callis - foreign rights guide 2015

Bologna Book Fair • March/2015

Foreign Rights Guide

NEW PICTURE BOOKS

FICTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to introduce you to our new friends: Bia and Beto (see page 4). They are two sweet little foxes, and like all siblings, they like each other very much, but sometimes they argue and compete. They are smart, but as they are still very young, there are still many things to learn.

At the age of 11 and12, teens often see themselves as grown ups. And LOVE is a big part of their lives. Our series “First loves” (see page 8) takes place in the world of Tina, Nanda, Pisco, Alex and their friends. Written in the language of teenagers, it says all about their feelings, friendships, worries, intrigues, first loves and first heartaches.

These are just two planets in the large kids’ and teens’ universe of Callis. Please take a closer look to discover more of them.

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Sincerely yours,

Miriam GabbaiPublisher

Claudia SteinForeign Rights [email protected]

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NEW PICTURE BOOKS

Bia & Beto: A Gift for Mama

Written by Lawrence SchimelIllustrated by Paz Rodero

28 pages22x22 cm4x4 colors

World rights available

This exciting new series featuring two siblings, Bia & Beto, launches with a sweet story about sibling rivalry that also opens children to the world of comparatives. In this first book, each little fox is in search of a box, but none seem to meet their needs. Bia is looking for a box that is smaller and smaller, while Beto hopes to find a box that is bigger and bigger. However, their competition, But this competition is for the best of reasons: they each want to give their Mom a special gift.

Lawrence Schimel was born in New York and has lived in Madrid, Spain for over 15 years. Writing in both Spanish and English, he has published over 100 books in many different genres. His children’s books have been chosen for the White Ravens and by IBBY for Outstanding Books for Young Readers with Disabilities among other honors.

Paz Rodero, born in Salamanca, is an illustrator, reading advocate and has a degree in law. She has published over 100 books, some of which have been translated into many languages. Paz has taken part in numerous international exhibitions and gives classes and workshops in illustration and reading activities both for young people and for teachers and educators.

Two little foxes and their hilarious adventures.

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Read a Book With Me

Written by Lawrence SchimelIllustrated by Thiago Lopes


World rights available World rights available except for Korean

Antonio can already read, but he prefers to do so with someone else. He asks his mother whether she would read a book with him, but she is busy. So Antonio decides to hit the streets only to find that everyone is busy: the baker, the grocer, the postman, the newswoman . . . Finally, a blind old man sitting on a bench calls him over and asks if he’d like to spend some time together. Excited and happy, Antonio grabs his book and starts reading to the old man.

Lawrence Schimel was born in New York and has lived in Madrid, Spain for over 15 years. Writing in both Spanish and English, he has published over 100 books in many different genres. His children’s books have been chosen for the White Ravens and by IBBY for Outstanding Books for Young Readers with Disabilities among other honors.

Thiago Lopes was born in São Paulo. He has a degree in Graphic Design. He has always liked to communicate using his delicate funny illustrations.

Sometimes unexpected solutions can help fulfill our wishes . . .

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Ilustrações de Thiago Lopes

Lawrence SchimelAntônio já sabia ler sozinho. Mesmo assim, pegou seu livro favorito e foi procurar alguém para ler com ele é tão gostoso compartilhar leituras!

O problema é que todo mundo parecia tão ocupado... Ninguém tinha tempo para ler com Antônio!

E você, quer ler esse livro comigo?

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Grandma Betica’s Stories

Written Blandina FrancoIllustrated by José Carlos Lollo



A curious little girl is mesmerized by her grandma Betica’s stories. One evening, Betica promises to give an orange cheeked parrot to her granddaughter the next day. The girl is so excited that she cannot sleep and gets up to tell her grandma that it is already the next day. But since it is not even midnight, Betica tells the little girl the story of the origin of night until the girl falls asleep ...Other stories are about the Tambatajá plant, a variation of the elephant ear which is a symbol of love in Brazil because the indian, Tambatajá, who loved his wife more than anything in the world. The Legend of the Water Lilly is about a girl who falls in love with the moon and eventually becomes a water lily . . .There are more volumes planned, for example about the origin of the guaraná-plant.

Blandina Franco writes books for children. She lives in São Paulo with her husband Lollo, her sons, a dog and a lot of birds flying around in her garden.

José Carlos Lollo works as an illustrator of children’s books. Together with his wife Blandina, he has published many children’s books, one of which won the Bologna Ragazzi Award for digital books.

A new collection of indigenous legends and folktales, written and illustrated by renown Brazilian storytellers Blandina Franco and José Carlos Lollo

The Legend of the Night

The Legend of the Water Lily

The Legend of Tambatajá

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Old Bob’s Dentures

Written and illustrated by Thiago Lopes



One morning, Old Bob saunters into the bathroom, still half asleep, and accidentally drops his denture into the toilet. While he calls a bunch of specialists to help solve this problem, the animals at sea and ashore are having a terrific time with the strange object. Thiago Lopes’s tongue-in-cheek illustrations are full of funny little details children will love to discover while listening to the story.

Thiago Lopes works as an illustrator and designer, specialized in the publishing area. His book illustrations have been published in Brazil, Australia and in the United States.

The hilarious odyssey of a lost object—written in humorous rhymes with colorful and animated illustrations

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS

Series First Loves

Written by Toni Brandão

5 volumes16x23 cm1x1 colors


They are between eleven and twelve years old, live in São Paulo, and go to the same school. Together they form friendships, experience intrigues, relish first loves, and suffer through their first heartaches. Who will be the first boy to kiss Nanda? Will Tina ever stop being jealous of Camila? And what will the “smart boys” do to teach her a lesson? Discover the answers to these and many other questions as you read through the pages of these books.

Toni Brandão is one of the most successful authors for children and young adults in Brazil, over one and a half million copies of his books have been sold so far. The versatile writer is also working for television, theatre, cinema and some multimedia projects.The main topics of his books are relationships between friends, lovers, family and all the feelings from love to jealousy; social differences, ecology, material and immaterial values and any other topics that matter for teens and young adults.His books are full of suspense and his characters are being described in a very realistic way. He has won several literature prizes in Brazil.

Welcome to the world of Tina, Nanda, and Camila, the world of Beto, Alex, Pisco, and their friends.

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VOLUME 1 – AntônioEleven-year-old Antônio has fallen madly in love for the first time in his life. Camila, the girl of his dreams, has recently moved to São Paulo and attends the class next door. She is not only beautiful, but she also enjoys literature just as much as soccer, which she’s great at. Unfortunately, Antônio is extremely shy and, to make matters worse, his best friend Alex has become infatuated with the same girl. So, Alex tells Antônio that since he “saved his friend’s life” on a stormy day at the beach, Antônio now owes him a favor. Just like Cyrano de Bergerac, Antônio agrees to write heartfelt love letters and sophisticated poems in Alex’s name, convinced that he himself would never have a chance with Camila anyway . . .

VOLUME 2 - TinaTina, an eleven-year-old from a very rich Brazilian family, is sent by her parents to a middle-class school in São Paulo to keep her in touch with the real world and provide a regular rather than privileged upbringing. Although she sometimes stands out for being a little different, she’s managed to make two best friends, Nanda and Gute.However, things change when a new girl arrives at their school: The more the handsome boys seem to be interested in Camila, the more Tina hates her. Then, Gute becomes friends with Camila, something Tina finds unforgivable. Meanwhile, Tina’s birthday is just around the corner. She plans to host a huge party with a DJ from London, and will invite everyone except for Camila. Little does she know that this will actually end up ruining her party . . .

VOLUME 3 - NandaUnlike her friends Tina and Gute, Nanda has never kissed a boy. She decides the time has come; IT will happen at Caio’s party. She plans on drawing the winner of her first kiss among the smartest boys in her school, but suddenly her plan goes out the window. Her grandfather dies, so she can no longer go to the party; however, that doesn’t mean she won’t get to kiss a boy. A few weeks later, Nanda finds out that there are two boys interested in her—the two Robertos at her school, secretly nicknamed Beto 1 and Beto 2. So IT finally happens: Beto 1 gives Nanda her first kiss, but it’s not all she thought it would be. To make matters worse, Tina keeps telling her that the two boys are not really interested, but merely playing with her feelings.In the end, Nanda will have to decide what she really wants and go for it . . .

VOLUME 4 - GuteAfter Gute’s father has been fake-kidnapped by some tricksters, the family gets some security advice from Tina’s father’s personal bodyguard. Meanwhile, Gute and her best friends, Tina and Nanda, meet Leonardo, the bodyguard’s nephew, whose charm leaves the three girls speechless. The boy is apparently most interested in Gute, so she secretly slips him her phone number, but he never calls. While her brother teases her incessantly, Gute becomes increasingly desperate and finally decides to pick up the phone and call Leonardo to find out why he never dialed her number . . .

VOLUME 5 - It’s all his/her faultGute and Pisco are twins; that pretty much sums up their relationship. Both always jump at the chance to say how stupid, pretentious, or nerdy the other one is.One evening, while their parents are out, within the first half hour, they not only begin fighting over the television, but also suddenly drop it to the ground. Then, Pisco locks his sister in the bathroom and, when it seems like they would never again make amends, they have the longest conversation of their life . . .

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Pearl: Year of the Dragon

Written by Rosana Rios and Georgette SilenIllustrated by Marco Antonio Godoy



A fantastic trilogy for young adults, full of suspense, love, and friendship, set in ancient China and present São Paulo, full of suspense, love and friendship


15 year old Pearl, called Lila by her family, lives in São Paulo with her mother Aura, her younger brother and her grand parents. Her mother, a feng shui consultant, is generally thought to be a little weird, and Lila’s classmates also find her weird as well.The story begins when Lila’s mother sends her to buy some things on her way home from school at a shop that sells Chinese artifacts. While waiting alone in this shop full of mysterious old things, she sees a dragon-bracelet with precious stones and cannot resist trying it on. But when she tries to take it off, the bracelet won’t come off her arm.Mrs Mei, the shop owner, asks Lila to work in her shop in the afternoons to pay for the precious item. Lila is not amused about getting stuck in that scary shop every day and being bossed around by Mrs Mei’s son.Then, strange things begin to happen: Every time Lila gets angry, the dragon’s eyes on the bracelet turn red like fire. One day when she’s particularly annoyed by her classmates, a fire breaks out in the library, and Lila begins to wonder wether she had any influence on that incident ...There is something else: Lila starts having dreams about an old chinese temple, a woman with white hair and a mysterious young man called Hien. And little by little, Lila learns the story of a woman who mastered the dragons, during the Mogol Yin dynasty.But the story has not come to an end yet, for there are strange beings trying do suck the energy, the Chi, from other people. And Lila starts to ask herself what role Mrs. Mei and her son Lucas have to play in this whole story ...The Lord of the Di Yu, an evil power, turns out to be responsible for the strange things happening ...

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Georgette Silen, born in Caçapava in the state of São Paulo, is an arts-teacher, theater-director, costume designer and author of fantastic literature.

Rosana Rios, born born and living in São Paulo, works

as a teacher of arts and author. She

has written more than 130 children

books and won many prizes for

her works.

PEARLThe Year of the Serpent

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PEARLThe Year of the Horse

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The Year of the Serpent The Year of the Horse

The year of the serpent brings suspicion, jealousy, and challengesTravelling in modern China, Hien dreams of the ancient country. Lila and he meet inside those dreams. However, Hien does not know that the young man sent to be his guide in China was replaced by a trickster spirit ...In São Paulo, Lila and Lucas become a couple, and Lucas is divided between wanting to stay and the desire to study in the United States.Meanwhile, a myterious Man in Black, Lila’s father, tries to reconnect with his family. And when it seemed impossible for things to get worse, Aura’s aunt comes for an extended visit.The Serpent of Light with its human face arises in everyone’s dreams and visions. Lucas and Lila, in Brazil, and Hien, in China, will have to unravel what this means in order to address it – or ally themselves with the Serpent – to prevent the evil plans of their enemies.

The Year of the Horse begins bringing impulsivity and the yearning for freedom from all prisons, mental or real.Hien returns to Brazil. Even though Lucas is jealous about him and Lila, he prepares to travel to the US.At this time, some Chinese vampires emerge in São Paulo. They suck people’s chi and cause a mysterious illness. One of their victims is Mrs. Mei, and her life is at risk.Lila’s mother discovers that the Heyvenly Horse may be the key to finding a cure. However, invoking it is a hard task: Lila and her frineds will have to do it together.Meanwhile, the Lord of the Di Yu gains strength. He goes in search of the Celestial Horse that can give him the free passage on Earth. And Lila will face the hardest test of all, ever since she used the bracelet and acquired the Power of the Dragon ...

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Daniel Munduruku, descendant of Native Brazilians, tells in these books of the great adventures experienced by him and/or his friends. The stories have a suspenseful atmosphere as they portray fantastic beings that are part of Brazilian legend and myth. Each volume tells four different tales.

STORIESABOUTINDIANS

TO L DBY ANINDIAN

Collection Stories I like to tell

In this collection, the author narrates the great adventures he lived, heard or read about. Each volume contains four stories full of suspense and magic, related to Brazilian myths and legends.


Written by Daniel MundurukuIllustrated by Cecília Rébora16x23cm • 48 pages • 2x2 colors




The Origin – Myths of Brazilian Native-Indians

Written by Daniel MundurukuIllustrated by Rosinha

These tales are full of fantasy, wisdom and surprise and according to the author “should be read with the heart”. Along with the stories’ wisdom and magic, a true

respect towards this rich culture emerges.

16x23cm • 32 pages • 4x4 colors


EXTRACTHOW THE FIRE APPEAREDA myth of the Caiapó Indians

When a young Caiapó indian was trying to catch some baby-birds in a hole high up in a thick wall, a Jaguar passed near by. He was extremely hungry and looking for food.Them he saw the boy’s shadow moving on the ground and jumped on it to catch it, but that didn’t help. He waited for the boy to move and made another futile try. He only could see the boy when he spit in her direction. He raised his head and finally discovered him.— What are you doing up there? — he asked the boy.— I’m here because my brother in law left me imprisoned.— And what is there in the hole?— There are baby-macaws — the boy answered.— Why don’t you throw some to me?He was so clever to throw only one to the jaguar, that devoured the baby macaw immediately.— Was there only one? — the feline asked.— No, there is one left.— Throw it down to me, then.So, the boy threw the second baby macaw, which was immediately devoured by the hungry jaguar. Then, he took the tree-trunk, leaned it on the wall and told the boy to come down. But the boy was afraid that the jaguar would eat him and when he was reaching the ground, he become very anxious and climbed up to the top of the wall again. The jaguar calmed him, promising that he would give him to drink. Overwhelmed by his thirst, the boy finally came down.When he reached the ground, the jaguar carried him on his back to a little creek.The boy drank so much water that he lay down on the ground and fell asleep. He slept for a long time, until the jaguar, that had observed him, awoke him. When the boy awoke, the jaguar told him that he wanted to adopt him, because he didn’t have any children.The boy, still a little suspicious, accepted. He was carried by the male jaguar on a way he didn’t know. When he arrived at the house of his new father, he saw that there was a huge trunk burning at one end.— What is that smoke, my father?— It is fire, my son.— What is fire?— You will find out when at night the cold will come and the fire will warm you.This said, the jaguar gave the boy much roasted meet. As this was new to him – his folks didn’t know the fire – he ate until he could no more. He fell asleep very well-nourished.Around midnight, he awoke and ate a little more, until he fell asleep again.When the morning rose, the jaguar went to hunt. The boy followed him for a long while, then he climbed a tree and waited for him to come back.education and for projects of economic self-sustainment, directed to the responsible organizations and creating new conflicts of identity, especially for the young indigenous.

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The Flight of the blue Macaw

André, aged thirteen, is absolutely charmed by Lia, his new neighbour. The young woman recently moved into the house next door together with her husband and her uncle. To spend as much time as possible with his new friend, André even gets up for school in time and accompanies her to the bus stop. During their long conversations, the young nurse tells him that it’s her dream to study and become a barefoot doctor as there are in China.At the same time, the presence of the military dictatorship becomes more and more obvious, for example when André and his father are being controlled with their car by the military police. Then one day, André e finds out that Lia an her husband are involved into a clandestine resistance group against the military regime. To save Lia and her comrades from being caught by the military police, André takes a very high risk.When the police comes during the night to hunt the neighbours’ house, they have already gone, but the police shoot André’s parrot that has been scared up by the light and the noise in the middle of the night...The novel is told by the adult André who meanwhile has become a journalist and meets Alfredo, Lia’s husband, many years later, always remembering his feelings and thoughts as a teenager. The narration is completed by the comic strips André had drawn in his teenage days and an authentic political pamphlet that plays a crucial role in the story.By choosing a teenager’s perspective, Maria José Silveira poses paramount questions about dictatorships, making the general information accessible to young people.

Maria José Silveira, besides being an author, works as editor and anthropologist. She has a master degree in Political Sciences. Her books have won several awards such as the seal “Highly recommended” by the Brazilian IBBY Section.

A moving coming-of-age story about young love and political resistance during the military regime in Brazil, putting up some universal questions about the individual’s role in a dictatorship.

Written by Maria José SilveiraComic strips illustrations by Maria Valentina






authentic political pamphlet

comic strips

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How Does It Begin?

This picture book presents an intriguing theme: How does each thing begin? And how does it end?

Written in verses with stunning illustrations, How Does It Begin invites children to think about the world through poetry in an easy yet philosophical way. It presents issues that may seem simple, but can lead to interesting contemplations. “Certain things do not always begin by being what they are: The chick begins as an egg; the frog as a tadpole; and the butterfly as a caterpillar.”


Written by Silvana TavanoComic strips illustrations by Elma


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Time Machines

Things are not exactly what they seem!

Nowadays, children use the computer for almost everything. They listen to music, talk to friends, do homework, and much more. But do they know how their grandparents did all this when they were young? Time Machines is an entertaining story about how since things aren’t always exactly what they seem, there really is more than one way to learn how to do them.


Written and illustrated by Romont Willy


World rights available except for Danish and Korean


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Lino

It all starts when Moon vanishes from the toy factory.

Lino the pig and Moon the rabbit have always been good friends, so when Moon suddenly disappears, Lino is devastated. One day, Lino is boxed up and sent to a little girl’s house. Eventually, playing with her cheers him up. Then, one night, she gives him the biggest surprise of all: She points to the window and Lino sees Moon ...


Written and illustrated by André Neves


World rights available except for Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese

An elephant shows up in the city out of the blue and jumbles up everyone’s life.

Cops, firefighters, news teams, and even the veterinarian show up to try to keep the peace, but no one knows how to handle their huge visitor. It strolls right through the city toward the park, indifferent to the attention, stopping traffic along the way. When it finally reaches the park, it heads straight to the lake and dives inside. What is the elephant up to? What will happen next?

ENGLISHTEXT AVAILABLEWho Lost an Elephant?

Written by Cristina VonIllustrated by Carla Irustra


World rights available except for Chinese and Korean

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Where does happiness come from?

There once was a woman who was laughing and singing and happy all the time. Life was really great for her! One day, her three neighbors noticed she was using a watermelon as a hat. Was that her secret? Was that what made her so happy? Happiness Is a Watermelon on Your Head is a delightful story about finding your own happiness.

ENGLISHTEXT AVAILABLEHappiness Is a Watermelon on Your Head

Written and illustrated by Stella Dreiss


World rights available except for English and French

The Princess who Saved Princes

Princes have been saving princesses for years on end, but they’ve had enough. Now they’re the ones that want to be saved.

In this modern fairy tale, the princess is not helpless, does not faint when faced by dragons, and is never locked in a tower. Against all expectations, she invades the Witch’s bedroom and confronts paintings with real eyes and mouths just to save the prince. But will she be able to do it? Can the princess save her beloved prince in the end?

Written by Claudia SouzaIllustrated by Christelle Ammirati


World rights available except for English and Italian


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Two Crocodiles Live Inside This Book

A book about children’s fears with some very original illustrations

Are you afraid of snakes? What about sharks? Or clowns? The dark? Heights? What are you afraid of? I’m not afraid of anything, but the crocodiles that live in this book are scary. Inside this book live two enormous crocodiles. Come find out!


Written by Claudia SouzaIllustrated by Ionit Zilberman


World rights available except for Korean, Spanish, and Chinese

Have you met Joana?

Joana is a cute little girl who cares a lot about her family – and Joana as well ...

Two girls meet and discover that they share the same name. Join the two Joanas as they get to know each and discover that they have much more in common than just a name.


Written and illustrated by Maria Eugenia


World rights available except for Italian and Spanish

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Grandma’s Nose

Written and illustrated by Eva Santana


World rights available except for Catalan

One day, Joana heard a strange conversation between her mother and a neighbor that baffled her. The women claimed that Joana had her grandma’s nose. Even though she couldn’t remember taking it, Joana searched the house high and low in hopes of finding the missing nose. Then, suddenly, she stumbled upon a photograph of her grandma and finally discovered she really did have her nose ...

Eva Santana was born in Badalona, near Barcelona, on a stormy night in July. She works as an editor for two children magazines and as an author and illustrator of children’s books.When she was a child, she used to walk in the streets while reading a book, colliding with the streetlights and, more than once, she broke her glasses! Grandma’s nose is her first book in Brazil.

This story is a play on the fact that children take things literally


Prizes

IBBY - Outstanding Books for Young Readers with Disabilities award

FNLIJ - Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil - Brazil

Translation Grant from Brazil’s National Library Foundation

Brazil’s National Library Foundation, an office of the Ministry of Culture, has created the Support Program for the Translations and Publications of Brazilian Authors Abroad in order to foster a greater presence of works of local literature in foreign publishing company’s catalogs and in bookstore shelves and virtual bookshelves throughout the world. Founded with the aim of promoting Brazil’s literature and culture all over the world, the Program offers a variety of patronage incentives to publishing companies. These incentives include financial support for the translation of Brazilian literary works from all genres, as well as support for the launching of reissues of books previously published abroad. It is the largest investment ever made by the Brazilian government to encourage the presence of works of literature from Brazil in the international publishing market. And the good news is there is no deadline, the program will be open for applications continuously until the year 2020.Who is eligible for the program: Companies that have acquired publishing rights of Brazilian authors.

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