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Vicente Ferrer and Begoña Lobo, creators of the Spanish imprint Media Vaca, will give a free seminar in Córdoba. The publishing house is a gem of independent publishing. They publish only three books a year, with an emphasis on illustration and graphic art. Their catalogue includes Argentinian authors such as Isol and Diego Bianki. [read more] -
Dear friends, we are delighted to share with you the wonderful news of these three awards recently received. Joan Fernández Negrescolor has been awarded the 2016 Junceda Illustration Award, in the Divulgation and Science category, for the book There Are Social Classes… [read more] -
Why we are not participating in Madrid Book Fair
This year we thought it would be a good idea to participate in the Madrid Book Fair and, as we wanted to do so with our own stand, we wrote the following letter to the organisers… [read more] -
After 18 years and 63 published books (some of which have taken a decade to finish), it is time to catch our breath and look at the view. This is what people do when they climb a mountain, and it cannot be any different from climbing a mountain of books. [read more] -
BolognaRagazzi Award Non Fiction for Books For Tomorrow
We are delighted to inform you that our collection Books for Tomorrow has received the first prize Bologna Ragazzi Award in the Non Fiction category. This is the fourth time Media Vaca has received a first prize at the Bologna Fair. The previous winners were Mr. Korbes and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm (2002 Fiction Award), A Season in Calcutta (2002 Non Fiction Award), and Robinson Crusoe. [read more] -
From the same publishing house that published Carrot Hair by Jules Renard (a book from 1894) some years ago, followed by The Stream by Élisée Reclus (a 1869 book), and, more recently, Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (a 1871 book), comes a series of four titles that appeared forty years ago. [read more] -
Next Friday 19 November 2014, at 19:00, the First World Congress of the SADPPD (Society of Friends and Disseminators of the Peelable Postal Ball) will take place in the Umbracle of the Botanical Garden of Valencia. [read more] -
The publishing house Media Vaca will be 15 years old in November 2013. During this time we have published an average of three titles per year and the 50th book in our catalogue has just come out. Despite the fact that the last paper catalogue was published in 2006, and we have not had commercial distribution since 2008… [read more] -
The Illustrated Dictionary of the 21st Century
CEIP Siglo XXI Las Rozas (Las Rozas 21st Century School), in Madrid, has published the Illustrated Dictionary of the 21st Century, created by the school’s children. The project is an initiative of the Parents’ Association in which the entire educational community has participated. They say, as stated in the book itself, that it is inspired by the dictionary My First 80,000 Words… [read more] -
El Persa (Pepe Cardona) died a few hours ago. Pepe Cardona has died, but not El Persa. El Persa is still with us and always will be. He is in his books, drawings, cutouts, paintings. In the stories he counted on losing like Joyce when he wrote in taverns… [read more] -
Award for Welcome to El Cabanyal
Dear friends of the Art Books, we have good news: the book Welcome to El Cabanyal, published by Media Vaca, has received the third prize in the category Libros de Arte (Art Books) in the Best Edited Books Awards for 2011, organised by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. [read more] -
One day I visited the A|34 gallery (in Aribau 24 street, Barcelona) as Media Vaca’s assistant and María Schjaer asked me if I was Begoña and Vicente’s daughter. She was very surprised when I answered that I was not and that they do not have children. However, I carefully explained that both Vicente and Begoña are tireless and ‘adopt’ all of us as their children. [read more]
