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At this point, Agus & Monsters, with fifteen titles already on the shelves, are already part in the imag-ination of many readers today at an age when they are starting to discover the great works of young literature. From the start, Copons & Fortuny wanted their main characters to have the support and encouragement of grownups. This is why we shouldn’t be surprised that figures like Asterix and Obelix, Baron Munchausen, Fer-dinand the bull, the Grinch, Mafalda, Marcelino, Peter Pan, Pippi Long-stocking, Robinson Crusoe, Scrooge, Tarzan, Tintin, Tom Sawyer and Ul-ysses walk through the pages of any Agus and the Monsters title; nor that it is possible to suddenly take a brief trip, in the middle of an adventure, to Ithaca, Treasure Island, where the wild things are, Willy Wonka’s choco-late factory, planet B612 in The Little Prince, Kipling’s jungle or Paul Auster and Woody Allen’s New York.

Our world is also made up of legends and stories that have fed our imagina-tion since childhood, and although theday we are grown up inevitably arrives, we will always

carry Alice, Pinoc-chio, Red Riding Hood, the ugly duckling and Pedro Melenas inside our heads and hearts. And if we agree to embark on the literary journey proposed by the enthusiastic Mr. Flat and jump from book to book, as the sixth title in the series says, from author to author, character to character, scene to scene and period to period, between the lines we will also be preparing ourselves for other stories in the future, for works that lie ahead for us later on our reading journey, tales that will make us more human, more critical, more free: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Three Musketeers, The Catcher in the Rye, Henry V, Ulysses, A Brave New World... Rostand, Dumas, Salinger, Shake-speare, Joyce, Huxley... Welcome everybody, come in and read.

Agus & Monsters A good tool for working on reading comprehension You know that the series has a lot of fans, right? Over 600,000 books sold worldwide means that many of you have read them, but it is also very important to assimilate what you read, to understand all the adventures of this gang of monsters and their friends, and activate your reading comprehension 100%. Don’t let Dr. Brot hurt you!

Each adventure contains tools to help you work on your reading com-prehension: a self-assessed test and printable reading guide with lots of activities on each chapter designed to test readers’ attention. You’ll find them all on the website agusandmonsters.com/en

For sure Ziro would tell you that answering the ten questions in the test and being able to check your results immediately is a great way to find out if you have really been concentrating on what you have read. What’s more, all the ques-tions are designed to work on the com-prehension processes required by in-ternational tests that are used to evaluate reading performance. And the results of the test are sent directly to your teachers. As fast and effective as Hole!

The reading guide includes differ-ent types of activities to work on what we have read: looking for informa-tion, matching, inferences, classifica-tions... Furthermore, the solutions to all the activities in the guide appear on the website, available for regis-tered teachers.Don’t you think this is a great way to work? Go to agusandmonsters.com/en, download the monstrous materials and... get those brains in gear!

The art of the literary cameoIn the screen world, a brief appearance from a famous person in a film or a TV series is known as a cameo. But do we also see this in books? Indeed we do, and the writers of the series Agus & Monsters, Jaume Copons and Liliana Fortuny, have proved that literary cameos are not just possible, but are also very effective and help enrich the plot.

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1 Here comes Mr. Flat!

• The Treasure Island by r. l. stevenson

• Peter Pan by james barrie

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by mark twain

• The Wind in the Willows by kenneth grahame (illustrated by ernest howard shepard)

• Baron Munchausen by g. a. bürger

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by jules verne

2 Let’s Save the Nautilus!

• Alice Adventures in Wonderland by lewis carroll

• The Catcher in the Rye by j. d. salinger

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by roald dahl

• The Odyssey and The Iliad by homer

• Asterix the Gaul by r. goscinny and a. uderzo

3 The Park Song

• Cyrano de Bergerac by edmond rostand

• Henry V by shakespeare

• Murder in Mesopotamia by agatha christie

• The Jungle Book by rudyard kipling

• Tarzan of the Apes by edgar rice burroughs

songs• “Mystery Train”

by elvis presley

• “Slow Train” by bob dylan

• “Train in Vain” by the clash

• “Blue Train” by johnny cash

• “Long Train Running” by the doobie brothers

4 The War of the Forest

• Where the Wild Things Are by maurice sendak

• The Little Prince by antoine de saint-exupéry

• Max and Moritz by wilhelm busch

• Take the Money and Run by woody allen

• The Lord of the Rings by j.r.r. tolkien

• Dadaist Poems by tristan tzara

song• “Kodachrome”

by paul simon

A new canon for Children and Juvenile LiteratureLiterature works and cultural references featured in Agus & Monsters series:

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5 The Legend of the Sea

• Typhoon by joseph conrad

• The Old Man and the Sea by ernst hemingway

• Robinson Crusoe by daniel defoe

• Pinocchio by carlo collodi

6 The Day of the Book of the Galaxies

• The Cyberiad (“The third sally, or The dragons of probability”) by stanisław lem

• Around the World in 80 Days by jules verne

movies• Star Wars

by george lucas

• Alien by ridley scott

7 Book by Book

• The Story of Ferdinand by munro leaf and robert lawson

• The Meditations by marco aurelio

• Little Red Riding Hood by the grimm brothers

• Pippi Longstocking by astrid lindgren

8 With the Highest Card

• Superman by jerry siegel & joe shuster

• Marcelín by sempé

• Struwwelpeter by heinrich hoffmann

• The Ugly Duclikn and The Steadfast Tin Soldier by h. c. andersen

• Ulises by james joyce

• Harpo Speaks! by harpo marx

9 Jumping Time

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by mark twain

• Peter Pan by james barrie

• Kalila and Dimna. anonymous

• Brave New World by aldous huxley

song• “Forever Young”

by bob dylan

movie• Final Speech from The

Great Dictator by charlie chaplin

Merry Christmas, Dear Monsters!

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by dr. seuss

• Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story by paul auster

• A Christmas Carol by charles dickens

Mentions to Xmas legendary characters such as The Three Kings, Befana, Olentzero, Yule lads, Noel, tomte, bendegums, Belsnickel, Ded Moroz, Zwarte Pieten or Babushka.References to cultural figures at Père Lachaise Cemetery: Jim Morrison, Chopin, Apollinaire, Balzac, Stéphane Grappelli, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf, Delacroix, Méliès, Yves Montand or Callas…

songs • “All Together Now!”

and “For Christmas” originated by The Unreal Peep Band specially for the book.

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Agus & Monsters, since 2014.A series by Copons & Fortuny.

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The Night of Dr. Brot• Bob Dylan All the Songs:

The Story Behind Every Track

• Moby Dick by herman melville (1851)

• Tarzan of the Apes by edgar rice burroughs book & film

• Tintin in Tibet by hergé

• From the Earth to the Moon by jules verne

• The First Men in the Moon by h. g. wells

movie• A Trip to the Moon

by georges méliès

song• “Girl from the

North Country” by bob dylan

The Nightmare Tree• Alice Adventures

in Wonderland by lewis carrol

• “The Cottingley Fairies” and The Coming of the Fairies by arthur conan doyle

• Sherlock Holmes series by arthur conan doyle

• The Adventures of the Little Onion by gianni rodari

song• “You don’t have

to choose”, originated by the unreal peep band specially for the book

The Lost Treasure

• Shrek! by william steig

• Moby Dick by herman melville

• Tintin in Tibet by hergé

movies• The Treasure Island

by stevenson • The Beatles - Yellow

Submarine film by george dunning (1968)

Cultural Olympiad• Anthology of poems

about the Moon: Mentions to poems by Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Jorge Luis Borges, popular songs, Ballad of the moon, moon y Federico García Lorca, Lorca, T. S. Eliot, Mallarmé, Leopardi, Carner, J. V. Foix...

• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by g. a. bürger

• The Princess Bride book by william goldman & film by rob reiner

General culture references: from the light bulb story, Mandela, Fender, Gibson, John Lennon, One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez, The Oddissey by Homer.

songs• “We are

the Champions”, by queen

• “Born to Run”, by bruce springsteen during born in the usa tour in 1984/85.

Virus• The Wizard of Oz

by lyman frank baum & film

• The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson by selma lagerlöf

Advice for monstrous readers and collectorsGet everything you need before starting to read. Download and print your bookmark to make reading fun by styling your new Agus copy. And most of all, don’t forget to mark your book with care!

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