nubeocho 2015 foreign rights catalog

Catalog Spring-summer 2015

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Picture Book

Raccoon Wants to Be FirstSusanna IsernIllustrated by Leire Salaberria

+4 years

14,90 €40 pages210 x 245 mm

Raccoon wants to be the first in everything, and he almost always succeeds at it. But one day, Fox arrives in the forest…

A fun adventure to teach us that “being first” is not the most important thing.Excessive competition can be negative and can sometimes bring anguish to children.From the child psychologist Susanna Isern, author of I was not invited to the birthday.

Themes: Competitiveness, jealousy, friendship, fun, adventure.

Álbum ilustradoPicture Book

The Journey of Captain Scaredy Cat

José Carlos AndrésIllustrated by Sonja Wimmer

+4 years

15,90 €40 pages250 x 290 mm

A funny story to help us overcome fear.The pirates come back to a marvellous illustrated album. From the author of Carlota Wouldn’t Say Boo.

Themes: Fear, laughter, pirates, fun, adventures.

Not long ago, and no one knows why, the captain started to be scared of everything –even of his shadow. In the Blue-eyed Ghost’s ship, Captain Scaredy Cat has to come face-to-face with a ghost, a vampire…and even a werewolf!

Picture Book

Tales and Exercises for Restless Kids

Aitor SaraibaIllustrated by the author

+6 years

12,90 €56 pages170 x 223 mm

22 micro tales + 22 exercises.

Open the book to any page. Each page tells you a micro-tale or offers you a fun exercise to do.

Enjoy a book in just one minute..

Themes: Fun, lack of attention, imagination, hyperactivity, poetry, equality.


The Legend of ZumTxabi ArnalIllustrated by Roger Olmos

+6 years

15,90 €44 pages220 x 285 mm

Every five years, a mysterious fog covered Zum throughout a whole night. At dawn the following morning, the fog would leave, taking with it: a song, the first flower of the season and the most disobedient child of the village.

After The Black Dog by Levi Pinfold, the NubeClásicos collection continues with a story about the power of friendship. The fantastic text of Txabi Arnal unites with the extraordinary pencils of Roger Olmos.

Themes: Friendship, mystery, fear, family, legend.

Picture Book

Carlota Wouldn’t Say BooJosé Carlos AndrésIllustrated by Emilio Urberuaga

+4 years

14,90 €40 pages210 x 245 mm

Childhood mutism and shyness are treated with humor by José Carlos Andrés and the Spanish National Illustrator’s Award winner Emilio Urberuaga.

Themes: Childhood mutism, laughter, shyness, fear, imaginary friend, family, love.

Little Carlotta is timid and afraid to speak. One day, by accident, she was locked inside the house’s pantry, alone, with only tomato cans and marmalade jars around her. Using her voice will be the only way to help her get out of there.


SearchingOlga de DiosIllustrated by the author

+3 years

14,90 €40 pages240 x 225 mm

Look & Find book. Its illustrations will help children learn to observe. They will also find vocabulary and numbers, as well as meet a lot of different characters. Do you feel like ‘’Searching’’?

Themes: Look and find, emotions, diversity, surprise, description, vocabulary.

SEARCHING is a story that helps us value what we have around us and sometimes fail to see.

Picture Book

I Was Not Invited to The BithdaySusanna IsernIllustrated by Adolfo Serra

+4 years

14,90 €40 páginas210 x 245 mm

The children leaving the school are all very excited. There is a birthday party, but someone is not invited...

To know that you are not invited to a birthday party can make you sad. How to face it when you feel excluded? This magical story helps us understand that we cannot have everything, and sometimes not having it all can be positive. From the child psychologist Susanna Isern, author of Raccoon Wants to Be First.

Themes: Friendship, exclusion, magic, adventure.


The GalinosLuis AmaviscaIllustrated by Noemí Villamuza

+4 years

15,90 €40 pages250 x 290 mm

A book to help us appreciate nature and feel the urgency to protect it through a fun adventure among a group of friends.

Themes: Nature, conservation, rivers, pollution, conservation, fun, action.

Come with us to the Planet Gala and discover all of its wonders: the galatrees, the galabars and the galacomputers...You will meet The Galinos, the special aliens who are trying to save their planet.

Picture Book

The Dream MakerLuis AmaviscaIllustrated by Fernando Gutiérrez

+3 years

11,90 €32 pages210 x 190 mm

Before we go to sleep, we will not be counting sheep. Let us count imaginary animals. A book that will help little children sleep through imagining different magical creatures.

A poetry for the moment before going to sleep. Fantastic animals and photo-luminescent illustrations.

Themes: Poetry, diversity, fantastic animals, tenderness.


The Duck-Legged PirateJosé Carlos AndrésIllustrated by Myriam Cameros

+3 years

15,90 €44 pages250 x 290 mm

A funny story to help us overcome fear.

Themes: Fear, laughter, pirates, fun, adventure.

Bittersoul was the scariest pirate of all the seas of the North, the South, the East, and the West. He was so scary that he didn’t even shave so that he would not have to look at himself in the mirror…

Picture Book

The Unknown Story of The Tooth FairyJosé Carlos AndrésIllustrated by Betania Zacarias

+4 years

14,90 €40 pages210 x 245 mm

Very few know the real story of the tooth Fairy.Could it have started in the deep sea?This story begins with an oyster who lost her precious pearl…

A hilarious story about what happens when you lose a tooth.

Themes: Tooth fairy, sharing, friendship, adventure, mysterious, fun.


A BoxMaría José BallesterosIllustrated by the author

+4 years

13,90 €40 pages190 x 210 mm

A box. You do not need anything else. A story about creativity and imagination..

Themes: Curiosity, family, respect for privacy, creativity.

One morning a couple of brothers from a circus family receive a very particular package, a magic box that they should not open before their father arrives.Meanwhile they wait, they imagine all the possibilities, characters and creatures that could fit in this magic box.

Picture Book

Grandpa’s SuitcaseJuan HernazIllustrated by Fátima Fernández

+6 years

15,90 €32 páginas215 x 285 mm

A story that touches on the issue of Alzheimer with delicacy and lyricism.

Themes: Old age, Alzheimer, family, tenderness, adventure, memory, grandparents.

Mariana and her grandfather set off on a journey by sea.An adventure into the depths ...boats, fish and a suitcase.Grandpa’s suitcase.


Princess Li lived with her father in a beautiful palace. Li was in love with Beatrice, a girl from a distant land.Both of them were very happy until the day her father sent for the princess: “The day had come on which Li had to marry a young man from the court”.

A traditional magic fairy tale... told differently. A tale of equality.

Themes: Equality, magic, other cultures, tale, love, sexual diversity.

Princess LiLuis AmaviscaIllustrated by Elena Rendeiro

+4 years

16,95 €44 pages240 x 250 mm

Picture Book

My Dad Is a ClownJosé Carlos AndrésIllustrated by Natalia Hernández

The other day at school, a classmate got angry at me and said: «Clown!»I thanked him and gave him a kiss.He did not understand a thing, but we became friends again.

Themes: Homoparental families, diversity, adventure, intrigue.

+4 years

16,95 €44 pages240 x 250 mm

The Magic PencilLuis AmaviscaIllustrated by Alicia Gómez Camus

One afternoon Margarita was eager to see her friends Daniel and Carlos. Together they went to the park and on the way they passed near Tick’s house. They could not imagine what was about to happen! The cat, the stange gifts…

A journey of sharing and imagination. A tale of friendship and equality.

Themes: Equality, homoparental families, magic, adventure, friendship.

+4 years

16,95 €48 pages240 x 250 mm

Fiction

ToletisVol. 1 & 2

Rafa RuizIllustrated byElena Hormiga

+8 years · 12,50 € · 154 pages · 160 x 210 mm

12 stories about Toletis and his friends in a small town, where nature is another main character.

Stories within an ecological setting that teach the value of landscape, climate, snow, fog and wind, trees and birds.

Themes: Environment, family, magic, adventures, imagination, animals, love.

Fiction

Greta And The Simba Yo-Yo Circus

Juana Cortés AmunarrizIllustrated by Jen del Pozo

+8 years · 9,90 € · 64 pages · 145 x 210 mm

Greta learns that she will have to repeat the school year. She feels anxious and no longer able to focus on anything else. Everything seems to go from bad to worse, until after school Greta arrives at the mysterious Simba Yo-Yo circus.

Themes: Academic failure, empathy, diversity, adventures.

Benita is the youngest of seven siblings. They all lived together with mum Alice, mum Alberta and grandpa. They were really happy. But everything changed when mum Alice disappeared.

Themes: Diversity, family, magic, love.

Benita And The Fairy Tangerine

Juana Cortés AmunarrizIllustrated by João Valente

+8 years · 9,90 € · 12,95 € · 88 pages · 160 x 230 mm

Fiction

THE ADVENTURES OF LUCY & JOEY

Elisa Vázquez. Illustrated by João Valente

Return to MountCrown. Book 2

When Lucy and Joey’s lives seemed to come back to normal, weird events will make them guess that the ’’Always Further’’ Country is in danger. Our friends will need to decipher mysterious enigmas and they will meet new characters.The magic awaits you behind the entrance door.

Wizards, Witches, Sorcerers, dragons… and a lot more that you will meet in the Adventures of Lucy and Joey.

Themes: Bullying, diversity, fantasy, Knights, dragons.

The Magic Potion. Book 1

Lucy is very short, Joey is very tall and kids at school make fun of them. One day, the new mysterious teacher at school proposes something that will change their lives: to travel during one night to another world in which they will get a potion that will give them their desired height.

+10 years · 10,50 € · 212/240 pages · 150 x 230 mm

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