Fran Nuño 
Luces de feria (Fairground Lights) 

Winner at the 2013 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Visit this fair full of magic, where a simple movement of the hand can set in motion all the rides.

Once upon a time, my dad took me to a very special fair a long, long way from home. As soon as we arrived, he asked me to wave my hands in the air like a magician so that the lights would turn on or off as I pleased.

“It’s amazing!” I shouted with joy.

Today my dad has taken me to the fair, and you can’t imagine how excited I am. It is a magical place, full of lights, colors, music and, above all, fun! However, this fair has something special that makes it different from the others… A witch has hung up her broom to become the driver of a flying train, a snow-capped Helter Skelter, and Bumper Cars that can zoom off to wherever the driver wants and ride through the venue… This fair seems to have come to life!

Ganador de los Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards en 2013. Visita esta feria llena de magia, en donde un simple movimiento de mano pone en marcha todas las atracciones.

Una vez, mi padre me llevó a una feria muy especial, muy lejos de casa. Nada más llegar, me pidió que moviera mis manos como un mago para que las luces se encendieran o apagaran a mi antojo.

—¡Es fantástico! —grité emocionado.

Hoy papá me ha llevado a la feria, y no os podéis imaginar qué ilusión me hace. La feria es un lugar mágico, lleno de luces, colores, música y, sobre todo, ¡diversión! Sin embargo, esta feria tiene algo especial… Una bruja ha colgado su escoba para ser maquinista de un tren volador, montañas rusas que parecen auténticas montañas cubiertas de nieve, autos de choque que salen de la pista al antojo del conductor y se pasean por el recinto… ¡Esta feria parece haber cobrado vida!

Over de auteur

Fran Nuño was born in Bilbao in 1973 but lives in Seville, Spain. He is a writer, cultural promoter, and bookseller-editor. Author of some forty published books, almost all of them children’s literature, among which there are novels, stories, poetry, theater pieces, manuals and picture books. He has received several awards and mentions, both for his literary work and for his work in favor of reading. He won the Gold Medal for Best Illustrated Album in Spanish at the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2013 for Fairground Lights (Cuento de Luz) was awarded Best illustrated album for all ages at the New York City Big Book Award 2017 for The Map of Good Memories (Cuento de Luz). His work has been translated into Galician, Valencian, Catalan, English, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Mandarin, and Korean.
Enrique Quevedo was born in Cádiz, Spain, in 1967, and currently resides in Seville. From a very young age, Enrique was interested in drawing and also in the operation of mechanical devices, which led him to study Fine Arts in Seville, where he majored in painting. Today, he is a full-time illustrator, mostly working on children’s picture books (The Great Magician of the World, Fairground Lights, The Dance of Time…) and collaborating with the Sevillian gallery La Caja China. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Barcelona, Jerez and at the ARCO Fair in Madrid. In 2012 he was awarded Gold Medal for Best Illustrator at the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2012 and in 2014 he won gold again in the category of Best Children’s Book of the Living Now Awards in the United States.