungle to uncover, together, the song of the new child, the one they believe will accompany him his own life.
looks attentively at the moon for the first time. He finds it so beautiful, magical, big and shiny. But a few days later he realises it’s getting smaller and smaller…until it disappears completely. Where is it gone? Can his friends help him solve the mystery?
Rights sold in KOREA & CHINA
Ignasi Moreta & Àfrica Fanlo
Once upon a time there was a gentile, that is, a man who wasn’t practicing any religion. His way crossed the one of three wise men, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim. As each of the three men tried to convince him his faith was the real one, they came to realize this encounter was a chance to unite rather than to divide.
Rights sold in FRANCE & ITALY
Tina Vallès & Gabriel Salvadó
Nina da Lua & Gemma Capdevila
Míriam Raventós & Maria Girón
Dripperlipper
The song of silence
Yoga
Dripperlipper is an unlucky boy. He has one distracted and one surprised eye and always walks around with an open mouth and his shirt soaked with a trail of saliva falling down. Boney is a colourless scrwany fish that lives in the fishes’ stall of a travelling funfair. One day the funfair moves into Dripperlipper’s street…
“Where do the stars hide when the day comes?” asks a little boy to his mum. “What if we asked this to the silence?” she replies. In a sensitive and poetical text, reminiscent of Haikus, Nina da Lua takes us on a journey through pain, separation, friendship, dreams, hope… silent situations in which stars hide.
Can you do many things at once? It’s not so hard... Well, many, many years ago, in India, some men realized that doing many things at once was fairly easy but they wondered what would happen if they only did one thing, the simplest, the most natural one of all: breathing… A beautiful introductory book to Yoga.
Rights sold in NORTH AMERICA & ITALY
Alain Allard & Mariona Cabassa
Laia de Ahumada & Mercè López
Marta Millà & Rebeca Luciani
Coming and Going Day
The sixth sense
Jatakas
For thousands of years people had been Nomads, following the rhythms of the earth, the passage of the sun and the dance of time. Now, however, they have houses and barely move. But, each year, they keep on honoring their wandering roots in a communal Coming and Going Day.
Next to the five senses, we must have another one that enables us to see, listen, smell, taste and feel what we can not see with our eyes, our ears, our nose, our mouth or with the touch: the sixth sense. A beautifully illustrated book about listening to what we feel inside, intuition and sensitivity.
Rights sold in FRANCE
Six budhist tales A long, long time ago, some very peculiar animals with magic powers were born in Southeast Asia. They say that everywhere they went, they transformed shadows into light. Six beautifully illustrated Jatakas, old tales in which Budha and his disciples transmit love and respect towards their surroundings and others.
Akiara Books, originally born in Barcelona two years ago under the name of Pequeño Fragmenta, will be in Bologna again this year. Publishing beautifully-illustrated children’s books focusing on spirituality, self-knowledge, tales from other cultures, ecology, philosophy and mindfulness, we are very proud to have sold rights of our titles, so far, in English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese simplified and Korean languages and would be delighted to present you our new projects at the fair. Don’t hesitate to book an appointment with us, we will be in hall 22, stand C29. Inês Castel-Branco [email protected] FOREIGN RIGHTS Please contact Veronique Kirchhoff, from VéroK Agency: [email protected]
www.akiarabooks.com
