Songbooks. Nursery Rhymes

Núria Vilà was a tenured professor of Language Didactics at the Faculty of Education Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Now retired, she has returned to one of her lifelong interests: oral literature and music, and their introduction to young children.

Cristina Correro holds a doctorate in Education and is a philologist, economist, and specialist in children’s literature. She teaches literature didactics at several Catalan universities and at the University of Nantes in France. Her research focuses on children’s literature, teacher training, and literary criticism.

Anna Molins is a musicologist, cultural manager, and passionate bookseller. Specializing in children’s and young adult literature, she has developed projects in the publishing, music, and audiovisual fields. She has a particular interest in oral tradition and its transmission to young children.

Eduard Iniesta is a musician, composer, and guitarist with a long-standing career. A prominent figure in Mediterranean music, he has built a solid reputation as a performer and composer across genres including folk, rock, blues, classical, and world music.

Mercè Galí was born in Sant Llorenç Savall in 1973. She grew up surrounded by books in a bookstore in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona. She studied illustration at La Llotja and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, specializing in engraving. She works in the field of children's and young adult illustration for various national and international publishers, and has published more than fifty books, including some poetry collections. She has received, among others, the 2022 Junceda Award for best illustrated. At the Bologna Children's Book Fair, she was selected for the best Toddler Books 2019. That same year, she was also selected for the Silent Book Contest and in 2022, she was shortlisted in the illustrators' exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Her work has been part of the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava in 2013 and 2023, and has been highlighted in The White Ravens 2022. She has also been awarded at the International Latino Book Awards.