TRADES OF BYGONE DAYS

 “Oficios de otros tiempos” | María Márquez & Kim Amate | Akiara, Spain | 64 pp incl. cover | 16.5 x 27.5 cm

The trades described in these pages no longer exist or have changed so much that we barely recognize them. But they are a treasure worth preserving. This book is like a small box of memories, preserving the sounds, smells, textures, and colors of an era that we did not experience, but that our grandparents and great-grandparents did. Among its rhymes and verses and old tools and new words, they are clues about what life used to be like. Each poem opens a door to other eras, and each illustration offers a fresh, humorous perspective on these trades. Do you want to become a magician of memories, a guardian of tradition, an explorer of times gone by?

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