Since 1999, Il Castoro has been dedicated to the production of children's books for all ages, including fiction, picture books and YA novels. Our children's books want to promote the pleasure of reading, to arouse the curiosity of children about contemporary matters and to build the readers of tomorrow.
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Castle Quay Books is dedicated to the growthof the Canadian Christian writing community in order todevelop and publish high quality titles thatpromote an uplifting message.
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Bei Nossack wird der Aufenthalt des Überlebenden in der Stadt mit ihren von Lebenserinnerungen erfüllten Toten zu einem Opfergang, wie es der Titel »Nekia« (Totenopfer) andeutet. Die als Traum erlebte Wirklichkeit wird zur mythisch-überhöhten Vision, die Frage des »Gewesenen« als Schuld durch das Orest-Motiv zu deuten versucht: der alte Mythos wird zum modernen Gleichnis. »Hermann Kasack«
Seven stories, whose topic is taken from a parable or metaphor, that offer us the opportunity to talk to children about universal values such as friendship, trust, personal talents, and about problems such as bullying, insecurity, fears, prejudices...Addressed to children aged 4 to 6 years, and usable at home, in the School of Childhood and other areas of socialization, the book contains a QR-code to display video-tutorials in which Oreste Castagna shows how to build the characters with colored cards. The editorial project LE CARTASTORIE will also become a training project for teachers and educators and a show for families.The book is beautifully illustrated by Alessandra Vitelli.
Opening the cover page, the presentation of the first two protagonists starts. Then, it is possible to open the other pages and close them in order to obtain different combinations of images, until the complete opening of the book where you can find Cat Mum and Cat Dad with their mantle decorated with all the patterns of their little cats. Images are matched to funny rhyming with the names and the colours of the little cats. A funny and dynamic book to play with colours, names and words. Please contact chenzhuo_af@126.com if interested.
This very original book contains images and thymes devoted to hypothetical cats, friends of some of the world greatest artists of all times. Each cat's fur is freely inspired to each artist's style. Simple rhymes accompany each cat picture, linking it without a doubt to the artist. The book is a simple and funny way to introduce little ones to the world of the greatest Art Masters of all times. The book also includes some pages of activities for free colouring or for drawing your own cat! Please contact chenzhuo_af@126.com if interested.
What can the Trojan War tell us about women’s empowerment and immigration? What can the myth of Ulysses tell us about human agency when it is pitted against seemingly unsourmountable circumstances? And what about Orpheus? What can his figure teach us about humanity and its relationship with death? We tend to look at the Classics as dusty, as things from the past, something to study in a college course, but the truth is that they are far more modern than we think, and they can shed a marvellous light on what it means to be humans in the 21st century. Written with a charming levity that cleverly masks years of research, How to Think Like Ulysses is a heartfelt plea to rediscovers the literary wonders of the ancient world and to heed their lesson: life in our contemporary world may be very much different from Athens in the 5th century B.C., but perhaps we didn’t change as much.
All is quiet in the big forest... with the exception of the Great Oak condominium along the Firefly Trail. Bickering and unkind words are now the order of the day among its inhabitants. And when the façade is defaced, it is clear to everyone that war is the only solution. Or is it?
All rights available for her second book House of Fossils. The extraordinary life of Marilène Phipps begain in Haiti—the magical island of African Vodou gods who followed their devotees on the slave ships, and the world's first black republic—the singular cultural context and exotic milieu of the Caribbean, where hell and paradise can transfix us daily. In this powerful memoir, we enter the lives of a family who are both descendants of European aristocrats and African slaves. We meet Phipps's godfather, the rebel leader Guslé Villedrouin, and we relive her experiences with Vodou priests and spirits, a cold-eyed pope, a charismatic Muslim astrologer, Catholic monks and exorcists, American Mormon bishops, scholars and missionaries. Through it all, we are stirred by the antithetical feel of entitlement and destitution, barbarism and lyricism, infinity and insanity. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti brings a collapse to Phipps's world, but is also the start for her to find modern answers to the ancient questions, "Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?"
