Catálogo LIJ Derechos Extranjeros 2025

Jairo Buitrago , born in Colombia, is a children’s book author, illustrator, and researcher in children’s literature and film history. His books have been translated into English, Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Swedish. In 2019, he won Castillo’s Hispanic American Award of Literature for Children and Young Adults. Karina Cocq , born in Chile, holds a degree in Arts and specializes in illustration for children’s and young adult publications. She has exhibited her work internationally and is fond of watercolors, sketchbooks, as well as an admirer of plant life and birds. “Buitrago not only shows to young readers the possible reality of a girl who migrates, but also allows them to experience, through Eva, the possibility of meeting that girl, sharing the back seat, calling her a friend, and learning from her the name of a star.” — Adolfo Córdova (Writer) 29