The boy Juan had wings instead of ears, the boy Jorge liked to eat the wall of his room. Through the streets of Chihuahua walks Chavela Ortiz, the six-legged monster. These are some of the inhabitants of Milk of Dreams, the notebook in which the plastic artist and surrealist writer Leonora Carrington captured her most intimate and heartfelt visions: the stories she imagined for her children, presented in a facsimile edition that preserves intact the visual poetry of the original texts and drawings.

In this book, an artist takes her son on a fantasy journey to help him understand the different and varied ways of experiencing colors. With their multicolored car, they enter a landscape made of the hues and shapes of her artworks. Charles's mother is Sonia Delaunay, who in the early 1910s, together with her husband Robert, proposed the bold idea that instead of representing people, places and things as they appeared in real life, the modern world should be reflected by capturing its colors, shapes, sounds and movements. Coordinated by Va de cuentos and María Maraña

A few years ago it was discovered that trees in a forest communicate with each other

through an underground network of fungi and roots. This discovery that seems

like a fantasy shows us the forest as a gigantic living being. And at the same

time, the tree as an individual that communicates with its community to alert

of dangers or to offer help.

The footprint as a record of information, a texture, a visual code that allows us

to imagine the creature on the other side. In this session we will play with the

stamping of our footprints and those of other animals.

The blue whale is the largest animal on planet Earth. This cetacean can

reach between 24 and 30 meters long and weigh up to 150 tons. This fascinating fact

will give us the opportunity to play with sizes, scales and perception

Román Belmonte, author of the blog Where the Monsters Live: Children's Literature, points out in one of his articles a curiosity that we couldn't let pass in this programming dedicated to storybook characters: redheads!. From mythical characters such as

Pippi Longstocking to adventurous journalists like Tintin, nowadays authors of books continue to enjoy coloring their characters' hair in reddish-orange. And it is that red hair is special, different and we like that.

This month we will create with a single color to approach concepts such as contrast, tone or saturation. Orange is the protagonist

Do insects have a voice? And ears? How do they communicate with each other?

"Mau iz io" is the picture book that will give rise to all these questions and speculations

about insects. We will verify the narrative power of sequenced images

and immerse ourselves in the creation of an invented language, the

insect language.

There are stories in which the setting has as much or more prominence than the characters themselves.

In this session we will see books that show us vibrant cities full

of diversity. Together we will create our imagined city, contributing

ideas, desires and dreams

Are there books within books? What kind of book would you be if you were a book?

How are books made? What is a book used for? In this session

we will discover different books with the book itself as the protagonist, to pay

homage to this precious object that accompanies us in each laboratory.

Following the popular children's song about the elephant that was swaying, which gives its title to

one of our featured books, we will create small wooden elephants to

create a collective building game and experiment with balance, weights

and composition in space.