Technical specs
Original title: Metade, metade
40 pages / 155 x 180 mm
ISBN: 9789898145925 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: February 2019
© Rights available for all languages.
Other half
(Portuguese edition)
Half of this book speaks of love, and so does its other half.
Half-whispered, in a half-light, but certainly not half-heartedly, a boy declares his first love.
Who’s never fallen in love?
Who’s never woken up in the middle of a dream, or been struck midway through a sentence, yearning to run halfway round the world for that person who completes them?
Technical specs
Original title: Metade, metade
40 pages / 155 x 180 mm
ISBN: 9789898145925 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: February 2019
© Rights available for all languages.
Awards and recognitions
Recommended — National Reading Plan (Portugal)
Selected — “100 Outstanding Picturebooks” (dPictus), Frankfurt Book Fair (2019, 2020)
What they say
“Other half” offers us a text by Isabel Minhós Martins which is original both in its style and substance: simple, rhythmic and playful. Madalena Matoso’s illustrations are characterised by originality and creativity, contributing to the reader’s visual education.
Deus me livro, March 2019
A book which is without a shadow of a doubt romantic but without being soppy, and which puts on the page that disconcerting and euphoric experience of falling in love. Whatever age that person might be.
Rita Pimenta, Público newspaper, 02/03/2019
The book’s format is small, but what’s inside is all big.
Hipopómatos na Lua blog, 22/03/2019
Our hearts are filled with this love letter of sorts to a treasured better half. I’m certain that at upon reaching the end of this book, many will secretly wish that someone would speak to them what’s inside.
Inês Fonseca Santos, Todas as Palavras, RTP3, April 2019
Wordplay and declaration after declaration without ever being cheesy. A story without a story, but one which is full of life and love. Is that not the loveliest story there is?
Cláudia Lima Carvalho, Timeout magazine, April 2019
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