Refugee is a marvellous picture book to raise the awareness of the whole family about the plight of refugees, perfect for understanding their painful reality and to explain it to young children. “Why have they woken me up in such a rush? It is still dark outside. We leave carrying only a few things. We are not going for a day out. Everyone looks scared and sad. I’m scared. Dad holds my hand tightly. It hurts. I feel like crying. But I don’t. Where are we going? Why are we running away?” These are some of the questions posed by the protagonist of this storywith so much reality in it. Author Tessa Julià and illustrator Anna Gordillo have joined forces to present us with a beautiful yet unsettling picturebook about the crude reality faced by refugees, but offering a glimmer of hope. Part of the profits generated from the sales of the Spanish and Catalan editions will be donated to Open Arms, a non governmental organisation dedicated to helping refugees.

A dystopia set in a cruel but familiar society. A choral story in which characters will have to confront moral dilemmas that will put them to the test. In heaven, an accountant points out that the world’s population is about to reach its limit, ten billion people. Everybody works quickly because they know the least productive suburb will be plowed through, and all its residents annihilated. The only way to escape the plow for good is to go from being a Breu to an Etern and enter the Eternal City, where life can be extended indefinitely through the injection of a cure. Hunter thinks he has found a way to resist the plow and infiltrate the city, destroying a system that condemns them to live either as slaves or as fertilizer. But, is he up to the task? Compelling, dizzying, heartrending. Get ready for a dystopian world full of betrayal and lies, headed by a fierce protagonist willing to do anything to survive. You won’t be able to put it down . Cristina Ropero Born to be Brief introduces us to a pitiless world that, despite everything, you won’t want toleave. An addictive story about a society in which we would rather not see ourselves reflected. Laia Soler

The Chameleon looks curiously at the world around him. Little by little he mimics  the colours of a ladybug, a leaf, a butterfly, a cloud … In the No Words series, each book has an early age concept: shapes, colours, contraries, and telling astory to introduce and explain the concept as well as introduce storytelling to the small ones.   I Want the Moon is focused on teaching the different shapes: square, circle, triangle… through comparing them with real objects from our day to day life. Solely through illustration this series allows for multiple readings, as the story can be told different ways and also the children can start to make up their own. A great asset to the series is that each book is independent and also illustrated by different artists, each one of them, renown in the field

Nicolàs, a nine-year-old boy, goes sailing with his parents only to find he is bored! They never have any fun and his parents are always arguing. So one day, Nicolás decides to set sail in one of the lifeboats to a tiny island. There, he writes about his adventures. More and more children come to the island, the adults can do nothing about it, and things get worse and worse – or perhaps better and better! A funny story that shows how children act out the adult world and mimic society. A story composed entirely of letters which make you laugh and think at the same time.