When You Were A Cloud

María José Ferrada (Chile, 1977) is a journalist and writer. She was shortlisted for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award and has received numerous literary prizes, including the Cervantes Chico Prize, the Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, and the Premio Poesía Ciudad de Orihuela.Azul López is a Mexican author and illustrator of picture books. Her books have been published in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, South Korea, The Netherlands, USA, Germany, Greece and Sweden. She was the winner of the 2026 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, the International Award for Illustration from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.Lawrence Schimel (New York City, 1971) is an author, publisher and translator. His translations into English have won a Batchelder Honor from the American Library Association, a PEN Translates Award from English PEN (three times), a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (with Layla Benitez-James).

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