The Pea Giant and Other Tales from Ukraine
Kotigorosko, The Pea Giant, Ivasyk Kindle, Peg-leg, The Old Woman with the Iron Nose, Mister Cat, Rabia the Hen, and the Goading Goat, among others, are some of the characters that appear inside these tales; tales that in other times when there was peace, the children of Ukraine listened to, as told by their grandmothers. Nowadays many families are separated, and Ukrainian children haven’t heard of the wondrous stories where the Littlest One always wins, and where wounds can heal. In hopes that one day, in the not-so-far-off future, Ukrainian grandmothers can tell these tales again, we have published these stories not only for the Ukrainian children that have arrived in our country looking for a safe place, a place to call home, but also for our children, so that they can see that other stories are not so different from ours, and the things all humans strive for tend to be similar.
“Published with huge taste by Libros de las Malas Compañías, that adds to their spendid catalogue a jewel once again” - CulturaPlaza
Written by Valeria Kiselova
Illustrated by Yana Barabash
Prologue by L. Espido Freire
Collection: Illustrated Ancient Tales
Size: 28 x 20,5 cm
Pages: 112
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-84-125007-6-9
Price without VAT 23.56€
RRP 24.50€
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Ana C. Herreros
She was born in León and her grandmother kept quiet stories. So she soon learned to listen to the silence and to love those who have no voice, those who don't tell tales.
So much so that, years later and already an emigrant in Madrid, she began to write a doctoral thesis on the literature of those who neither write nor read. And so, researching the oral tradition, in 1992 she came across oral narration. She started telling stories, and for more than twenty years, she has not been silent. Then her voice filled with ink and she started writing. Her work has been translated to Catalan, French and Mexican. She has made an autistic man speak, a princess sit down to listen to her lecture and 16 6-month-old babies preferred listening to her stories to taking a bottle. Oh, if her grandmother raised her head...
With Libros de las Malas Compañías she has also published the following titles:
Daniel Tornero
He is an illustrator, narrator and teacher, but above all, he is a narrator. He has been with the Jamacuco stage group since the last century, and he likes telling stories so much that he has gone from voice to paper. Now he also paints the parallel universe of the stories using coloured pencils and a brush made of the hair of a child. Whether as a narrator or as a cartoonist, the important thing is that it continues telling.
As an illustrator, he has been working since January 2012 at the Ipad Magazine DON, and since May 2014 he has been the art director, designer and illustrator of the publishing house Libros de las Malas Compañías. He has already published a book, The Skeleton Woman, which has been a finalist for the Extraordinary Prizes for Plastic Arts and Design of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. It has also received the Honorable Mention at the XII Audiovisual Awards of the Directorate General for Equality.
With Libros de las Malas Compañías he has also illustrated the following titles:
