Mar Pavón 
La noche de los ruidos / Los ruidos de la noche (The Night of the Noises / The Noises of the Night) 

Bronze Medal at the 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. A double story perfect to explain that every noise we hear has its logical explanation. A must-read to learn to deal with fear of darkness, relax and drift off to sleep.

Lolo is a very brave little boy, but when night falls he hides under his sheets, absolutely terrified. When he lies in his bed, in the middle of the darkness, terrifying creatures visit him, such as Truculato the monster, Berruguilda the witch or Cacharrón, the evil monster made of tin and wires who wanders all around the house. Lolo pulls his sheets up higher and higher, trying to scare them away – and the worst thing is the night has only just begun! Each sound he hears become a fearsome monster in his mind, although… what are those sounds? Where do they really come from?

La noche de los ruidos teaches us that not all of the products of our imagination correspond to reality. To overcome our most fearsome fears, we must look them in the eye and face them.

Ganador en los Moonbeam Children’s Book de 2014. Un cuento doble con el que los niños comprobarán cómo todos los ruidos nocturnos tienen su explicación lógica. Una historia perfecta para aprender a lidiar con el miedo a la oscuridad.

Lolo es un niño muy valiente, pero cuando llega la noche se acurruca bajo las sábanas muerto de miedo. Desde su cama, en mitad de la oscuridad, lo visitan criaturas terroríficas, como el monstruo Truculato, la bruja Berruguilda o Cacharrón, el malvado hombre de lata y alambre. Lolo tira más y más de las sábanas, intentando ahuyentarlos… ¡y lo peor es que la noche no ha hecho más que empezar! Cada sonido se convierte en un monstruo temible, aunque… ¿qué son realmente esos sonidos? ¿De dónde proceden?

La noche de los ruidos es un cuento que nos enseñará que todo lo que produce nuestra imaginación a veces no se corresponde con la realidad. Para vencer nuestros miedos más temibles hay que mirarlos cara a cara.

A propos de l’auteur

Mar Pavón is an award-winning author who has published almost 30 children’s books, some of them translated into other languages. She has been awarded six prestigious awards at the International Latino Book Awards, IPPY Awards and the Living Now Awards in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for Clucky the Hen, Clucky in the Garden of Mirrors, Could it Happen to Anyone?, Zaira and the Dolphins, and Clucky and the Magic Kettle, published by Cuento de Luz.María José Olavarría studied Graphic Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile. She is a versatile artist, teaches arts and crafts, paints pictures and overall is a children’s book illustrator.