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  AROMA DE GALLETAS (THE SMELL OF COOKIES) Text by Antonio Fernández Molina Illustrations by Isol ISBN: 84-930221-5-2 124 pp PVP: 15'03 euros This book contains texts by Antonio Fernández Molina ywhich had already been published in other books under such high-sounding titles as "A plate of Bitter Birdseed" or "Raw Sonnets". In it you may find free verse or even verse of its own free will, sonnets that recall past times and very short stories, only a few lines in length, that deal with the beautiful world that lies hidden behind the ugly and the ordinary: that elephant that awaits us on the other side of the door -we can see it through the peephole- and won't let us leave the house. Antonio Fernández Molina, a writer and painter with an abundant and little known oeuvre, had never published a children's book, but his six daughters and numerous grandchildren have read everything he has written and grew up quite cheerfully. What more can you ask for? Isol, the illustrator of these stories and poems, lives in Buenos Aires. Her drawings look like something out of those old boxes of cookies where one has long been hoarding one's treasures: picture cards, precious stones, bits of wire, a screw and other amulets.The world is a room, This avenue is a bedroom. We keep its accordion music's time with a broom. In pyjamas, our only pair We are beggars, we are kings (A. Fernández Molina)
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