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| Free download of Bloc #0 (PDF) |  Since the Bloc #0 (fall 2007) is out of print, and many people are still continue to request, we offer you the possibility to download it in PDF format.
Although this is not the best way to read a magazine like this -where touch, texture and weight are so importante elements-, is better than nothing.
Bloc #0 (PDF, 8 Mb)  |  | | Creation: Marina Colasanti and Pablo Auladell | | Text and image, the two differentiated elements that constitute the product of the children's literature which are offered for consideration to the person that looks and reads in order to think and learn what they both offer. |  This is the literature of Marina Colasanti, a writer who pays attention to the small, which, in a literary vicinity, becomes gigantic. Creator of fantastic worlds inhabited by the enchantment of the familiar.
The table on which we write is, in our view, flat, further, if we contemplate it on a microscopic scale we see it is uneven; that it has high mountains and deep valleys, that the millimetric spaces of our macroscopic vision become long, harsh plains which we have to cross in order to reach the mountain range that we see in the distance, plains that separate us from the ample horizons that feed our dreams.
Download PDF | | | Out of the ivory tower. Interview with Jutta Bauer | | «I think if anyone works only with books, in the end they loose any type of contact with reality...» |  It is very strange, as if our feet know the way. It must be that red brick refurbished building that, surely was built for industrial use in the nineteenth century. It is L-shaped and situated on the banks of a canal along which, from time to time a boat passes. Going round the building, bright colours in the windows announce the presence of a kindergarten. On the left hand panel of the entrance appear the full names of four people, the first is Jutta Bauer, this is where he has his studio and where we have arranged a meeting. We go up the stairs to the top floor, the walls tell us the story of the building and of its inhabitants. When we ring the bell nobody answers. Soon somebody opens the street door and hurries upstairs. It must be her.
Download PDF | | | Little Friday. Interview with Michel Tournier | | «The best writers are those that write so well than even a child can read them.» |  We arrive at the local train station and, in no time Michel Tourniers car appears. He greets us in such a friendly manner that it does not seem like our first visit to the rectory of the village in which he has lived and written for the last thirty years. The contrast between our admiration and his simplicity was noticeable.
Michel Tournier is one of the great literary figures. And not because he has written a lot. On the contrary, he has written little, he has always taken his time, and he began writing late. His two first novels, Friday or the Limbos of the Pacific and The King of the Alders, obtained two of the most prestigious prizes in France. And his Friday or the Savage Life is one of those books that children and adults should have in their hands at least once in a life time. Tournier is a writer philosopher who has always searched for great subjects to make his readers reflect, what ever their age. And this is also what distinguishes him from other writers. There have been many «Fridays» in literature ever since Defoe created the fictional character that became a symbol, a human archetype and a literary myth throughout history. And Tournier didn’t only have the boldness to write of a Friday but to write of two: one more tormented, doubtful, reflective, full of words; the other, naked, more simple, concise in his language and thought, destined to be read and understood by everyone, including children. In all his work, in some way the influence of these «Fridays» is observed.
Download PDF | | | The soul of a design. Interview with Manuel Estrada | | «Banality must not become the dominant element in the landscape of design.» |  It is now night in the street and it’s raining. We enter the building and walk up a few floors, to the door of Manuel Estrada’s studio. A young woman in jeans and a tshirt, opens the door of the flat which is part of a turn-of-the-last-century building in the «popular» area of the «barrio de Salamanca». In the small entrance there are some modern folding bikes. On the left, behind a door of wood and glass, some tables with computers and two or three young men sitting at work. The woman invites us to wait for the designer in his office and, at a round table opposite his desk, we sit down.
Download PDF | | | In remembrance. Asun Balzola | | Three voices approach the life and the work of Asun Balzola (1942-2006), one of the most significant authors in the panorama of children's literature, in the Spain of late twentieth century |  There have been many Apel·les Mestres prizes –says the historian– but few like this one, which was awarded on the 6th of January of 1981, have stayed so long in the catalogue or have generated so many national repercussions. Even fewer have achieved continuity and kept their main character so alive. In this aspect Munia and the Moon has become more than an exceptional work, a work emblematic of its age, the early eighties, when all culture –and particularly children’s– seemed to be enjoying in Spain such an awakening. From this first title, published in 1981, followed Munia’s shoes (1983), Munia and Madame Piltronera (1984) and Munia and the Orange Cwocodile (1984). The four books seem to want to form a collection or series, with the same child protagonist, with whom we enjoy four impressions of her daily life.
Download PDF | | | Picture books' reviews | | This issue presents the impressions taken by our collaborators on some recent picture books. The intention is to encourage reflection on this genre. |  In this number, we review the next titles: The New Book of ABC (Karl Philipp Moritz/Wolf Erlbruch), Well Done, Rosina! (M.ª José Tomás/Claudio Muñoz), Tell Me a Picture (Quentin Blake), The Robin (Federico Delicado), I Don't Want To Do Anything. Nothing! (Lydia Zeller/Marion Goedelt), The Lead Soldier (Jörg Müller), Little Blue and Little Yellow (Leo Lionni), Guyi Guyi (Chih-Yuan Chen), Why We Live Outside the City (Peter Stamm/Jutta Bauer), Me (Philip Waechter).
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