Camila Yallouz is a children's book writer and illustrator based in Brazil.
She writes and illustrates believing that stories are bridges and paths: to worlds that seem distant, worlds that we wish to build, and worlds that inhabit within us. Her work is born from the encounter between sensitivity and diversity, bringing to her narratives themes such as connection with nature, inclusion, and fantastic universes.
In books like "Our Fauna" and "Whose Araçá Tree Will This Be?", she brings children closer to nature, creating narratives that invite care and perception of the living relationships that surround us.
In the Inclusion Collection, she brings together titles that dialogue with real and diverse childhoods, such as "The Words and I", "The Pack Is Formed", "All Together", "My Tower Always the Same", "Line of Life" and "On Her Wave" - stories built from attentive listening about belonging and different ways of existing that cross her own experience as an autistic woman.
In "What Happens Along the Way," inspired by the forced displacement of her grandparents, Camila transforms the experience of displacement into a poetic journey, recognizing what is lost, what is transformed, and what remains.
Her books have been nominated for awards such as the Maestro Guerra Peixe and selected by government acquisition programs in Brazil, such as Minha Biblioteca and PNLD.
With a background in Pedagogy, Psychopedagogy, and Montessori Education, she believes that stories are capable of transporting, inspiring, connecting, and traversing worlds within and outside of ourselves.
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