Where is it? Lift the flaps to find it!
Knock, knock! Do you remember Nicolasa? It got a very warm reception from readers.
In this new adventure by Mar Benegas, illustrated by Mariana Ruiz Johnson, it is the whale’s turn to help her friend Mariana the frog seeking her lost silver thimble.
Misplacing objects is an everyday occurrence, but finding them can be like going on a treasure hunt without a map. But as they say, there are no missing items. Only unsystematic searchers.
Following the old advice, Mariana the frog, together with her friends, finds her way back to locate the lost thimble. As we all know, everything works out better when you do it with friends! And if f you didn’t have the chance to read Nicolasa, Mar Benegas tells you the story. Watch it:
Mariana Seeks the Silver Thimble
by Mar Benegas. Illustrated by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
23 × 23 cm | 16 pages | Hardcover with flaps | Ages 3+
Publication: September 2021
MAR BENEGAS Poet and writer. She works as reading and creativity promotor at schools, libraries and cultural centers. She’s specialist in children’s poetry and coordinates the poetry area of Atrapavientos and elsitiodelaspalabras.es, while training creative writing workshops at Fuentetaja. Among other books, she’s the author of Cherry series, Nicolasa, Where is Your Home?, Who Is Inside?, I Have Eaten Nothing, What are They Doing?and Bits & Bites, which belong to Marsupiflap series.
For further information, you can also read An interview to Mar Benegas regarding Bits & Bites.
MARIANA RUIZ JOHNSON was born in Argentina. She has published books as an author and illustrator around the world.
In 2013 she received the Picture Book Compostela Prize and in 2015 won the Silent Book Contest of the Bologna Book Fair.
She is the author of the Lullabies series published by Combel.
