El DÃ-A Mariquita Dibujã3 Una Pelusa Gigante (the Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff) - by José Carlos Román (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Everybody tells Ladybug her drawing is not an elephant, but a giant ball of fluff. But... is it? A pleasantly colorful book, printed in stone paper, that invites readers to be imaginative and creative.

In school, the forest children had fun discovering the names of distant jungles, jumping around in the schoolyard, learning new songs. Miss Dragonfly asked their students to draw an elephant as homework. Ladybug's friends Snail, Firefly and other colleagues were the first to show their masterpiece. Ladybug surprised everyone by drawing a giant ball of fluff.

There was no sign of the pachyderm! All the forest animals were worried: why would she have drawn something like that? Miss Dragonfly couldn't believe it, so she warned Ladybug's parents. It was not like her to do such thing... Who knows! Maybe she needed an ear exam... People in the forest started gossiping... But she could not be any healthier! Soon enough, Ladybug made it clear that perhaps they were wrong prejudging her creativity.

Mariquita dibuja un elefante precioso, pero los demás solo ven una pelusa gigante. Un libro lleno de color, impreso en papel de piedra, que invita a los lectores a creer en el poder de la imaginación y a ser creativos.

En la escuela, los niños del bosque se divierten descubriendo los nombres de selvas lejanas, saltando en el patio con sus compañeros, aprendiendo nuevas canciones. Doña Libélula, la maestra, pidió a sus alumnos que dibujaran un elefante como deberes. Los amigos de Mariquita, Caracol, Luciérnaga y otros de sus amigos fueron los primeros en enseñar su obra maestra delante de sus compañeros. Mariquita los sorprendió a todos cuando enseñó su dibujo: ¡una bola gigante de pelusa!

¡No había ni rastro del paquidermo! Todos los animales del bosque estaban preocupados: ¿por qué habría dibujado algo así? Doña Libélula no daba crédito, así que llamó inmediatamente a los padres de Mariquita y los avisó. No era propio de ella hacer semejante cosa... ¡Quién sabe! Quizás necesitaba que un médico, podría tener algún problemilla de audición. La gente del bosque empezó a chismorrear, ¡pero Mariquita estaba más sana que un roble! Muy pronto, Mariquita dejó en claro que tal vez los demás estaban equivocados al criticar su creatividad.

Review Quotes

"The authors empathize with young readers by weaving a sympathetic, structured story, where imagination and humor are the dominant premise. Combining collage and digital techniques, the result is a magnificent picture book." --Canal Lector

"...Aguirre's zesty illustrations perk everything up. Hilarious yet harmonious visual juxtapositions abound." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

The author José Carlos Román García was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. After graduating in Teaching and later in Pedagogy, he has for more than 20 years dedicated himself in body and soul to his great passion: Children's Education Teacher. Developing this professional work, he gradually entered the wonderful world of children's literature. A tireless reader of children's books and in continuous search for meaningful titles to take to the classroom to delight the little ones, little by little his interest in writing stories for children began to awaken and in 2016 he began his career in the publishing world with the publication of his first illustrated album.

The award winning illustrator Zuriñe Aguirre is a restless creator in love with colors. She was born and raised in Vitoria, Spain among waxes, tempera and colored pencils, where she took a Degree in Decoration. Years later she moved to France where she studied for a Diploma in Information and Communication Technologies at the Toulouse Le Mirail University. She continued to flirt with illustration and 13 years ago decided to devote herself to it. She lived for 16 years in Dos Hermanas, Sevilla and has continued to specialize in the field of Graphic Design and Illustration with a Postgraduate Degree in Advanced Design and Print Production. She likes lights and shadows, colors that convey joy and serenity, play with the silences and noises in the illustrations and the different challenges in each project. In love with the pattern design that applies to each illustration. She has published with Spanish, English, South Korean, New Zealand and North American publishers. She is a winner in 2016 of the prize for the best illustrations for poetry at BookILL Fest, Serbia. And selected, among others, 3 consecutive years at Sharjah International Book Fair, United Arab Emirates. She was a finalist in the Euskadi Literary Awards and participant in numerous collective exhibitions. While illustrating albums for children, she also enjoys teaching University Extension Courses on Child Illustration and Pattern Design at the University of Fine Arts in Seville.