Libresa

LIBRESA PUBLICATIONS

SAMPLE CATALOG

This catalogue presents English-language summaries of a representative cross-section of the children’s books offered by LIBRESA, an Ecuadorian publisher, and heir to a tradition that binds the world of books, education and culture since 1927.

Since its inception, libresa has worked on two fronts: the production of texts for the main areas of curriculum of primary schools, and the production of various literature collections for children, youth and adults.

In nearly 25 years of existence in its current form, it has participated in various international book fairs such as: Guadalajara, Mexico, Frankfurt, Germany, Miami, US, and Barcelona, Spain.

Convinced of the importance of reading in the formative process of our children and youth, in June 1998, LIBRESA established the "Julio C. Coba ", International Children's Literature Contest aimed at stimulating literature characterized by high literary qualities and fostering human values.

Following is a sampler of titles within four of the 16 collections offered by LIBRESA

NOTE: These books are in Spanish but translations into English are available

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Garabato Collection

Garabato is a collection of LIBRESA literature aimed at the youngest readers. The text of these stories is brief, funny and profound. The topics addressed have enormous significance in the psychological lives of children and emphasize - in subtle and implicit ways - the cultivation of universal human values.

Another attraction of this series is given by the originality and beauty of its design and illustration.

Half the World Collection

Offers some of the most relevant works of contemporary children’s fiction

from Ecuador and the world, acknowledged by recognized critics, unanimously accepted by boys and girls, and enriched by alluring illustrations.

Sun Country Collection

Sun Country is the collection of works written for young people of all ages - it includes such varied topics as biographies and history, the exciting horizon of science and technology, our inner being, and the endless experiences of youth.

Perennial Classics

In this collection, there are texts that have transcended time and remain current by the literary mastery of their authors and the validity of their human values.

The adaptations have been carefully prepared, respecting the original spirit that animated them. Each book contains proposals for working with students around the corresponding text.

Garabato Collection

Another attraction of this series is given by the originality and beauty of its design and illustration.

Martina Espadachini’s Family

Lilia Garcia B.

This work won the 2007 Julio C. Coba International LIBRESA Children's Contest, and stands out for its originality, since it offers the young reader two opportunities: first, indirectly, to attend a circus performance, and the second, viewing it from the inside through the eyes of a girl who was born and lives in the circus world.

Have You Heard of Fear?

Jorge Luis Pena Helier Batista Hernandez.

From the fear of shadows, or a black cat, to a scolding for not cleaning your plate or not brushing your teeth, the fear of dogs, or injections, or crossing the street… Those fears appear to be typical only of children.

And the other fear, is the one that appears in the eyes of a coward. That is what is spoken about in this beautifully illustrated album.

The Romance Of the Indiferent Princess

Soledad Cordova

Is a story told in verse: Princess Aurora is sad and bored. The king wants to make her happy and calls in the musicians, jugglers and buffoons, but the princess is indifferent. Princes and kings come and go, but they are seen as stupid and ugly. Then, one day the princess finds a dried lemon tree and is moved; she waters it and removes the dried leaves. Now, every day she rises to see her tree ... and Manuel, the gardener.

Nursemaid From the Moon

Ainara Herrera Celaya

This is an illustrated album, a song to a baby who was born on the slopes of the Moon and that "hides its feet at the doorway to heaven." It is a modern story of a beautiful nursemaid full of tenderness and maternal love. Ideally it is to be read and sung by and for, small children illustrated differently and suggestively.

Other titles in the collection

• Is Anyone Here?

• To Margarita

• Grandmother Sisa

• The Rainbow That Lost a Color

• The King's Whiskers

• Witches

• The Curious Crab

• A Piglet in Love

• What Must I Do Not to Forget You

• Contagion

• When Monsters Attack

• A Story That Is Not an Invention

• Two Rhymed Stories

• The Cat and the Devil

• The Little Sparrow

• Thanks

• Dorado and Sebastian’s Histories

• Juan and the Monster

• Carolina and Gaspar’s Games

• Grandmothers’ Eyeglasses

• And many more

Half the World Collection

Offers some of the most relevant works of contemporary children’s fiction from Ecuador and the world, acknowledged by recognized critics, unanimously accepted by boys and girls, and enriched by alluring illustrations.

I hate books

Soledad Cordova

Miguel is ten years old, is sick and hates books because the language teacher forces them to learn horrible poems and read horrible books. But the teacher marries and leaves the school, never to return. She is replaced by a young teacher who knows that children can have fun with beautiful books.

The World's Longest Kiss

Ricardo Chavez Castaneda

In different versions, the story is told of the world's longest kiss, from an accidental one, offering a child an experience of an emotion never felt before, to one that reflects a caring world with which we all engage sometime: one that allows the discovery that it is not faith, but love, that moves mountains.

Other Titles in the collection

• My Grandma’s Trip

• Tiquiriquití, Tiquiriquitó

• The Marvelous Story of Maisa the Pig

And many, many more

Sun Country Collection

Enjoy Your Freedom and Other Hunches

Antonio Orlando Rodriguez

Six stories with student participants who discover love, escape from school, arriving late to class every day and hate or love their teachers. The characters move quickly from one adventure to another story while they suffer, have fun and realize that the world of young people is very complicated ... A critical fun book, with a conspiratorial wink to teenagers today.

My Brother’s Girlfriend

Gerardo Meneses

Two thirteen- and fourteen-year-old brothers, share their lives in middle school classrooms, as they always had in primary school. Only that Alejandro, the younger, no longer is so close to his brother because he initiates a close friendship with Paul, a boy who despite being lame, with a paralyzed arm, is a Paralympics swimming champion.

The birth of love, the death of friend, and experiences of school life fill the pages of this beautiful book.

And if November Passes Without Seeing You?

Eduardo Dayan

Alejandra and Claudio are in the final year of high school, but they are not companions since their breakup, and he studies at another school. But the two very much need each other. For Alejandra school has but a single novelty: the arrival of a teacher who teaches literature differently; Monica, is single and mature who loves writing and reading, and yearns to experience love.

Ronaldinho

Jordi Sierra i Fabra

The author recreates the life of this extraordinary figure, who has been recognized as the best player in the world: Ronaldo de Assis Moreira - better known as Ronaldinho - from his early years with his family in Porto Alegre, Brazil until he become the icon of the Barcelona Football Club of Spain. The book highlights the personal values that have made him an idol throughout the world.

It Was Meant Only As a Joke

David Jorajuria

It tells a story featuring a group of mid-adolescent girls and boys, on the completion of the school year, visit the beach. A joke leads to the actual death of one of their colleagues. The book is not intended to be instructive or "give messages. It presents the literary theme so that young people can reflect on it.

OtherTitles in the collection

• Gold in the Jungle

• Christopher Columbus

• Stories

• Bolivar Counting the Youth

• Darkie

• I Have Seven Lives

• Red Hot Ecology

• Guaminiquinaje

• Enjoy Your Freedom

• It Was to Be Just a Joke

• Dreams Warmly Strawberry

• The Ice Flowers

• Ronaldinho, The Heart of a Smile

• The Seventh Passenger and Other Stories

• The Long Journey of Yabal

• Hello Neuron

• My Brother’s Girlfriend

• What Happens If November Passes and We Do Not See Each Other?

• The Game Is Over

• With the Wings of the Wind

Perennial Classics

In this collection, there are texts that have transcended time and remain current by the literary mastery of their authors and the validity of their human values.

The adaptations have been carefully prepared, respecting the original spirit that animated them. Each book contains proposals for working with students around the corresponding text.

Heart

Edmundo de Amicis

This is the diary Enrico, a third grade child. It narrates what happens during the school year, with all such acts and events - large or small, noble or cruel - that happen in any school. He also transcribes the monthly stories told by his teacher to the students. The vision of adults of the era is reflected in the letters that his father and his mother occasionally write to him.

Cumandá

Juan Leon Mera

It is a story that takes place in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle. Cu-mandá and Carlos, blood siblings who forget such a blood relation, and after many years, meet again in the middle of the jungle, and fall in love with each other. The romance ends when they learn of their kinship. As a backdrop to the story, there are magnificent illustrations of the jungle landscape and of indigenous customs.

María

Jorge Isaacs

Young Ephraim, following a six-year absence returns to the paternal home after completing his studies at a college in the capital. He falls in love with his orphan cousin María, who has become a beautiful teenager and lives in the same house and. The two youths then engage in a passionate idyll, that the father decides to terminate by sending his son to London to study medicine.

Don Segundo Sombra

Ricardo Güiraldes

Don Segundo Sombra is an almost mythical nomadic gaucho, converted by the people of the argentine pampas in a sort of symbol, because of his extraordinary character: serious, noble, and strong. When he passes through the village where a boy lives with some aunts who mistreat him. The youth does not hesitate to ask the gaucho to take him with him and teach him the tough job of herdsman. He thus becomes, not only his companion in wandering the pampas, but also is the chronicler of his past and present life.

Other Titles in the collection

• Little Women

• Heidi

• Heart

• Alice in Wonderland

• Around the World in 80 Days

• From the Earth to the Moon

• Oliver Twist

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

• Genevieve Brabant

• Dona Barbara

• Platero and Me

• The Old Man And The Sea

• The Poem of Mine Cid

• Lazarillo De Tormes

• The Little Prince

• The Odyssey

• The Iliad

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Fables Author Of Artwork

• Hispano-American Author’s Fables

• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

• Classic Authors Fables

• Man

• The Wonderful Journey of Nils Holgersson

• The Prince and the Beggar

• The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

• The Three Musketeers

• The Book of the Virgin Lands

• Pirates of Malaysia

• The Last of the Mahican

• Treasure Island

• Ben-Hur

• King Solomon's Mines

• Peter Pan

• Ecuadorian Fables

• Papaito Long Legs

• Gulliver's Travels

• Marcelino Bread and Wine

• The Blue Bird

• Flower Legends

• Child Scribe in Florence

• The Adventures Of Pinocchio

• The Call Of The Jungle

• The Thousand and One Nights

• Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacaseno

• The Wizard of Oz

• Moby Dick

• Christmas Song

• Tartarín of Tarascon

• Beauty and the Beast

• Don Quixote

• The Beetle Gold

• Hump Ntra. Mrs. Paris

• Manuscript Found in a Bottle

• Sandokan, Tiger of Malaysia

• A Yankee in King Arthur Court

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Robin Hood

• Kolstomero

• Three Men in a Boat

• A Tale of Two Cities

• Dracula

• Quo Vadis

• Frankenstein

• Ivanhoe

• David Copperfield

• Prisoner of Zenda

• White Fang

• Legends

• The Black Tulip

• Tales of the Jungle

• The Morgue Double Crime on the Streets

• The Ghost of Canterville

• Cyrano De Bergerac

• William Tell

• Heroic Legends Time (Selec.)

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• The Wise Judge

• Sinbad the Sailor

• The Adventures of Marco Polo

• The black cat / Charter stolen

• The Portrait of Dorian Gray

English Language Titles

· Boboo the multicolored booby

· The curious crab

· Is somebody here?

· It’s catching

· The little toad that sang to the moon

· My friend grandfather

· The ovenbird’s nest

· What must i do so I don’t for get you?

· When monsters attack