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Blas Rueda´s text is accompanied by colourful, highly detailed illustrations by Blanca Millán which combine to tell the story of Lola who hears a noise a bit like a moo one afternoon while she is sitting at the table drawing pictures of moons and stars. She then discovers that 21 cows have escaped from their cowherd and their home in the sewing box and are now scattered all around the house!
This is the story of a revolution carried out in anonymity with a bodkin as its only weapon and a boy as its hero. The youngest son of the Brailles, a family of leatherworkers, has an accident that causes him to gradually lose his sight. His tenacity and that of the people around him leads to a string of adventures and discoveries that take them much further than we could ever dream.
Bruno's life changes when he finds a top hat with a note inside: "They are waiting for you in New York". He discovers that he has an unusual talent and understands why he has always felt out of place.
Just over a century ago, a family left Sorrento and moved to the Argentine city of Mar del Plata, to open a hotel and later a trattoria near the beach.