Since 2016, the School decided as part of its pedagogical strategy, institutional promotion and support to teaching processes, to create the José Max León Bilingual School publisher house.

With books of high literary interest, which allows the development of multidisciplinary projects and integration with other cultural entities and / or that make visible the initiatives of teachers, students and other participants of the educational community.

This new book talks about the power of opposites and conflict resolution by appreciating the difference.

The use of bilingualism in a tool that allows the two characters that collide and build from their differences, to have a deeper development, highlighting the power of dialectic. If in order to build with the other I must respect it, study it and try to understand it, the ability to incorporate another language into my universe is the one skill that will make it easier for me.

This book is compiled by the Editorial Colegio Bilingüe José Max León, it has 10 short stories and illustrations that address the issue of the pandemic from a more humorous and light side in which the characters are related to each other and their anecdotes turn out to be the testimonies of individuals facing this crisis from different corners and different perspectives.

For this work we got together with the Bogota artist José Alejandro Arboleda, who through his eyes managed to create dreamy images that exist to reach our soul and make us feel identified.

Écfrasis is the first publication in this series is a co-edition between Colombia and Brazil, in which filmmakers from both countries share their short films with an equal number of poets, so that they can interpret it through poetry.

The result of this experiment is a text that shares between the audiovisual language and the poetic verse, published in both Spanish and Portuguese, with a digital version and a version for print on demand.

Participate: Publisher José Max León Bilingual School, Editorial Escarabajo y Editorial Brasil Quixote + Do.

This poetic anthology seeks the ambitious goal of bringing together 150 contemporary poets from around the world around the theme of the winds, their poetic meaning and the metaphors of liberation, migration, movement and memory that can be woven around them.

Those responsible for the call and literary curation are the poet Marisa Russo of the American publishing house New York Poetry Press, the Argentine poet Esteban Charpentier and the Colombian-Dutch poet Robert Max Steenkist. The editorial production will be carried out under the publishing labels José Max León Bilingual School – Colombia and Echarper – Argentina.

149 authors from 78 countries on five continents participate in this anthology, each one with a particular look at trees, at the miracle of being born from a seed, growing during silences and becoming the majestic beings that inhabit the forests with their deep roots.

It is a tribute to the resistance, harmony and nobility of the world’s trees. This multicultural encounter allows the reader to get closer to a diversity of languages, alphabets and particular views of the poets on trees. In addition to the original languages, 37 in total, the book contains translations into Spanish and English thanks to the collaboration of professionals from the Antoine Berman Literary Translation Workshop of the University of Antioquia.

The accompanying botanical illustrations were contributed by the Fundación Tropenbos Colombia and made by the indigenous Marcela Yukuna, Enrique Hernández, Diego Román and Abel Rodríguez belonging to the ancestral peoples of the Colombian Amazon jungle.

This book was launched in 2018 in Colombia and Argentina with a total of 1,000 copies, it has also enabled ecological and social initiatives, such as reforestation days and support for foundations that serve early childhood (Editorial Coedition Colegio José Max León- Colombia, Editorial Echarpen – Argentina).

On April 1, 2017, the rivers of Mocoa, Mulatos and Sancoyaco in Putumayo, overflowed, leaving a balance of more than 2000 victims.

From Solidarity to Hope is a children’s story that reflects the experience in the classroom, of explaining to the CBJML Preschool children the dimension and the reason for the tragedy. We think that it is not just about activating actions of immediate generosity, which the College led, but about raising awareness about what happened.

The children participated in the collection and classification of food collected for donation purposes and through this story-game reflections on caring for the planet, construction of critical thinking and commitment to particular actions were made possible that allow, from an early age, to be participants in a better dwell on earth.

Anthology for the butterfly is a tribute to the diversity, the transformation capacity and the beauty of the enigmatic animal from different parts of the world. It brings together 49 poems in their original language, 11 in total, translated into English and Spanish, dedicated to this mysterious and colorful insect.

It integrates poetic realities as diverse as mythology, spiritual narrative, the value of the ephemeral, the power of transformation, and even the power of vanity.

Anthology for the butterfly was released in the 26th version of the Medellín International Poetry Festival in June 2016. It has been presented at the “Love, Hope and Wisdom” Poetry Festival in Prague, Festival Ars poetica in Bratislava, Slovakia, Festival Las líneas from his hand in Bogotá, the PoeMARio Festival in Barranquilla and the Medellín Book and Culture Festival.

It is a tribute that 126 poets pay to the phenomenon of the flow of water. This book thus connects regions, experiences, adventures and feelings, blurring borders and twinning towns in its journey. It is a book that brings together authors from the five continents around stories, mythology, memory and the powerful symbolism that is concentrated in the world’s rivers.

The poems are published in the original languages of the poets, in English and Spanish. The illustrations are interventions of satellite photographs of various rivers in the world, made by the Argentine illustrator and editorial designer Peter Tjebbes.

This anthology has accompanied ecological and social responsibility initiatives such as tree planting days in the Chicú river basin in Cota, Cundinamarca and the sponsorship of the PIBES Foundation in Buenos Aires Argentina, dedicated to improving the quality of life of children in a situation risk and replicating an ecological initiative by planting a tree for each book sold and using the proceeds to improve the infrastructure of schools and community kitchens supported by the foundation.

The Colombian edition launched in 2017 was sponsored by Industrias Alimenticias Alpina S.A and the support of the Humboldt Institute.