Icarus

–Tell me: how long have you been on your own?
–About a month, I think…
–Do you have any idea of the whereabouts of your parents?
–Yes, of course I have.
–So? How could we find them?
–That’s not possible.

A child arrives at a shelter and the assistants try to find out the whereabouts of his parents. But contrary to what they believe, he is not an abandoned child; the protagonist of this beautiful story makes us participants of another reality, outside conventionalisms. Ícaro, winner of the 7th International Compostela Prize for Picture Books, is about the desire for freedom, difference and hope; its message identifies with those who go against the tide, faced with the incomprehension of the environment that surrounds them, incapable of seeing beyond the apparent.

Key points

2016 – Cuatrogatos Foundation Award
2016 – IBBY Honour List, Illustration
2015 – The White Ravens List
2014 – International Compostela Prize for Picture Books

• Multiawarded book and authors.
• The text, evocative of the myth of Icarus and the work of Kafka, can be read in a metaphorical key: the will as a means to face adverse situations, to fabulate on one’s life as a creative script.

Federico Delicado

2023 – Cuatrogatos Foundation, 100 Recommended Books
2020 – IBBY Honour List, Illustration
2020 – Lazarillo Award
2015 – International Orihuela Prize for Children´s Poetry