Also of others
The Garlic, the Zapatero, the Egg of the Bird, the King and the Salt, the Dog of the Miller and the Singing Bird. Those are the five stories that Juan Kruz Igerabide has collected and molded for this new collection.
“Stories live in the world, moving from one country to another, transforming from one language to another, synthesizing, spreading, mixing with other stories.” This is the first sentence of the book, which tells us the rich and varied origin of popular stories. And later, as he recognizes in this foreword, these stories “are written as we tell them in our house,” knowing that there may be many variations of them. Between the versions of the story The King and the Salt, for example, Joxe Arratibel got us the famous Marixor. In the latter, as indicated in the preamble, “his suit was linen at first, then silver, and finally gold, representing in more detail the psychological change of becoming a woman”.
I will not comment here on these five popular stories, they are recommended and serve to better understand our culture, besides being ours, they are also those of others. I think it is more important, at least here, how the story of these stories is presented to us in this book. On the one hand, we count on the contribution of the writer, updating and facilitating the story, elaborating the final formulas, working well the phrases that appear at the end of the story. In fact, the selections and stories made by Igerabide are noteworthy.
On the other hand, it is worth noting the work done by Elena Odriozola in the illustrations. Classic four-leaf images, images renovated with the air of the illustrator Aurelio Arteta Errasti, in all of them winemakers, as you can see a touch of your own as if you were in a game. It's literature that, play, enjoyment, time to have a good time.
In this book they are easy to read, legible aloud, stories that lead the reader to a pleasant moment through stories and illustrations that allow us to delve into our tradition. And as Juan Kruz Igerabide says in his preamble, “let them fly through your imagination and fertilize in your land.”
PLEIBAK
Miren Amuriza Plaza
Susa, 2024
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Susa has published Miren Amuriza's second novel in the atrium of the Durango Fair: Plead. It's plebiscites because you're singing about an earlier recording. Berria includes the... [+]
Book Non sense
Edward Lear
Translation: Juan Kruz Igerabide
Denonartean, 2024
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The writer and illustrator Edward Lear published this work in 1846. As Igerabide says in the prologue of the book, “nonsense humor, absurd... [+]
Hetero
Uxue Alberdi
Susa, 2024
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In the era of negationism, the manosphere and trolls, the contribution of literature is essential, because it is an exceptional instrument to look at the folds of reality: the situations... [+]
Guardasola wants rain
Patxi Zubizarreta
Illustrations: Irrimarra
Ibaizabal, 2024
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30 years ago Patxi Zubizarreta published the book Marigoringoak hegan; J. M. Illustrated by Lavarello and by the hand of the Catalan publisher... [+]
Eyes on the horizon
Writer: Illustrator Miren Agur
Meabe: Ane Pikaza
Elkar, 2020
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Miren Agur Meabe has published several texts and books. He's worked with all the literary genres: children's and youth literature,... [+]
Barrengaizto
Beatrice Salvioni (Translation:
deceit Fernando Rey)
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fernando Rey has chosen the title of Barrizto to translate La malnata de Beatrice Salvioni. King says he has tried to be the voice of the... [+]
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]
Snarka Lewis Carroll
Hunting
Images:
Translation and Edition of Henry Holiday:Manu LÓpez Gaseni
Pamiela, 2024
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The work we have before us was published in the spring. After the works of Alice in Wonderland,... [+]
Lighting
Miriam Luki
Susa, 2023
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Translations
Miren Agur Meabe
Elkar, 2023
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Last year, Miren Agur Meabe published the novel Itzulerak. As the main characters are young people, we could say that it is juvenile literature, but when literature is good, it is for... [+]
Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024
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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And... [+]
Pozo
Goiatz Labandibar
Erein, 2024
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The Pozo de Goiatz Labandibarren is a growth novel that takes place one day: the descent of menstruation. Or in other words, a hero's journey, why not.
As often happens in this... [+]