Why students will enjoy it: With each turn of page, children are delighted to find out what the main character paints next, and it's easy for them to predict the rhyming word coming up. The part that always generates giggles: "I'm such a nut, gonna paint my ... WHAT?"

MARTA ALBERTI SÁNCHEZ

If your child struggles with feelings of inadequacy or trouble fitting in, You Be You has some valuable lessons and themes about diversity and acceptance.

Irene Vico

Age: +4

Elmer is an elephant with rainbow and white squares arranged as a patchwork. He has a cheerful and optimistic personality.

The story is suitable for early exploration of diversity and accepting oneself.

 
Jordina Ochavo

Age. 3 - 7

Release date. September, 2018.

We all have fears and fears keep us safe. But sometimes our fear grows so big that it stops us from having fun, embarking on adventures and experiencing life. It can make us lonely, scared and insecure. But, if we know that others have fears just like us, we can help each other to manage and make friends with fear so that we can keep it from growing too large.

Maria Cardoso Rodríguez

Age. 4 - 8

Release date. February, 2019

This is a story about a girl who decides to wear pants instead of a horrible and uncomfortable dress. But people don’t understand because pants are the clothes of boys, so they start insulting and abusing her. Something happened inside this girl, but if you want to know her decision start reading this incredible book!

Maria Cardoso Rodríguez

Age. +5

Release date. June, 2021

Pink is for boys and girls, for everyone! This timely and beautiful board book rethinks and reframes the stereotypical blue/pink gender binary and empowers kids-and their grown-ups-to express themselves in every color of the rainbow.

Maria Cardoso Rodríguez

Despite her being little, her magic was very powerful, and more than once she had considered using it to make herself beautiful. But then she remembered what her mother had always told her: "My dear, you are what you are, warts and all; and never doubt that you are this way for a very special reason..."

But then, one day, the witches of the neighbouring land invaded and destroyed the country, putting all the fairies and wizards in prison. Our fairy, just before being attacked, put a spell on her own clothes and, helped by her ugly face, she managed to pass for a witch. That way she was able to follow the witches back to their den.

Once there she used her magic to prepare a big party for everyone, decorating the cave with bats, toads and spiders. The music was provided by a pack of howling wolves. While the party was in full swing, the fairy hurried off and set free all the fairies and wizards who had been imprisoned. When all of them were free, they worked together on one big spell which succeeded in trapping the witches inside the mountain for the next hundred years. And for the next hundred years, and more, everyone remembered the great bravery and intelligence of the ugly fairy.

And from that day on no one in that land ever saw ugliness as a disgrace. Whenever someone ugly was born, people were filled with joy, knowing that for that new person great things lay ahead.

This book talks about  partnership and how to achieve together a proposal. This is a classic work, lovely to read and beatiful to look at. For any age at any period.

     MARIBEL RUIZ NOVELLA

tells the story of Malena, a fat girl who has swimming lessons weekly. She doesn't like to go into the s
wimming pool because the children yell at her, "Malena is a whale!". Malena's mind had transformed her into what others told her... she feels heavy and as big as a whale, she feels ugly, not accepted, and she thinks that no one loves her. 

Noticing that Malena was discouraged during the lessons, one day her swimming teacher told her: "We are what we think we are," and gave her very useful advice. He recommended her that if she wants to be light, she has to think she is. (the teacher only talk to Malena, and say nothing to the children taht bully her, but...)

And in addition to bullying, unfortunately our protagonist has to face another evil: sexual harassment. Without giving much explanation, the story tells us that when Malena leaves the pool late and goes home, a man stalks her and says, "Where are you going, little mushroom?". The author tells: “Malena didn't like those words at all. She never answered and ran without looking at him”.

With the help of her teacher's advice, Malena imagines that she is huge, giant, and stares at the man in the eye, and when he was about to open his mouth, that stranger said nothing. Malena is happy to think that the technique works.

The next swimming lesson arrives, and this time Malena feels light in the water. "She moved like a fish, thought 'sardine,' 'eel,' 'barracuda,' 'shark'"... And every time she imagines faster and more agile things, and Malena can do all the swimming styles she wanted. Everyone applauded her and didn't insult her anymore.

This story shows us many circumstances that girls must live with: low self-esteem as a result of cruel comments and the standards of society in general; the mistaken perception they have of themselves because of these labels; sexual harassment from which women do not escape, whatever their age, specifically street harassment.

But it also shows us the capacity of empathy of the people who love us, the good that positive advice can do; how the perception of ourselves is much more powerful than any comment made with bad intentions towards us; the influence that the mind has on our body.

By imagining herself in a thousand ways, Malena learned to see the value in herself and in her body. She understood that with her body, she can do whatever she wants and more. She even managed to get the boy she likes to look at her and smile at her, because she feels more confident and she passes it on to others. And finally, she doesn't mind being called a "whale" because it's simply not a bad thing. She is as she is, and so she is happy.

Ruth Gozalbo