Rights Information

Already sold:

Dutch (Uitgeverij Querido)
English (Gecko Press)
French (La Joie de Lire)
German (Carl Hanser Verlag)
Italian (Logos Edizioni)
Korean (Booklight Publishing)
Portuguese, Brazil (LRV)
Slovenian (Sanje)

Reviews

«Issa Watanabe captures the full range of the characters’ emotions in her detailed pictures with soft, flowing strokes: fear and hope, pain and grief, despair and solicitude. There are currently many children’s books that focus on displaced people and migration; its simplicity, intensity and touching beauty makes “Migrantes” a stand out.

The White Ravens 2020 editors

«Migrants is a perfect book: it is deeply emotional, unsentimental, dignified,
respectful, beautiful. I love that it is about courage, getting up, continuing on,
starting again. It demands full emotional attention and makes us want to read it
again and again. Readers cannot fail to be moved by the journey of these migrants.
We love that it applies to any and every migration and we feel that with this book,
no other book about this topic will ever be necessary." Julia Marshal, Gecko Press

Author Biography

Peru, 1980. She is the daughter of an illustrator and a poet. She studied Literature
at the P. Catholic University of Peru in Lima and later moved to Mallorca,
where she studied Fine Arts and Illustration. She has led and developed several
projects to promote social integration through art, obtaining, in 2012, the Obra Social
prize at La Caixa Forum. As an illustrator, she has published several titles, including
Más te vale mastodonte, written by Micaela Chirif, winner of the Competition
A la Orilla del Viento (FCE). Since 2013, she has been a guest of honour to give
lectures and workshops at numerous international fairs Selected to be part of
the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Book Fair 2018.