In this work, written by Iñaki Zubeldia and illustrated by Estibada Jalón, the stories of a chicha narrator appear: “A long time ago, on a mountain lawn, there lived an old chicha. Her name was Catherine and she was very talkative.” In addition to the charlatan, we have an extraordinary storyteller chicha, so he tells us two stories, the first one about the mantango grannies and the second one about the butterfly. But in one case or another, Catalina won’t listen to him, even though Rebel asks for the tale of the trotters. We will explain how the hangouts became mutiny in this context, and how Catalina took this fact after apologizing to the hangover in her collection of stories.

The reader will thus receive three different stories within one. Of animals – mantangeros, butterflies, grasshoppers – but all entertaining little bugs, all different but at the same time similar. Imagination and warmth have been used to create stories and imagination and vitality to make images.

Although the text of this book has autonomy and allows us to understand and enjoy the story by reading it alone, the reading with the interpretation of the images is much richer. Estibald Jalón has given humanity to these bugs without losing the character of bugs that resemble people; in this way Catalín will have the appearance of a grandmother, but the crotches of an elegant young man, the butterflies of a shy girl (?) Looks like one, and the robe is a naughty boy. And so, being in the world of bugs – for which the presence of nature is evident and constant through herbs, leaves, branches and flowers – one feels this world very close.

We must praise Jalón’s work in this regard. If in recent years there have been innovations in Basque children's and young people's literature, this has come more from female illustrators. There are some illustrators – I would say almost all women – who are doing a very innovative and interesting work in Basque letters, and we have this book as an example. But we must also not forget that in the previous and subsequent prizes of this work that won the Etxepare Prize – Circus dreaming, and the new work that will be published next fall – the illustrators are women.

This book of Katalin narrators has it from tradition – from the tradition of allegiances, from the tradition of concatenating others within a story, from fantasy... but also from modernity; but above all from warmth and imagination; a book to tell the listener and delight readers; a work of enjoying with eyes and ears.