El Animalfabeto (Spanish Edition)

While packing to go visit their grandparents, one discovers that the other is bringing along a jellyfish for the trip. Well, you'll have to read to find out! Since the book is almost complete, beyond minor changes and final file formatting for the printer, the vast majority of the funds I need to raise are to be used for printing, storing, and shipping the initial first-edition print run of "Sometimes You Need a Jellyfish," as well as costs associated with setting up my own self-publishing business, registering an ISBN number, and getting the book onto shelves and into the public eye.

That's 4 books total!

In addition, your name will be included in the Special Thanks section of the book. Everything in the "Fan Pack" Level, plus a limited edition canvas art print featuring a scene from the book, signed by the artist. It could be based on a favorite pet, a stuffed toy, or the whim of your child. Includes 10 copies of the book. A personal appearance by the author to do a live reading of "Sometimes You Need a Jellyfish" at your school, book club, library, playgroup, or wherever else, within the continental US or Canada , as well as an age-appropriate basic cartooning lesson.

We now have Add-Ons! To find out more, click here. At this point my goal is just to make the best book possible. To that end, initial stretch goals will be all about making a better product: For more information on stretch goals, and each of these specific goals, please read the update here. One of the reasons I am so confident in this book is that it is, for all intents and purposes, done.

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You are definitely not buying a book that exists only as a manuscript and some promotional art. I have left room for a couple of animal cameos see Reward Levels which would need to be illustrated, but otherwise the book is ready to go! So with that in mind, I expect that the only potential challenges will be those associated with getting the books printed, packed, and out the door to you. I am confident we'll have your book to you, looking amazing, in a timely manner. The number one risk? Not making our goal! So please support, and share with your friends and family!

Questions about this project? Check out the FAQ. My eternal thanks, and a virtual high-five, for not wishing me any specific harm. You get my eternal thanks, PLUS a signed first-edition hardcover copy of "Sometimes You Need a Jellyfish", a selection of fun goodies like stickers and bookmarks, and your name in the Acknowledgements section of the book!

A personal appearance by the author to do a live reading of "Sometimes You Need a Jellyfish" at your school, book club, library, playgroup, or wherever else, within WA, OR, or CA, as well as an age-appropriate basic cartooning lesson. A personal appearance by the author to do a live reading of "Sometimes You Need a Jellyfish" at your school, book club, library, playgroup, or wherever else, within the continental US or Canada, as well as an age-appropriate basic cartooning lesson.

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Oct 15, - Nov 14, 30 days. Share this project Done. The charming story of two brothers who discover that -- with a little imagination -- a jellyfish might be the most useful friend ever! Thank you so much for your support! Photo credit Jeff Bogle. Aguardaba ansioso al amanecer amarillo Picture Reviejo y Aramburu In these iction Al pie de la letra , by M.

Calatayud, is alphabet books, each letter or keyword leads a silent illustrated alphabet book where each to a more or less long story, with a common word is skilfully inserted in a picture without thematic content. These alphabet books are a narrative continuum. Each picture proposes therefore hybridised with a relatively new two reading challenges to the reader simulta- genre called cuentos integrados integrated tales neously: Abecedario ilustrado by C. They are not miniictions but they do not move away from the narrative conventions of tales either. They are not intended to create metaictional reading processes or parodies of the concept of alphabet.

For this reason, we consider them modern -not postmodern- alphabet books.

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The fourth innovation line is that of alphabet books with a complex text-picture relation. This relation is complementary, ironic many times, far from the subordinated function of Picture Al pie de la letra.

The letters are part reading process prevailed in that word-picture of the pictures, but there is a narrative thread equivalence. On the contrary, almost all con- among them. The complexity of the layout is temporary illustrated alphabet books can be embodied in the last page, where the author considered as metaictional picture books Le reveals the curiosities and secrets therein, i. The metaictional nature that Arizpe and Styles attribute as an inherent feature of picture books is thus strengthened.

Three titles published in Spain are analysed as an example below. Gisbert, texts arbitrarily combine words referred to objects starting with Picture Many components that characterise alphabet alphabet books play with the potential ofered books, as well as a remarkable handful of by paper folding, die cutting, windows and genres and arts.

El Animalfabeto (Spanish, Paperback)

It does not imply parody of tabs, etc. With each die-cut letter, readers can letters and in those made up of a series of create animals with that letter as an initial or short tales integrated in the alphabetical highlighted letter just like a Japanese origami structure acting a narrative framework that picture Besides big formats, typical from picture books, new formats of a great aes- thetic value are created and take advantage Picture Postmodern alphabet books McHale ; quot.

By Bodmer, , p. According to Bodmer, the result thereof is an increase Picture According — Weakening of the primary function of to Bodmer, it is not clear whether or not this alphabet books literacy. This new destiny sometimes brings ature in general. According especially- calling into question typological to Coats, it means that our symbolic universe is features of their genre and even of the nature of under threat p.

This rigid genre could be especially subversive element. The complex techniques prone to subversion, resulting in what Bodmer used to create ictions parodies, intertextual calls anti-alphabet books, which demonstrate references, metaiction, etc. These anti-alphabet books also reflect The Gashlycrumb Tinies or The Utter Zoo the anti-didactic mood of our time Bodmer, , The irst one shows a series of tragic fates p. AbeCeBichos , with into question the nature of alphabet books as texts by D. Nesquens and pictures by J. Her detailed study of four alphabet books published in the United States between and shows how these works are parodies of the forms and functions of alphabet books through narrative mechanisms such as the personiication of letters, which behave as real beings and rebel against the order imposed by Picture The term creatures in the cover as the current editor of the old treatise.

All The nature of the alphabet books is not texts are composed as tautograms, sharing a explicit neither in the title nor in the typog- similar grammar structure: The into Spanish and a technical description there- semantic surrealism due to the arbitrariness after, sometimes including little anecdotes. Texts do not thematic alphabet books than to the literacy have any sense in a real context but they refer to function. After the apparently realistic cover, a self-referential humorous universe.

According to Zavala , p. The two forms of parody to which Picture The transcendental tone warns the reader of the Another aspect that deines these two unusual nature of this botany book: The humorous Latin denominations of alphabet books is the brevity of ictions: Texts are pure puns: Expressive concentration level of academic language but its content is is basically obtained through intertextuality surrealistic, according to the crazy uses of the games -usually ironic or parodic- and through plants invented.

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In line with fantasy bestiaries, genre hybridisation Zavala, The author this case could be considered an apocryphal of miniictions acts as demiurge that creates book on herbalism. Texts in ABeCeBichos —which are pictures present smart characters, dressed in a all tautograms- can be read as prose poems, full fashionable, bourgeois way of the end of the 18th of rhythm and alliterations; likewise, its inser- century or the beginning of the 19th century, tion in a higher narrative framework leads us but usually in ridiculous situations caused by to believe it is a picture story or an picture book the absurd uses of the plants.

A lyrical universe inside the elements of intellectual and spiritual parody can be found at the same time, as well anarchy, following the tradition of nonsense as some empathy to some of the oldest desires and the world turned upside down; an of humanity. Originality basically consists a series that is integrated in a greater unit that on revitalising old ways of writing abec- gives sense thereto.

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This way, they are a variety edaries, botany treatises, bestiaries, etc. The reader of modern and the rest of the texts Zavala, , p. This postmodern alphabet books belonging is strengthened through the closed, Probably due to the fact that it is a minor arranged structure of alphabet books.

The miniiction gogical, pictorial, typographical and binding series are a new way of reading, because texts movements resulting in a wonderful fusion, can be read independently or in a fractal manner sometimes ahead of aesthetic proposals that as part of an independent universe. Readers took a long time to Spreads across renowned should consider the relationship between wholes literature. The rigid constraints inherent and parts Zavala, , p.

What kind of implicit reader are these modern — Desire to be universal: Many modern — Sense of humour: The complexity of the diferent structure and the function of alphabet books as itineraries of reading is added thereto, which a genre is not noticed yet. The didactic function make fractal structure and the pictures thereof of pictures, previously subordinated to making possible, with parallel secondary stories. While the reading process easier, resulted -in many novel readers can easily enter and exit the works- in pictures playing a more important world created by the author, each miniiction role and are aimed at striking or touching the text is a little cosmos itself.

In contrast with the reader, with resources such as visual riddles, common belief that this brief genre is related letters that are hidden in the pictures, storytell- to nowadays quickness, Shua believes ing through pictures, intertextuality through that books made up of miniictions cannot be visual contemporary codes such as the cinema, read in one go but little by little, and require comics, graitti, etc.

All these inno- than in other pages full of words. In contrast, vation lines are similar to those Colomer , their level of literaturity is fragile and instable pp. On the other hand, the complex any. The pleasure of reading may then probably interaction with texts in many of these books, emerge more dramatically than with other as well as the carefully design of formats, make texts only as a result of an active cooperation many aspects of this modern books resemble to between the writer, the text and the reader.

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The use of other codes such as pop-up, real recipients of these postmodern alphabet manipulative interaction, etc. But can it be frustrating postmodern, although they seem to be simple to innocent readers? Notes Therefore, the two Spanish alphabet books 1 Dr. The Gashlycrumb Tinies ; M. Sendak, Alligators All Delessert , A Was 2 M. Agee, Z an Apple Pie; S. Glaser, The Alphazeds M. Delessert, A Was an Apple Pie Sendak , Alligators All Around; E. Seuss , Dr. Retrieved from 7 Chaney analysed in detail the main structures http: Notas suple- group, following the study by A.

Queneau, interested in mathematics in turn. Comentarios a una cartilla. Queval, was sub- pp. On the basis of this idea Quimera, , What Is the Use of a Book htm without Pictures? El nuevo Libro ed. El nuevo Libro del abecedario. The Reading Fiore Editora. Teacher, 47 2 , Tres siglos de lit- Christensen, N. Un Abecedario ilustrado en eratura infantil europea. P is for Patriarchy. Rendering the visible world: A critical examination of internalization, rep- Colomer, T.

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