A Quirky Wardrobe

Poet and writer awarded with the 2022 Cervantes Chico. She works as reading and creativity promotor at schools, libraries and cultural centers. She’s specialist in children’s poetry and coordinates the poetry area of Atrapavientos and elsitiodelaspalabras.es, while training creative writing workshops at Fuentetaja. Among other books, she’s the author of the Cherry series, Nicolasa, Where Is Your Home?, Who Is Inside?, I Have Eaten Nothing, What Are They Doing?, and Bits & Bites, which belong to the Marsupiflap series.

Mariana Ruiz Johnson was born in Argentina. She has published books as an author and illustrator worldwide. In 2013, she received the Compostela Prize for Picture Books, and in 2015, she won the Silent Book Contest at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. She is also a winner of the 2025 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition. She is the author of the Quisicosas and Lullabies series and has illustrated the titles Nicolasa, Where Is Your Home? and Maria Seeks the Silver Thimble, published by Combel.