Cristina plays

Micaela Chirif and Paula Ortiz
Bogotá, Cataplúm, 2021
ISBN: 978-958-53005-7-6

♦ Highly recommended by Fundalectura IBBY Colombia
♦ The Best Books. Banco del Libro

The space of a secret game is the center of this book, written in a poetic tone and illustrated with careful attention to every detail of a doll’s house -one of the settings where the action takes place-, as well as attending to a vibrantly colored palette that seeks to take us to another time and another space. This is how this book becomes a proposal that will literally surprise the reader.

Comments

Could we bring together the transitional object in childhood with poetry and graphic cleverness in a book that is at the same time a museum? Prescribed to create a refuge, immense and powerful in ourselves, ‘Cristina plays’, is written by Micaela Chirif and masterfully illustrated by Paula Ortiz, and to make a trinity, with a label that deserves it, Cataplum Books.

Something beautiful, small and delicate becomes something immense and protective. Between them, beauty and imagination have always happened, since the game, as we have insisted so many times, is the highest work of childhood and teaches us about all the paths of the possible as well as the indomitable.

Lucas Insignares