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by Annamaria Piccione (Author), Luis Amavisca (Author), Francesc Rovira (Illustrator)
Una niña y un niño se encuentran mientras huyen de la destrucción y la soledad de las bombas y la guerra. Solo los acompañan sus peluches y sus mochilas, llenas de recuerdos.
Abril debe abandonar las ruinas y la soledad que ha dejado la guerra y buscar un nuevo hogar. Solo lleva su mochila, llena de recuerdos.
Tras caminar bajo lluvia y nieve, se encuentra con otro niño, Julio. Juntos escalan montañas y duermen en casas abandonadas, hasta que llegan al mar. Sin rendirse, emprenden un nuevo y arriesgado viaje en busca de una oportunidad.
Un álbum para hablar de una realidad, por desgracia, demasiado común: cómo las guerras obligan a muchas niñas y niños, que se han quedado solos, a abandonar sus hogares y viajar hacia lo desconocido.
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While fleeing the destruction and loneliness of bombs and war, Abril meets Julio, another child who has lost everything. They are accompanied only by their stuffed animals and their backpacks, full of memories.
Abril runs away from the ruins and loneliness left by the war in search of a new home. She carries with her only her stuffed animal, Coco, and her backpack, full of memories.
After walking through rain and snow, she meets another child, Julio. Together, they climb mountains and sleep in abandoned houses, until they reach the sea. Never giving up hope, they embark on a dangerous journey towards a new beginning.
An important book to help talk about the consequences of war and the experiences of refugees.
Author Biography
Annamaria Piccione was born in Syracuse (Italy) in 1964 and has been writing children's books and plays since the 1990s. She has published over 100 books on various topics, including gastronomy and popular traditions, but prefers social themes, such as the fight against the mafia, immigration, and interculturalism. Her books have been translated into several languages. She lives between Syracuse and Palermo with five cats and two dogs. Children call her "the cat lady."
Luis Amavisca is a well-known visual artist and children´s writer in Spain. He has worked and written about equality, solidarity, environment and non-violence. His Bang Bang I Hurt the Moon was runner-up for the Most Inspirational Children's Picture Book in the International Latino Book Awards. He is the author, along with Alicia Acosta, of two highly successful co-education books: I Love My Colorful Nails and Benji's Doll.
Francesc Rovira began his professional career in 1982, illustrating what would become his first book. Since then he has dedicated himself professionally to the world of illustration, primarily for children and young people, creating drawings for magazines, textbooks, and stories for various publishers.
In addition to his work as an illustrator, with more than four hundred books published and translated into several languages, he contributes to all types of publications and holds regular exhibitions, both collective and solo, of published and unpublished works.
