Diary of a Seaside Love Story

Ages 4 to 8, Grades K to 3

An ode to love and a positive attitude through fun, colorful, and action-packed images that challenge the reader to decipher how many stories unfold.It all begins with a peaceful stroll along the seaside. A love-struck dog has found the love of its life, or so it believes. But that's not the only thing that will happen...Here is an illustrated album representing an ode to love and a positive attitude. It is a narrative and illustrative game that offers us a story of love—or perhaps two or even three. Who knows!It will be the reader's task to discover how many stories can unfold in the same setting, where symbolism and metaphor come together to offer us a "sea" of enjoyable reading. A message of positivity and perseverance in the face of our goals and objectives; only in this way can we distance ourselves from negative feelings such as frustration.Maintaining a constructive attitude will allow us to make the most of things and will ensure that, no matter what happens, we always extract the best from every situation. Because if, despite trying, things don't turn out as we expected... It doesn't matter!There is no room for discouragement or defeat. We always have the option to try again, even more eager and stronger.And of course, it's also a nod to love, an invitation to look "with eyes of the heart," to be happier and to make others happier too.

About the Author

Azahara Castillo (Granada, Spain, 1986). A graduate with a Bachelor's and Master's in Law from the University of Granada, she always found solace in books and writing. At the same time, her imagination became her means of transportation to visit impossible places. Known on social media as "Cuentitis Crónica," she has spent years writing literary reviews to promote reading, especially in children and young adults, considering it the most fundamental stage of a human being's development. Currently, she actively collaborates with educational platforms and literary magazines. As a child, she wrote her own stories and dreamt of the day she would share them with the world. Today, alongside raising her two children, she combines her roles as a writer with literary criticism, professional text editing, legal and literary consulting, and creating copyright content for publishers and authors.Blanca Millán, born in 1991 in a small town in the municipality of Touro, Galicia, is an award-winning illustrator who has been drawn to the world of art from a young age, filling the walls of her home with small drawings using crayons. She studied Fine Arts at the Pontevedra School in Spain and later pursued a master's degree in illustrated books. Since her first publications in 2017 with "MANUELA" and "A MAGIA DE MAMÁ," she has produced more than 20 titles in Galician, Spanish, and English, with more to come.