efore going on, my friend, you must know something: your life will not be better after reading this book. It is important to learn this, some people seem to think that they can find the solution for all their troubles in books. We shouldn’t ask so much from them. They also don’t ask too much from us: they do oblige us, however, to keep our eyes glued to the pages for a certain time, although it would be much more pleasant for example to look at a human face. A book doesn’t ask us how much education we have or if we are experienced readers: readers of three thousand books, let’s say. The book doesn’t care who we are, it is enough to approach it with open eyes.

Surely you will say, my friend: I know that this book will not change my life, and I also know that it will not make me into a better person, but this doesn’t matter, I only want to have a good time. Then you should know something: although the book obliges us to pay attention to it, it also pushes our vision towards its margins to show us there is an entire world beyond in which we form a part and which beckons us. This is a good thing to keep in mind. It frequently happens that one book leads us to another book, and that one leads us to another and another; until the day arrives when the last book suddenly closes with a bang in our hands.

Every book contains many books, and each new book obliges us to look at a new landscape. Now then, reading ten, a hundred and sixty, two thousand books, will this change our life and make us better? No, my friend, you mustn’t think about it. After reading a lot or a couple of books, it is only possible to conclude that there was a first book and there must necessarily be a last one. It is a good thing to move from one book to another as if we were travelling along a path and we do not know where it leads. We enjoy getting lost in its twists and turns, but we won’t have learned a thing if we don’t gather all the patience and good humour possible prior to discovering what awaits us behind the last book.

The books in both series: Libros para niños and Últimas lecturas, share the
same technical characteristics: each is printed in bi-colour, they have the same format
-18,5 x 23 cm.-, on 140 gr. paper, hardback with a dust jacket.
The price of each depending on the number of pages (usually between 100 and 200) and the print
run (from 2.000 to 3.000 copies)- varies between 15 and 35 Euros.