A little girl called Dodo asks for a birthday present: a fiz.

This book is a magic proposal to dream about a world full of adventure. It is even, in the words of a critic, “a philosophical treatise” about the beginning of life from a child’s point of view.

The pictures by Rotraut Susanne Berner provide this book with an extra touch of sweetness and plasticity.

“A magical picture book” (Antonio Ventura in Babar).

A little girl wants to listen to some sounds that her friend can’t hear: the rain, the tree, the bird… To do so, you need to pay a lot of attention, ant to be quiet for a while.

A picture book to listen to it and to discover those sounds that touch the reader. A story for those children that have their eyes and ears wide open.

“Be quiet for a while is what we say when we want to hear something that interest us. Be quiet for a while is what we will say to those that try to bother us while we are reading this extraordinary book” (La Oreja Verde, La Nueva España).