Searching the North

The glow-worm plays at being a shooting star, the slug asks for a wish… and then the journey begins to the land of the peach trees, following the polar star, accompanied by the distinct moon phases.

A wish turns into a journey, the journey an encounter, an encounter takes you to search for the north, the north is the place to ask for wishes. The rout itself, more than the final destination, makes the main characters in this story richer, mature and discover new worlds both inwardly and outwardly. A story that helps us see through small eyes in the grass, among the dew drops.

Cecilia Afonso offers us beautiful illustrations using collage, employing paper and threads with pencil and tempera. Through clean and simple figures, the Argentinean illustrator spreads out before us a particular symbolic language, sometimes abstract and with great poetic weight, leaving room for the reader to be surprised, search and find; knowing winks, clues, attracting our attention in a proposal that accompanies and goes beyond the text, inventing a story within the story, that will lead us to search, with the main characters, for the new moon.