SOY DE LA CUESTA PRESENTS THE II FESTIVAL OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH LITERATURE 2024

2024/03/14

• The Soy de la Cuesta Association and the Retirement District Board of the Madrid City Council organize the second COSTUME CONTEST inspired by universal literature for children and adults, with a jury made up of the writers Jero García, María Menéndez-Ponte, the illustrator Claudia Ranucci and the writer and famous bookstagrammer Yago Gómez Duro.
• At 1:00 p.m. there will be a meeting between the attendees and Jero García, author of 'Cola de Lagartija' (Today's Issues), president of the FAID-Jero García Foundation and famous 'Big Brother' (Cuatro TV).
• The first three winners of the contest will receive a set of books as a prize, as well as an original illustration by Claudia Ranucci (Edelvives)
• The creators participating in this second edition of the Children's and Youth Literature Festival will sign copies of their works at the end of the celebration.

The Soy de la Cuesta Citizen Association and the Retirement District Board of the Madrid City Council celebrate the second edition of their Children's and Youth Literature Festival on Sunday, March 31, from 12 noon to 2 p.m., at the Book Fair of la Cuesta de Moyano, in collaboration with the publishers Edelvives, Temas de Hoy and SM and in anticipation of the International Day of Children's and Young People's Literature.

Starting at 12 noon at Booth 22 in Cuesta de Moyano, the central activity of the Festival will take place: the second COSTUME COMPETITION inspired by universal literature, for children and adults. The first three winners will receive a prize of a set of books and an original illustration by Claudia Ranucci. The jury of the contest will be made up of Jero García, former presenter of “Hermano Mayor” and author of Cola de Lagartija (2023) from the Temas de Hoy publishing house; María Menéndez-Ponte, author of the collection Pupi Babak or The Brave Club with the SM publishing house; the bookstagrammer Yago Gómez Duro, author of Decir adiós no es vivirte (Ediciones B) and Claudia Ranucci, illustrator of the collections 'Malos' and 'Buenos' with Edelvives, and 'Primos SA' with SM.

To participate in the contest, free prior registration is required at: https://www.soydelacuesta.org/disfraces/

 

MEETING WITH JERO GARCÍA

From 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Caseta 22

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At 1 p.m. Those attending the event will have the opportunity to meet coach Jero García, who will give participants and attendees a motivational talk. At the end of the presentation, the author will be available to dedicate copies of his novel Cola de Lagartija (Temas de Hoy, 2023) to young readers.

“We are all a little like Cola, the unforgettable protagonist of this story, because we all, at some point in our lives, need help and feel the need to lend a hand to someone. This is the most extraordinary thing: helping another human being. There is nothing nicer than receiving support when you need it. Cola fell many times, but they all managed to get up. And not only to stand, but to continue fighting. That's life. We must learn to fit in more than to dodge, because we are not the blow, but what we do after the blow; We are not the host, but what we do after the host; It is not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us. A surprising narrative debut. Jero García's first novel is an extraordinary story about a boy who, despite having everything against him, is able to find his place in the world."

In addition to having the support of the Retiro District Board for the occasion, this CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2024 is part of the #MadridSubelaCuesta action plan that said Association carries out thanks to the support of the Area of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Madrid City Council. The plan foresees the celebration of a series of events to attract new and old audiences to the Cuesta de Moyano, thus contributing to the reactivation of its commercial and cultural activity - after the health crisis that began in 2020 - and in anticipation of the centenary of its location on C/ Claudio Moyano in 2025.

The Association also has the support of the Economy, Innovation and Employment area of the Madrid City Council, with whom it has signed a collaboration agreement for the dissemination of the activities of the aforementioned plan within the framework of the 'Madrid Capital of Fashion' project.

 

COSTUME CONTEST Jury:

CLAUDIA RANUCCI

He was born in Rome but has lived in Madrid since 1997. He studied Design and Illustration at the Higher Institute for Artistic Industries (ISIA) in Urbino. He illustrates for the largest Spanish publishers and also publishes in the US, England and Australia. Since she was very little, she has known that she wanted to draw, so she armed herself with pencils and patience and dedicated herself to realizing her dream. In his free time he helped his uncle in making wedding dresses and his neighbors in their joinery workshop. That is why today she combines her passion for drawing with sewing, designing costumes for children and exploring the infinite possibilities of restless hands. He shares his work desk with a little black cat.

JERO GARCIA

Carabanchel, 1970. Jero García is a cool guy. His verb sounds with the firmness of one who has knowledge of the facts; of which, as his admired Lope de Vega wrote, he knows it because he tried it. It runs free of filters, impostures and derivatives. You don't need them. And, although it does not exhibit this non-need for artifice, it does transmit it in an unconscious and admirable way. Spanish boxing, kick-boxing and full contact champion, trainer with vast experience, president of the FAID-Jero García Foundation, former presenter of the program 'Hermano Mayor', coach, actor and writer. Jero, he said, is a cool guy.

  MARÍA MENÉNDEZ-PONTE

María Menéndez-Ponte considers herself an adventurer with a volcanic and quixotic mind, as proven by the five hundred books that have come out of her head. A danger to humanity! His children and his surroundings of friends have been a constant source of inspiration, as are his grandchildren now. Among his works are the sagas of Pupi, Babak , Primos SA , or The Club of the Brave . There is also the trilogy of I will never be your hero (which has 68 editions with print runs of even 20,000 books), Damned Adolescent , The Bitter Coffee Grounds , If the Heart Dictates , Shadows on the Night of San Juan , The Uninhabited Body , It Begins the ESO . Every man for himself! and Help continues ESO! (Plenty of Obstacles Stage) , Stories from A to Z , or The Big Book of Emotions (more than 100,000 copies sold), The Central Park Carousel , Freckled Jim , My Asperger's and Me , The Big Book of habits , Help, ESO continues! (Stage plenty of obstacles) , Verónica Torres rebels against the world , an autobiographical novel… The last one in the young-adult range has been The disorder of your voice .

YAGO GÓMEZ DURO

Born in Vilagarcía de Arousa in 1991. Also known on social networks as Yago Sparks, he is a Spanish bookstagrammer and writer. He studied Art History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and is passionate about literature and writing. He has read since he can remember, thanks to his mother, who instilled in him a love of books. Among its literary references are the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Bram Stoker, to contemporary figures such as the writer Máximo Huerta, André Aciman and the poet Rupi Kaur. In 2019 he published Al otro lado de la noche , a book of poetic prose that was very well received by the public. Saying goodbye is not forgetting you is his first novel.

 

The SOY DE LA CUESTA Association

SOY DE LA CUESTA is a citizen initiative that started in 2019 with an audiovisual campaign aimed at the revitalization and improvement of the century-old Cuesta de Moyano. Then he had the selfless collaboration of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Rosa Montero, Fernando Aramburu, Javier Sierra, Pío Caro-Baroja, Carmen Iglesias, MARWAN and Javier Rioyo, among others. Today they are all Honorary Members of the Association, along with more than one hundred other members, anonymous citizens from all over Spain, who add to their more than 10,000 followers on RRSS.