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May 10, 2022
The power of museums
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Celebrating International Museum Day 2022 with a purpose As every 18th May, museums from all around the world celebrate International Museum Day (IMD). This year the slogan is “The power of museums”. The purpose is to explore the potential of museums to bring about positive change in their communities through three lenses: achieving sustainability, innovating […]
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April 27, 2022
Two titles on the TOP 5 bestsellers Catalan children’s books list on World Book Day! Last Saturday, more than 300 books and roses stalls were set up again in Barcelona. Thousands took to the streets to celebrate Sant Jordi and look for new books. What a massive party! As you know, in Catalonia we […]
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February 2, 2022
What important event happened exactly 100 years ago today? On February 2nd, 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses was published as a complete novel by Sylvia Beach, the owner of the Paris legendary bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Widely regarded as the greatest literary work of the 20th century, this experimental masterpiece beloved and hated equally, incomprehensible […]
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January 28, 2022
A wonderful start to the season! While we are fixing appointments for Bologna and London Book Fairs (in person!) and working on the new Spring catalogue, we’ve learnt the excellent news that Pere Ginard artwork will be showcased at the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2022. We found out that Pere sent a set of OOAK illustrations from his […]
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January 18, 2022
The Amazing Creepy Granny House is full of secrets, and its authors, Martí and Salomó, reveal some of them. While the little ones play at lifting the book’s flaps, adults can look for the hidden references. So, get your magnifying glass ready to enjoy a title full of tributes to fantasy culture. So much […]
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November 29, 2021
Interview with Marta Comín, the author of My Little Christmas Tree Carousel How did the book My Little Christmas Tree Carousel come about? Well, Christmas is a very evocative season. I had never worked this topic in any of my books and I was really looking forward to it. If you think about it, the […]
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September 9, 2021
Foreword from our Editorial Director, Noemí Mercadé Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, with a long dry spell without being able to attend book fairs, where the only way to establish contacts and stay in touch has been online, the company has continued to focus on the interests of children, paying attention to the […]
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April 22, 2021
Join the NYC online version of Barcelona’s Sant Jordi Book Fair The world-renowned Catalan festival devoted to books was about to land in New York when all was swept away by COVID-19. How could a virus take a fest of books, roses and dragons down? True to the spirit of Sant Jordi’s Day, the […]
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March 19, 2021
2021 Spring Catalogue is out!
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It is time to browse through the new Combel rights list! In this time of uncertainty, it hasn’t been easy to be a children’s book publisher. However it has been challenging and rewarding. We have rediscovered the importance of telling stories and sharing unique and incomparable experiences. As foreign rights, we are delighted to share […]
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February 3, 2021
Towards a more sustainable world
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We are PEFC ® certified! Setting goals for Combel in 2021 starts with an African proverb: Lots of little people, doing little things, can change the world. “Our duty to our children is to live in a more sustainable world and this is becoming increasingly essential. Our publishing house is keen to take up the gauntlet of […]
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