author/illustrator: Jairo Buitrago, ill. by Maria Ivashkina
ages: 4+
40 pages
19 x 27 cm
Hardback
Spanish
Lecturita
Another Day, Ana
Isn't poetry equal to the rays of the sun coming gently through the window of the house? Ana wants to write a poem today... Well, poems might not be filling her empty notebook yet, but poetry is in the beautiful memories, when the rain falls and when it stops, it is everywhere.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jairo Buitrago is a children’s book author, illustrator, and researcher in children’s literature and film history. He focuses on creating picture books in collaboration with illustrators from various countries. His books have been translated into English, Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Swedish. Publishers such as Leetra, Greystone Books, El Jinete Azul, Amanuta, Babel Libros, Groundwood Books, Saela Shobo, Tramuntana, or Fondo de Cultura Económica de México have released his work. He won the A la Orilla del Viento award in 2007 for Camino a casa, the Hispano-American Award for Children's Fiction Castillo in 2019 for Al principio viajábamos solas, and the Antonio García Cubas Prize for Best Mexican Children’s Book in 2020. He was also nominated for the Kirkus Prize in the United States in 2019 for Walk with Me (the English version of Camino a casa). His books have been selected several times for the IBBY Honour List, and he has also received the SER Award in Brazil, the White Raven from IBBY International, and the ACLI Prize in Colombia.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Maria Ivashkina is an author, artist, and editorial designer. With a degree in architecture, she discovered her passion for the architecture of books and went on to pursue further studies in editorial design. In 2020, she founded her own publishing house, MILE books, and published her first book the following year.
She is now the author and illustrator of four picture books — Komorebi, Sobremesa, Gezellig, A Walk, Saint Petersburg. Quiet Move, and Bookstores Around the World.
In her illustrated stories, she captures the atmosphere of a moment and the poetry of everyday life.
Her books have been translated into six languages, shortlisted for the Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrator Competition 2021 and the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2024, and selected for The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf 2024.