Cuatrogatos Foundation Award

Awarded books

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  Montañas en la cama

  Marí­a Molina (Maricuela)

  Ilustraciones de Sonja Wimmer

  Colección Q

  Pontevedra: OQO Editora, 2013

  Libro álbum

  For the little ones who can ™t read

  ISBN: 978-84-9871-443-2

  Making love in the privacy of a room and climbing a steep mountain can have several things in common - especially if there is a small child willing to invent explanations for facts about those who do not usually talk The parents during their dialogues with the children. The subject of sexual relations between adult couples as a physical expression of love is recreated humorously in this story from the naivete of a child and supported by illustrations of great communicative effectiveness.

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  La niña, el corazón y la casa

  Marí­a Teresa Andruetto 

  Colección Frontera 

  Bogotá: Babel, 2012 

  Novel

  For those who became great readers

  ISBN: 978-958-8445-45-8

  Novel that investigates in the child's eyes on the relationships of adults. The authenticity and grandeur of Tina's feelings, a girl who can only see her mother and her brother on Sunday on Sunday, will enable the miracle of founding a new existence for a family marked by pain, guilt and separation. Sentimental, but without a hint of sentimentality, this little great novel is high-flying literature that deserves to be read by young people, adults and all those capable of resonating with a history and characters of deep humanism.

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  Papá y yo, a veces

  Marí­a Wernicke 

  Colección Lí­neas de arena 

  Buenos Aires: Calibroscopio, 2013 

  Picture book

  For those who start reading

  ISBN: 978-987-1801-61-9

  Picture book that approaches, from a minimalist and lyrical perspective, the bonds of a girl and her father within a rich and dissimilar affective universe. The work underlines the value of both the enriching moments shared, and those not less important, that privilege solitude, recollection and introspection. The text and the drawings in black and white bet on a synthesis that emphasizes dialogues, expressive silences, discoveries, love, respect and complicity.

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  Prohibido leer a Lewis Carroll

  Diego Arboleda 

  Ilustraciones de Raúl Sagospe 

  Madrid: Anaya, 2013 

  Novel
  

  For those who took off as readers

  ISBN: 978-84-678-4012-4

  Sustained exercise of surrealist fable built around the legacy of writer Lewis Carroll and the figure of his muse Alice Liddell. Eccentric and hyperbolic characters, a plot as crazy as well woven and a suggestive network of cultural and historical references, becomes a fun tribute to the senseless. Reading as a possibility to recreate and inhabit fantastic scenarios.

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  Soldados en la lluvia

  Toño Malpica 

  Ilustraciones de Marí­a Teresa Devia;

  Colección Torre de papel, serie amarilla

  Bogotá: Norma, 2013

  Novel

  For those who became great readers

  ISBN: 978-958-45-4131-4

  Two children, a dying old man and a persecuted man coincide between the four walls of a humble dwelling in a forgotten village. As a backdrop, the last times of the Mexican Revolution, a bloody and confused time, in which few remember or know the reasons why they make war. Psychological complexity and careful composition in a novel for young readers that connects with a significant slope of the history of Mexican narrative.

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  Tiquititán de poemas

  Selección de Marí­a Elena Maggi y Marí­a Francisca Mayobre 

  Ilustraciones de Ana Palmero Cáceres 

  Caracas / Barcelona: Ekaré, 2013  

  Poetry

  For those who took off as readers

  ISBN: 978-980-257-356-1

  Anthology of verses for children supported by cheerful, luminous and eurhythmic illustrations that recreate a diversity of characters and settings. Initiation in the most select of Venezuelan poetry for children, through a tour that allows to appreciate the work of authors of the twentieth century. Invitation to explore rhythms and cadences; To discover poetry as a welcoming space, playful and spiritual enrichment.