El tejado de Benito (Somos8)

by Anuska Allepuz

36 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Anuska Allepuz studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca in Spain and the Academia di Belle Arti di Carrara in Italy, before undertaking postgraduate illustration courses at EINA, Barcelona and the Cambridge School of Art.

A rising talent in the world of illustration, Anuska has been highly commended in the Macmillan Prize for Children’s Illustration and shortlisted for the 2012 and 2014 AOI awards. She is the author-illustrator of That Fruit is Mine! and the illustrator of A Bear is a Bear, written by Karl Newson. Originally from Madrid, Anuska now lives in Cambridge.

Reviews

[Ymbear · Rating 5 out of 5]

How cute is this book! I love the story, the dialog, the lesson and the artwork. As a teacher, I cannot wait to show my students this book! They will love it, especially Bennett. He’s just too cute. In a world of AI that we now live in, I’m happy to see a cover and artwork that is not AI generated. Overall just a lovely book!

I also love how you can get this book in Spanish and English. It’s perfect for me as I teach a lot of bilingual students.

Thank you to the publisher, author and NetGalley for the ARC.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would like to thank Publisher Spotlight/NubeOcho and NetGalley for a free eARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

I don't know what this style of writing is called in which one thing compounds until something changes but this is one of those books. I did like the style (maybe it's not used as much in the US as in Spanish kid books). This is a good book to talk to kids about sharing and cooperation. The illustrations are so adorable. They look like paper cutouts.