El secret del Nadal (The Secret of Christmas)

Oriol Canosa, writer / Sònia González (Cuchu), illustrator

You would never guess who is really in charge of lighting up Christmas!

Synopsis

Getting ready for Christmas, last minute rushed and twists and turns in timely story for six-year-old readers.

It’s three days until Christmas and in the town of Bigtower everyone isbusy with the preparations. In this town lives the Bricó family, owners of ahardware store with thousands of objects in it and also the Mayor family,with a husband, a wife, who is the town’s mayor, four children and a butlercalled Travers. The two families are worried because the town’s square
Christmas tree doesn’t have any lights on yet. The Mayors are blaming the Bricós and the Bricós are blaming the Mayors. Each family thinks it’sthe other family’s job to light the tree. But they are wrong. Actually, thistask falls to another family, the Furets. They are not a regular family; they are a rat family! This year they haven’t been able to decorate the tree because there’s an owl lurking around. If they go out, it will eat them. But if they don’t go out… the tree will remain in the dark.

A sweet adventure that encourages empathy, teamwork, kindness and that breaks stereotypes!

Book info
Written by
Oriol Canosa
Age
6+
Illustrated by
Sònia González, Cuchu
Size
19,7 x 25,1 cm
Year of Publication
2019
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
64
Rights Sold
German (Coppenrath)
Russian (Ast)
Eslovenian (Hartman Publishers)
About the author

Oriol Canosa

Oriol Canosa (Tarragona, 1975) is a writer of children’s books, and bookseller   in a bookshop specialising in children’s and YA literature and gastronomy. He has published La casa del profesor Kürbis (Baula/Edelvives, 2013) and Apa! Et penses que ens ho creurem? (Cruïlla, 2015), as well as the children’s novels L’illa de les cartes perdudes (Babulinka, 2014) and El secret del Nadal (La Galera). Additionally, he won the Folch i Torres Award in 2016 with L’illa de Paidonèsia (La Galera). Apart from publishing short stories and novels for children, he has also contributed to children’s magazines. When he gets tired of books he goes out walking and has already crossed Europe on foot several times.

Featured author at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2021

 

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Sònia González (Cuchu)

Cuchu (Barcelona, 1977) is an illustrator and graphic designer who loves working in different mediums. She combines her work illustrating books with her graphic design, her art exhibitionsand her motion production.

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