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Origins Collection · Volume I · The Adventures of Martín the Wizard
A brontosaurus who learns not to fill the silence
An enormous brontosaurus has little ears on his forehead that vibrate when someone needs something. The problem is that knowing how to hear the signal isn’t the same as knowing what to do with it.
The Valley That Listens is a story about the difference between accompanying and solving, between filling silence and holding it. In seven chapters that move from comic error to precise emotion, Chiquitín learns the hardest thing: that staying still isn’t doing nothing. It’s doing the most difficult thing — stopping doing everything else.
Active dual readership: the child who identifies with the one who needs to be heard; the adult who recognizes how many times they’ve filled silences that were asking for the opposite.
Genre Children’s & YA · Illustrated fiction · ~12,000 words
Target Ages 7–12 · Read-aloud from age 5
Comparable titles: The Duck, the Dog and the Castle (Klassen) · Shy (Bergman/Eriksson) · The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Mackesy)
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