Technical specs
Original title: Conta-quilómetros
40 pages / 215 x 195 mm
ISBN: 9789898145741 / RRP: 12,90€
1st edition: June 2016
© Rights sold: Korean, Spanish
Odometer
(Portuguese edition)
A journey is a story. And a story is a journey, isn’t it?
At the wheel of this book, readers will decide their destiny and how they want to travel: on a short walk or a long expedition? At a lick or a snail’s pace? Along mountain paths or the coastal road?
On this adventure, the initial plan doesn’t have to be followed. Unexpected landscapes, unforeseen situations and crossroads will appear, leading readers away from their planned destination…
Technical specs
Original title: Conta-quilómetros
40 pages / 215 x 195 mm
ISBN: 9789898145741 / RRP: 12,90€
1st edition: June 2016
© Rights sold: Korean, Spanish
Awards and recognitions
Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
What they say
An odometer is synonymous with movement. Watching it change tack becomes almost addictive.
Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine, October 2016
4 Stars in Expresso newspaper
There’s minimal text and this is one this book’s great qualities – knowledge of how to create a narrative which doesn’t do away with verbs entirely but where the scarcity of words ends up permitting a narrative complexity much more intense than you might imagine.
Sara Figueiredo Costa, Expresso newspaper, 17/09/16
A book (…) whose drawings are full of fabulous details to be discovered as the car rolls along the road and the odometer advances.
Gabriela Lourenço, Visão magazine, 02/08/2016
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