My Project in a Nutshell

Un Cumpleaños de Malabares / One Juggling Birthday

Picturebooks are artifacts that embrace discovery and exploration. Through their playfulness, multimodality, and materiality, children can learn new ways of reading stories.

My picturebook Un Cumpleaños de Malabares, or One Juggling Birthday, challenges the notion of the standard children’s book by “de-constructing” the structure of the page-book and adopting a non-traditional book design. By shifting the design, I hope to question the boundaries between books and toys, and discover where these two interconnect. The project focuses on discussing relevant contemporary Latin American social issues to an audience of children and adults alike, by exposing these themes in the narrative and illustrations.