Thursday, May 1, 2025, 21:00
The festive day and good weather encouraged the presence of the public on the second day of the Book Fair, which faces the weekend with an eye on rain forecasts. Tourists and readers agreed yesterday in the surroundings of the temple of Diana, attracted by the monumental wealth of the environment and for activities that had as main protagonists the little ones.
The well -known Extremaduran author Fermín Solís, who presented on the opening day ‘Buñuel and the dreams of desire’, offered a comic workshop for children on Thursday. A dozen minors were able to receive advice from an illustrator and author who has managed to get a place in the national literary landscape.
For Solís, these workshops allow “to promote comics reading among the little ones, which will be adult comics readers.” It also aims to teach drawing techniques and characters development so that new authors arise, since it is “an art that is on the tightrope due to artificial intelligence.”
In his opinion, the comic is a good tool to start children in reading. “Until recently, children were not done in Spain, but of superheroes, for adults and graphic novels, but for a while many editorials that are dedicated to this audience with quite successful have come out,” he explains.
Along with this, this genre has also gained a lot of acceptance among adult readers, thanks to the boom that works such as Maus and Persepolis. “In these times, in which it is consumed so fast, a graphic novel needs less reading time, but can contribute the same,” says Solís.
To this are added successful adaptations to the cinema, as was the case of his work ‘Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles’. “This type of cinema is more independent, but also the comics of superheroes that are adapting to the cinema with a lot of pull,” he says. “In the end, the important thing is that people read.”
Books with values
To deal with children Alejandro del Pino has experience. Children’s and Primary Professor (currently teaches at a Zafra College), and university professor, presented his work ‘Professions impossible to paint green futures’, with which he offers content especially for a children’s audience.
“It is an enlightened album that combines my two passions, teaching and literature,” he explains. “Its two fundamental issues are creativity and ecology.” It presents the pollution monsters, which appear with the bad consumption habits, in front of those who are the people who want to take care of the environment, for which they go to the secret and mysterious Emerald Academy. There they are formed in the impossible professions, as a painter of worlds and teacher of trees, which help fight for a more sustainable future.
“Education in values is very present, the taste for literature and artistic education, since it relies on an enlightened part,” he says.
As a teacher, this story occurred to him by classing the knowledge of the environment and specifically about the production sectors. “I wondered how I could fit from fantasy a proposal that helped children realize that to get a future in which we are all comfortable we must modify our way of interacting with nature,” he says.
This work is intended for children aged 5 to 12, a stage in which it considers it essential to establish the taste for reading. “One of our fundamental goals as teachers in children and in the first cycle of primary is to develop that taste for literature, not only for everything that implies writing and reading at the neurological level, but for what you can learn through reading,” he adds. In his opinion, it is a way to promote creativity in a world in which artificial intelligence has more and more weight.
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