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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 Rights sold in KOREA
The drop of water
Based on a text of Raimon Panikkar
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.
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.
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 Rights sold in FRANCE
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
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 “Mum, I can’t sleep tonight. I am Life is like a thread we walk on every
disconcert young readers and adults nervous and so many thoughts are day, taking one step after the other,
alike with his spontaneity and going through my mind.” “Let me climbing high and going down, facing
unhibitions, so similar to those of show you how to breathe…” the rain and the storms, getting lost
children. His stories go much further A beautifully illustrated picture book and crossing the path of people
than conventional jokes, they are an that will enable children to overcome putting us in the right direction…
example of the transforming power their anxieties through playful making each one of us a tightrope
of humor! breathing, stretching and relaxation walker in our own way.
Winner of the 2016 Children’s excercises they can relate to.
Literature Serra d’Or Critical Award Awarded “Best-edited books” of
(Spain) the Ministry of Culture of Spain 2016
Rights sold in ITALY, POLAND,
Rights sold in IRAN FRANCE & NORTH AMERICA Rights sold in CHINA & GERMANY
Inês Castel-Branco & Maria Ella Carrera Jordi Amenós & Albert Arrayás Ignasi Moreta & Àfrica Fanlo
Your song Where is the moon? The gentile and
There is a legend that says that in an One night, before going to bed, Pablo the three wise men
African tribe, when a woman discovers looks attentively at the moon for the
she is expecting, she rushes to tell the first time. He finds it so beautiful, Once upon a time there was a gentile,
others. A few days later, at sunrise, they magical, big and shiny. But a few days that is, a man who wasn’t practicing any
all get into the jungle to uncover, later he realises it’s getting smaller and religion. His way crossed the one of three
together, the song of the new child, smaller…until it disappears completely. wise men, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim.
the one they believe will accompany Where is it gone? Can his friends help As each of the three men tried to
him his own life. him solve the mystery? 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 KOREA & CHINA 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 “Where do the stars hide when the Can you do many things at once? It’s
has one distracted and one surprised day comes?” asks a little boy to his not so hard... Well, many, many years
eye and always walks around with an mum. “What if we asked this to the ago, in India, some men realized that
open mouth and his shirt soaked with silence?” she replies. In a sensitive doing many things at once was fairly
a trail of saliva falling down. Boney is and poetical text, reminiscent of Hai- easy but they wondered what would
a colourless scrwany fish that lives in kus, Nina da Lua takes us on a journey happen if they only did one thing, the
the fishes’ stall of a travelling funfair. through pain, separation, friendship, simplest, the most natural one of all:
One day the funfair moves into dreams, hope… silent situations in breathing… A beautiful introductory
Dripperlipper’s street… which stars hide. book to Yoga.
Rights sold in NORTH AMERICA,
ITALY & UKRAINIAAlain Allard & Mariona Cabassa Laia de Ahumada & Mercè López Marta Millà & Rebeca Luciani
Coming and The sixth sense Jatakas
Six budhist tales
Going Day Next to the five senses, we must
have another one that enables us to A long, long time ago, some very
For thousands of years people see, listen, smell, taste and feel what peculiar animals with magic powers
had been Nomads, following the we can not see with our eyes, our were born in Southeast Asia. They
rhythms of the earth, the passage of ears, our nose, our mouth or with the say that everywhere they went, they
the sun and the dance of time. Now, touch: the sixth sense. A beautifully transformed shadows into light. Six
however, they have houses and illustrated book about listening to beautifully illustrated Jatakas, old
barely move. But, each year, they what we feel inside, intuition and tales in which Budha and his disciples
keep on honoring their wandering sensitivity. transmit love and respect towards
roots in a communal Coming and their surroundings and others.
Going Day.
Rights sold in BRAZIL Rights sold in FRANCEAKIARA books, originally born in Barcelona three years ago under
the name of Pequeño Fragmenta, publishes beautifully-illustrated
children’s books focusing on spirituality, self-knowledge, tales from
other cultures, ecology, psychology, philosophy and mindfulness.
Inês Castel-Branco
ines@akiarabooks.com
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