Maria Jose Ferrada is the author of Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War (Eerdmans). She is a recipient of the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago, as well as the Academy Award from the Chilean Academy of Language. Maria currently works as the children's editor of Chilean Memory, a digital resource center of the National Library of Chile. Maria Elena Valdez studied art in Caracas, Venezuela. She has illustrated books published across Latin America, and she has also collaborated with World Vision Costa Rica and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This is her first book published in English. Maria lives in Barcelona, Spain. Follow her on Instagram @mariaelena.valdez.a or visit her website at mariaelena valdez.com.
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"A book to be read and remembered: a tribute to children whose lives were lost to forces not of their own creation." -- Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW) "This is poetry as remembrance as well as healing. It is also very much one of a kind... These poems are here so that we do not forget. These poems are here so that we always remember." -- Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production (a School Library Journal blog) "The poems are rich with the sensory details of ordinary life...the visual images are as tender and imaginative as the verse." -- Horn Book "A heartfelt volume emphasizing innocence in the face of continuing political violence, this #OwnVoices work is a must-purchase for poetry collections serving young patrons." -- School Library Journal "Dedicated to 'the memory that helps us defeat monsters, ' the childhoods that Ferrada imagines for these young victims of violence--childhoods in which nothing bad happens, and there's enough time for each to do whatever they like--feel both poignant and haunting." -- Publishers Weekly