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Since we started publishing books twenty-one years ago, illustrators and writers have written to us asking about sending originals. Do we accept originals for evaluation? Where should we send them? What is the best way to do it? [read more] -
Begoña has traveled to Havana to interview the heir of the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso, whose work was presented to us by his widow, Petra Ballagas, on our first trip to Cuba in 1991. We have always been very interested in his work, and since then we have had the opportunity to learn more about it. [read more] -
After ten years without direct participation, this year we returned to Frankfurt Book Fair, where we had our own space in Pavilion 4.1, dedicated to Art and Literature. At the same time, an exhibition on Media Vaca’s book My First 80,000 Words… [read more] -
The 3rd Technical Conference on Children’s and Young Adult Books in the United States was held on 23 March in Chicago, Illinois, in the impressive building of Chicago Public Library. The purpose of this conference was to promote the catalogue and new releases from Spanish publishers in the genre of children’s and young adult content to American customers and specifiers… [read more] -
'Media Vaca Museum', awarded in Bolonia
Bologna Ragazzi Award ceremony, at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, last 1 April, in the Farnesse Room of Palazzo D'Accursio, in Piazza Maggiore. The book Media Vaca Museum received a mention in the New Horizons category. [read more] -
A Toast to the Sun. 20 years of Media Vaca
Media Vaca is about to be 20 years old. On 18 December 1998, the first three titles of the publishing house were presented —I Have No Words; Noses, Little Owls, Volcanoes, and Other Poems; and Carrot Hair— in the bookshop and gallery La Guillotina, a great venue in Valencia that does not exist anymore. [read more] -
Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, and visit of the publishers to three libraries that offer Media Vaca’s catalogue, guided by Freddy Aguilar, director of the BS Children’s Library in Oaxaca. The three libraries are the BS Children’s Library Parque de las Canteras, the BS Ferrocarril Library, and the ‘El Rosario’ Library, in Santa Catarina Minas. [read more] -
Media Vaca has obtained the 2018 National Prize for Best Cultural Publishing Labour, awarded by the Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte (Ministry of Culture and Sport). The jury has highlighted “the exquisite care of its catalogue, the quality of its books, the respect towards readers and the rest of agents in the book chain”. [read more] -
‘Otra Mirada’ meeting at the Bogotá Book Fair, organised by the Cálamo bookshop of Zaragoza and Acción Cultural Española (Spanish Cultural Action). At the table, four publishers of children’s books: María Fernanda Paz Castillo (Cataplum), María Francisca Mayobre (Ekaré), María Osorio (Babel), and Vicente Ferrer… [read more] -
In the Cervantes Institute in Tokio
Media Vaca returns to Tokyo after 13 years. Taking advantage of the trip, which apparently can never be simple walk in the park, the publishers elaborate a busy activity schedule. [read more] -
In 2016 we wrote some ‘Plans for 2016’ of which we fulfilled only a minuscule fraction. In 2017 we did not make any plans; we had no time to think about them, since we were too busy throwing the 2016 plans out the window. In 2018… [read more] -
Since last 20 July, Media Vaca has had an Instagram account opened and administrated by one of the publishing house’s readers and friends. This is no small matter, since until this moment the publishing house has completely kept its distance from social networks. In fact, the publisher does not own a mobile phone and has refused to have one as if he were a forest spirit. [read more]
