Technical specs
Original title: Coração de mãe
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145048 / RRP: 11,90€
1st edition: May 2008
16th printing: February 2022
© Rights sold: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Complex and Simplified), French, Greek, Italian, Spanish
A mother’s heart
Cardiologists and other scientists discovered something recently that awed the world. While observing a mother’s heart in detail, they discovered that this organ is more than a muscle that never stops beating… it’s a magical place where the most extraordinary things can happen.
But how?
These scientists discovered that a mother’s heart is linked with their child’s heart by a thin, nearly invisible thread — which is the reason why everything that happens to their children makes something happen inside a mother’s heart. Like this:
“When her children laugh,
a mother’s heart starts dancing.
When her child is sad,
a mother’s heart breaks into a thousand tiny pieces.
When her child is ill,
a mother’s heart turns to jelly (and becomes much, much
smaller…).
But a mother’s heart grows back to normal
When her child Einally gets better!”
Technical specs
Original title: Coração de mãe
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145048 / RRP: 11,90€
1st edition: May 2008
16th printing: February 2022
© Rights sold: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Complex and Simplified), French, Greek, Italian, Spanish
What they say
Immediate, inventive and graphic illustrations from the award-winning Bernardo P Carvalho, with accurate, absolute and poetic sentences by Isabel Minhós Martins (…).
Cláudia Moura, Notícias Magazine — Diário de Notícias supplement, June 2008
The great merit of this book is in its ability to evoke a symbolic language, that is straight forward without being literal, speaking between the lines instead of being overly emotional. Text and illustration play together on the page, completing each other without overlapping, thus interpreting the whole range of the metaphors.
Carla Maia de Almeida, LER magazine, september 2008