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Next to the swallow

  • Golondrina Text and images: Iñigo Mikel Mendibil Ainzua Among them, 2012.
“On the cliff, a nest of straw and clay has been filled with life as in spring. The nest keeps the casings of five eggs, which grow warm and sweet. Beware! A small spike has broken the egg shell!”

This is how the story begins to tell the first days of this small, adventurous swallow. The baby chita will see the sea, the butterfly placed at its peak, the lizard that goes down the wall… Once in the nest, the drolite will discover a world and from that little world will jump into the big world when it starts to fly. So the

argument in this book is how the world discovers small swallows, colors, animals, places and different situations and, finally, a wonderful place where there's a lot of food. At the end of the trip, the swallow returns to her nest and communicates her trip to her relatives: “Following the river, our little bird has easily returned home and her relatives have taken a joy. He tells them his deeds and when he describes the beautiful lake full of food, they decide to go and live

there.” But the book, rather than by text, tells us the story through images. Through realistic and spectacular images, Mikel Mendibil offers us very different and beautiful visions of reality. At first, the nest appears on a cliff, and from above you can see the eggs inside the nest, and next to the ravine, the wall, to the sea. In the journey of swallows something similar happens, a wonderful lake, full of color, as we can find, we have the image that offers us the big head of the cow; that is, an image made from the point of view of swallows; and so, while the narrator (as we have seen previously in third person) tells us the story, we fly with the swallow and see what they see ojos.Aunque


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