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