Technical specs
Original title: Não é nada difícil — o livro dos labirintos
40 pages / 210 x 290 mm
ISBN: 9789898145833 / RRP: 14,90€
1st edition: November 2017
© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese
It’s not that hard
(Portuguese edition)
We’ve all heard the expression:
“It’s like finding a needle in a haystack!”. It means that something is really really tricky.
But who said that finding a needle in a haystack is all that hard anyway?
This book shows us how many things which might seem to be difficult (and there are many!) could in fact be far easier than we first thought.
In this book, the story develops as you go through each maze (some are easier than others).
There are 14 mazes waiting for you!
Technical specs
Original title: Não é nada difícil — o livro dos labirintos
40 pages / 210 x 290 mm
ISBN: 9789898145833 / RRP: 14,90€
1st edition: November 2017
© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese
Awards and recognitions
Winner — National Illustration Prize (Portugal, 2018)
Selected — Illustrators Exhibition, Bologna Children’s Book Fair (2018)
Honourable Mention — “Children’s Picture Books”, Talking Pictures Selection by the New York Rights Fair (2018)
Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
What they say
“It’s not that hard”, by Madalena Matoso, is one of the best books in the world. The New York Rights Fair, which starts at the end of the month in New York, selected the 30 visual works from all over the world. Amongst them is “It’s not that hard”, by Madalena Matoso.
P3, Público newspaper, 11/05/2018
Each one of the mazes involves a challenge which, beyond its humour, works like a snowball (…).
The illustrations move between a sober black – the colour of the bricks with which these mazes are built, and the fluorescent explosions in yellow and pink which help to create an atmosphere with some fantasy, as we search for the only way out. A book to read with a pencil in one hand and a rubber in the other, in case you don’t find the right track on your first attempt.
Deus me livro blog, 3/01/2018