In just three years Carles Sala has won the five most important prizes in Catalan children’s and YA literature.
In Cornelius and the Store of Impossible Things he tells the story of a shop that sells everything its customers need, whatever it is.
Carles Sala i Vila used to be a schoolteacher and for some time now he has worked as a craftsman and writer. He likes words, plants and avocado pear seeds, with which he makes pendants, earrings and key rings. With his novels he has won the most prestigious nacional prizes for children’s literature.
Other titles
My Friend Chispa is the story of the very special friendshipbetween a girl and a cloud.
Publication: 2011
Paperback
Illustrated by:
Màriam Ben-Arab
Pages: 64
Age: 7+
Size: 13.1 x 21 cm
Goodnight, Julia shows us, with huge doses of optimism and fantasy, the story of two little boys who are ill in hospital.
Publication: 2008
Paperback
Illustrated by:
Roger Simó
Pages: 112
Age: 10+
Size: 13.1 x 21 cm
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In Seven Scary Interviews we can read the story of two brave reporters who go to an
old castle to interview ladies who sleep in coffins, hairy people who look like wolves... But they don’t know if they’ll come out alive!
Publication: June 2013
Paperback
Illustrated by:
Roger Simó
Pages: 120
Age: 10+
Size: 13.1 x 21 cm
Mister Rumba. Meow is from a very musical gypsy family. One of his cousins decides to try to make it in America.
Publication: June 2014
Paperback
Illustrated by:
Roger Simó
Pages: 136
Age: 8+
Size: 13.1 x 21 cm