Right here, I´m going to recommend some books and talk about literature.

MATILDA

I still remember when I only was eleven years old I read Matilda, a book published in 1988 and written by the great Roahl Dahl (James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,...).

Despite the fact that around the 1990s it was adapted for film by Danny DeVitto (and the good work that was done for it) I prefer and recommend the novel.

In the novel, a girl named Matilda, who never received the attention of her parents, has an intelligence far superior to that of any 5-year-old boy, in addition to being able to develop psychic powers.

THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE

I still remember when I just before entering adolescence I was given this book for my bithday.

It narrates the beginning of this peculiar stage of the life of Rafe a teenager from a complicated family environment and a lover of drawing and illustration who as soon as he enters High Shool, imposes on himself a challenge that will continue throughout the story: skip all the regulations imposed by the Institute.

If you are a teenager who will sonn enter the complicated stage of the High School, I advise you to read this fun picture book.

Finally say that the book were adapted to the cinema in 2018,but in my opinion, the book is more recomendable than the movie.

DALÍ, THE PAINTING WORK

If you are a lover of history of art in Spain,Dalí, the painting work is your book.

It contains a large amount of information about the artistic work of the peculiar spanish painter Salvador Dalí (inspirations, work process).

CREATURES ALREADY FORGOTTEN

The spanish writter Miriam Idrissi Cao (Instinct) brings us with an impressive imagination a novel belonging into the fantasy genre that tells the story of Maya Moreno, a young girl whose life takes a 360º turn when she discovers the existence of a new world innhabited by magical beings and that she too belongs to this...

As a curious fact, the author visited the school where she studied in the past to talk about her book for a lot of children whose future visions were uknown. Currently, one of those girls who attended at that talk, is now blogging about the novel.

SHIVA´S TEARS

I read this novel by César Marroquí when I was only 13 years old.

It is a Spanish novel set in the arrival of man on the moon for the first time (1969) and in the Dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). The story centers on Javier, a teenager who, unfortunately, will spend the summer holidays in Santander with his uncles and surrounded by his four cousins ​​(Rosa, Margarita, Violeta and Azucena); until during the course of his vacation there something happens that was completely out of his plans: the enigma that revolves around a valuable object of his family that has disappeared for seven decades.

REBELS

The author who wrote this book that belongs to the juvenile gender is Susan Eloise Hinton (who wrote the novel when she was 16 years- old.

Caused a lot of controversy during the time it was realased (1967) due to the treatment of violence, alcohol and tobacco consumption among minors, etc.

Tells the story of Ponyboy, a boy who, after the death of his parents in a traffic accident, lives with his two old brothers (Sodapop and Darry) and his also a part of a street gang, "The Greases".

In 1983, the greatest Francis Ford Coppola adapted this novel for film. In the cast you can see a young Tom Cruise play Steve Randle.

FRANKENSTEIN

"If I can´t inspire love,

I´ll unleash fear."

This phrase is part of the classic romantic horror novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, written by the iconic Mary Shelley and published in 1808.

In the story, Victor Frankenstein, a medical student who becomes obsessed with demostrating the possibility of bringing a corpse back to life through the science. To show how the theory is real, gather the different parts of the body of different corpses and then merge these creating the silhouette of a human being. But his creation does not go as he expected, and it is here that he realizes that it is too late, both for him and for everything he loves, because all of it will be destroyed by his own creation, the Frankenstein Monster.

Within the analysis of the novel, it can be seen that it belongs in some aspects to the Gothic novel, but on the other hand many more features of the romantic movement can be seen (the primacy of the creative genius of his own Universe, the poet as demiurge, the imperfect, unfinished and open work versus the perfect, finished and closed work, etc).

It was addapted on several occasions to the cinema: the crazy comedy directed by Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein (1974), Frankenstein (1931), Frankenstein´s bride (1935), Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein (1994), I, Frankenstein (2014), Victor Frnakenstein (2015). But the one that turns out to be the most faithful to Shelley's novel is Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein (directed by Kenneth Brannagh and starring Robert De Niro, who plays Frankenstein´s monster) because it manages to be faithful to the original plot and also preserve the characteristics of romanticism that are reflected in the book.

THE MISTERY OF THE LONE

"if our brains were so simple as to understand it, we would be so stupid that we would not be able to understand it anyway."

Jostein Gaarder (1952)

I confess that I never been a philosophy lover, but this novel written by the norwegian Jostein Gaarder (Sophia´s World, The girl with the oranges) I fell in love enormously.

tells the story of Hans Thomas, a Norwegian boy who goes on a journey with his father to meet his mother in the city of Athens. During that trip, they end up in a small town in Switzerland called Dorf, where Hans receives two gifts: one from a baker, which consists of a muffin with a small book inside; and another by a dwarf, consisting of a magnifying glass. After this, discover the story of a sailor who was shipwrecked until he reached an island where he manages to face his loneliness thanks to a deck of playing cards, giving each one a life of its own and a different function ...

Thus, questions such as: "who are we?" or "what is the true meaning of our lives?".

CLAUDIA

is a novel by Miriam Dubini. It is a youth novel set in the city of Rome and tells the story of Claudia, a misunderstood and elusive bicycle lover who finds it difficult to fit in with other people, even with those who will end up being her friends, Lucia and Emma; until he meets Anselmo, a young man with whom his friendship will go further ...

MY THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Sometimes in life it is difficult to turn the page in a difficult situation.

This is one of the topics covered in this juvenile novel by J.J. JOHNSON, which tells the story of Sara, a teenager who, after the death of her best friend, hides herself in the typical borderline and sarcastic attitude of any tormented and misunderstood teenager.

entertaining, fun and inspiring this story that shows the importance of learning to forget the past and move on.

THE PARTITURE

Of all the books I have read, I especially recommend this novel by Mónica Rodríguez.

In the novel, a young nurse named Marta will live the story of an unrequited love on the part of Daniel Faura, of Russian origin, and one of his patients at the nursing home where she works, and who also in the past was a piano composer, haunted by the dream of succeeding in the world of music and with a woman much younger than him named Sayá Sansar, whom he met on a trip to Mongolia when she was a child. Later he will become obsessed with turning that girl into a prestigious pianist.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Who does not know Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland literature? 

Here I present this classic illustrated by the artist Benjamin Lacombe, one of the most important illustrators in the world, who is characterized by giving the books he illustrates a gloomy, sinister and dark air. In this way, it manages in this case to convey the three previous characteristics in a very similar way to what the filmmaker Tim Burton did in his film adaptation of the novel in 2008.

WHERE THE THREES SONGS

Overcoming, friendship, adventure, fantasy, love ...

These are some of the words with which I describe this fantasy novel written by one of my favorite writers, Laura Gallego (Memories of Idún, Black Wings).

Laura Gallego in this novel takes us to the kingdom of Nortia, in which Viana de Rocagrís (a young woman of the upper class and daughter of the Duke of Rocagrís) will marry in the spring with the young man with whom she has been engaged since they were children, promised, Robian de Castelmar. Unfortunately, during the winter solstice, the news reached the people that the barbarians were going to invade the kingdom...

FINIS MUNDI

Laura Gallego surprised us all with what was her first book, Finis Mundi, whose plot revolves around Michel, a young Cluniac monk who must prevent the end of the world by invoking the Spirit of Time thanks to the three axes (whose whereabouts unknown) under which the Wheel of Time is sustained.

MADAMMA BUTTERFLY

If you liked the book of Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe, then I recommend the book inspired by the Japanese opera Madamme Butterfly, not only for the beautiful story it tells, but also for the illustrations also made by Lacombe himself .

CRONICS OF THE TOWER

Again the brilliant Laura Gallego takes us to a fantasy world with her novel series Cronics of Tower.

It tells the story of Dana, a young woman destined to do great things in the world of magic to become Mrs. de la Torre, but she must give up the love of her childhood friend to do so ...

THE ROOM ABOVE

Based on real events, in this autobiographical novel, Johanna Reiss, currently eighty-nine years old, tells us in the first person her experience when she lived in the Netherlands occupied by the Nazis, and that is that she and her family, due to their condition as Jews , their rights are gradually being diminished, they are gaining hatred, insults, threats and discrimination from all those around them, how they are being rejected by friends and neighbors for fear of the consequences that this entailed at that time, and a long etcetera.

That is why she had to flee her home and hide during the long five years that World War II lasted in a hidden room on the second floor of the house of a couple who hid there, both she and her older sister Sini, so that they are not captured and transferred to a concentration camp.

This heartbreaking true story told by Johanna (she was only about nine at the time) will not only hook you, making you wonder: what will happen? but it will also make you experience the horrors of war in the first person.