Description
María José Ferrada’s poems are charmingly playful, speaking directly to the reader with no shadow of a doubt that they are ready for these fantastical linguistic adventures. Azul López’s textural, hand-drawn illustrations complement the dreamy tone of the poems and add in room for further interpretations, while Lawrence Schimel’s translation from the Spanish deftly communicates the wry tone and musicality.
About the Contributors
María José Ferrada (Chile, 1977) is a journalist and writer. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. She was shortlisted for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award and has received numerous literary prizes, including the Cervantes Chico Prize, the Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, the Premio Poesía Ciudad de Orihuela, the Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía para Niño, and the New Horizons Prize from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. She lives in Villarrica, Chile.
Azul López is a Mexican author and illustrator of picture books. Her books have been published in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, South Korea, The Netherlands, USA, Germany, Greece and Sweden. Her stories and drawings have received multiple international awards. Most recently, she was the winner of the 2026 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, the International Award for Illustration from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the Green Island award from the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours in South Korea.
Lawrence Schimel (New York City, 1971) is an author, publisher and translator. His translations into English have won a Batchelder Honor from the American Library Association, a PEN Translates Award from English PEN (three times), a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (with Layla Benitez-James), and have been Highly Commended in the CLiPPA, among other honours. He started the Spain chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and illustrators and served as its Regional Advisor for five years. He also coordinated the International SCBWI Conference in Madrid and the first two SCBWI Bologna Book Fair conferences. He lives in Madrid, Spain.
