Meet Balam, a boy who could be a cat. Meet Lluvia, a girl who could be the dawn. Balam and Lluvia are siblings who catch fireflies, bid farewell to their pet fish in the bathroom, and wait for Ratón Pérez to collect their teeth.
In Balam and Lluvia's House, the secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found. From the smell of crushed laurel leaves to the whispers of the peach tree in their back garden, every day is a day of discovery. Full of lively and reflective poems, this book invites the reader to run alongside Balam and Lluvia captivated by the world that surrounds them.
Lawrence Schimel’s translation brings the work of acclaimed Guatemalan author and playwright Julio Serrano Echeverría into English for the first time.
Shortlisted for the CLi PPA Poetry Award and The Week Junior Book Awards 2024.
Circa l’autore
Yolanda Mosquera lives and works in the north of Spain near the countryside.
She graduated from the University of the Basque Country college of Fine Arts and majored in graphic design, and has a postgraduate degree in illustration for children's books and publications EINA, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona (2008). She has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, taught art and illustration and hosted creative workshops in Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Since 2011, she has illustrated numerous books from Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay and Italy, including 'The Silence of Water' by Nobel prize-winning author José Saramago, translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa (Seven Stories Press, 2023), the Spanish translation of Guy de Maupassant's classic 'Little Louise Roque', and 'Llévame' by Mercedes Calvo. Her work has been exhibited in Portugal, Korea, China, Italy, USA, Mexico, and most recently at the Bratislava Biennale of Illustration.
She obtained an honorable mention in the Sharjah Exhibition for Children's Books Illustrations Third Edition (UAE, 2014) and was awarded the Euskadi Prize for Literary Illustration (2018), one of the Basque Country's most prestigious accolades.
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