★ Simplified Chinese rights sold!
★ Awarded the WHITE RAVENS 2020!
★ Awarded the BETTER INNOVATIVE IDEA 2020!
★ Awarded the GRAND PRIX BIB 2021!
★ Elena Odriozola was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2024!
★ This illustrated book is a philosophical proposal for both children and grownups to think about feelings – both the text and the illustrations encourage deep reflection.
★ Full English transaltion available.

This book is to look at it slowly, to be read in company, to raise questions, to chat... In brief, to make a daily experience out of philosophy.

How is envy different from jealousy? Why is there pain and a little pleasure when we feel nostalgic? Is guilt more painful than shame? By looking at different situations experienced by seven characters who inhabit a single house, the reader can explore their own feelings, as well as those of the characters. The reader is also invited to reflect on the subtleties that make each of these feelings unique; they may even gain insights into how we often wrongly interpret our feelings.

This books lends itself to many different readings. Some readers will perhaps focus and reflect on everything that is happening in a single vignette. Others might follow the deeds of one character throughout a range of illustrations. The book can be read from start to finish or by just focusing on one of the 16 emotional categories represented within it. Nevertheless, the best taste is always provided by the carefully considered combination of text and illustration. At all times we can see what each character is doing in a specific situation in terms of one of these core feelings; or we can do this the other way around - once a feeling is found in the text, we can find an image that best illustrates it.

Gustavo Puerta Leisse (Author)
Is a Philosophy teacher, editor, literary critic and expert in children’s literature. He founded the Children’s Literature Peripatetic School and is currently the editor of the cultural magazine for kids ¡La Leche!. He is co founder of the publishing house Ediciones Modernas el Embudo. Sentimientos encontrados is his first book as an author.

Elena Odriozola (Illustrator)
An award-winning illustrator and co-editor. With Gustavo Puerta, she co-founded Ediciones Modernas el Embudo in order to publish some of her more personal and ludic works. Her illustrations have received many awards, including Spain`s National Award, the Euskadi Award, the International Junceda Award and the Bratislava Golden Apple. In 2024, she was on the shortlist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award!
Besides, she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024) and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020).