María Wernicke

María Wernicke is an award-winning Argentinian author and illustrator of children’s books. She is a 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominee. She has won the prestigious ALIJA prize in Argentina three times and has had her work included on the steemed White Ravens list from the International Youth Library in Germany. In Brazil, one of her books was included as Highly Recommended by the National Foundation for Children and Youth Literature. Her illustrations have been part of multiple international exhibits, including at the Bratislava Biennial exhibition and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, among others. Learn more about the author at www.mariawernicke.blogspot.com.

Lawrence Schimel is a bilingual author who writes in both Spanish and English, with more than one hundred books to his credit. His children’s books have won a Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a White Raven from the International Youth Library in Germany, and have been selected for lists of outstanding titles by the International Board on Books for Young People. He is also a prolific literary translator, into English and into Spanish. His translated books include Wanda Gàg’s Millions of Cats and George Takei’s graphic novel They Called Us Enemy, among many others. He lives in Madrid, Spain.