She-Bear

Autumn covered the fields and She-Bear was alone.
Surrounded by thickets, She-Bear searched…
Her fur was dressed in seeds
as she ate the last fruit of summer.

She-Bear is alone and with the arrival of cold and winter she is looking for a good place to sleep. One morning, light floods into her hiding place and her tummy stirs, and it’s not from hunger. A new spring will come for She-Bear, but now she will no longer be alone…
The cycle of life and nature merge in a tender story about motherhood presented as a natural and serene event, a unique moment of special connection between a mother and her offspring. The illustrations, delicate, metaphorical and of great poetic and narrative force, will captivate readers of all ages.

Key points

2017 – Cuatrogatos Foundation, 90 Recommended Books
2016 – 20th CCEI Illustration Awards Honour List

• Mother nature expressed in the motherhood of animals and vegetation.
• Illustrations of great expressive force that blend elegantly with the poetic text.
• A book to treasure.

José Ramón Alonso

2022 – 28th European Popular Science Prize «Estudi General»
2017 – IBBY Spain (OEPLI) Honour List
2012 – Prisma Award, Best Popular Science Book
2008 – Popular Science Teresa Pinillos Award, Universidad de La Rioja

Lucía Cobo

2019 – Finalist in Cuatrogatos Foundation Award
2018 – Selected in Sharjah Exhibition for Children’s Book Illustrations
2017 – IBBY Spain (OEPLI) Honour List
2014 – Honourable Mention in the 5th Iberoamerican Illustration Catalogue (Mexico)