THE PUBLISHER
In Planeta Tangerina we work mostly with picture books – where text and images work together creating a unique outcome, impossible to achieve if both codes (written and visual) don’t harmonize, without overlaps or redundancies but rather, relating, completing, making adjustments and readjustments, seeking the equilibrium between them.
For all these reasons, we like to create picture books: because there are different types of ingredients on the table that we can handle and a thousand ways of mixing them and also because there are no fixed formulas. We like the idea of everything being open, everything being possible. Experts say that picture books are nowadays "one of the most challenging areas of freedom and experimentation" and we can only agree. We try to walk on this huge (and fascinating) territory with respect, striving at every stage, from the filtering of ideas, experiences or the phase of the choice of materials. We have two house rules: not to fall into formulas and to always challenge our readers (they deserve it).
Our readers are not only children, but all parents and adults who enjoy illustrated albums and their unique way of storytelling. We know that our books are sometimes not the most "easy" ones but we like to think that a picture book is a meeting point for readers of various kinds, that some will open doors to others, that big and small will find their own keys in the discovery of a book.
We hope our readers will join us in this enthusiasm...
