Jose Ignacio Valenzuela (1)
Children’s literature is vital in the early ages for the development of magical and everyday realities. Expanding the world and even educating is the expectation that the writers of this type of books have.
This is also the work of the Chilean writer, playwright and screenwriter José Ignacio “Chascas” Valenzuela. Although in his long career, he has dedicated himself to creating more than a dozen soap operas in our country and many other works that make him as recognized as he is today; One of its facets is to write works for youth and children.
That is why “Chascas” Valenzuela made contact with the morning show Radio Concert, Nothing is so serious to talk with Marco Silva and María Elena Dressel, about her new children’s book, ‘A day with dad and dada’.
Book ‘A day with dad and dada’
The book ‘A day with dad and dada’ It is an autobiographical book of her own experience with her husband and daughter. “It’s a book that I started writing in my mind a long time ago,” says the writer. From the “curiosity” of love, Valenzuela begins to form the book by capturing the differences between both of them in exercising parenthood.
“How wonderful love is because it comes from where it comesfrom the latitude or way it comes, is received in the same way. A day with dad and dada in some way it represents that,” he explained. In his own family nucleus and also seen in the play, Valenzuela is the most serene and concerned father, while his husband is the fun and outgoing one.
In addition to being in the middle of promoting this book, Valenzuela ensures that it is found “struggling” where he lives. From Miami Florida, The writer says that his book is censored in the state. “We are in Florida with more than 7 thousand banned books by a law that prevents people from saying ‘gay’ in schools, public libraries and public universities. Because of the ‘Don’t say gay’ law, “This book is banned in Florida.”
On the other hand, Valenzuela He added that he just finished writing a series for Netflix. It is a thriller that apparently would hit the screens of the platform in November of this year. streaming.
