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The journalist Patricia del Río presented her book ‘From the Moon’ yesterday at the El Virrey de Miraflores bookstore, with which she ventures into children’s literature.
The host of the literary and cultural podcast ‘Letters in Time’ also signed the book of the people who acquired ‘From the Moon’, which tells the story of a girl who lives on the moon and who, despite the darkness of space, has fun, plays and is happy.
From the river He explained that his work shows the importance of taking risks in making decisions and that, if it had not been for the health complications as a result of the breast cancer that was detected, the book would not have been published.
“I must confess that probably if it had not been for certain health issues… there I said things are done or done, otherwise we spend our lives without doing what we want,” he told RPP.
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“In this case, what we have is a girl who is not afraid to follow her instincts, to seek the world; That the child is put in the situation of sometimes I’m afraid or sometimes I don’t dare, but there’s nothing wrong with her exploring new things,” she added.
The communicator reiterated that the book has illustrations that accompany the texts and can be summarized as the story of an adventure and the desire to conquer the world, a dilemma that – she said – not only applies to the work, but to life.
What is ‘From the Moon’ about?
It is a story where the protagonist is a being from another world, a girl who lives on the Moon and who, despite the darkness of space, has fun, plays and is happy.
However, as is often the case with little ones, their ability to observe leads them to explore their surroundings and want to know more.
Precisely, that curiosity invades the character of the story who one day decides to change the world and see what is on Earth.
To reach it, he descends from the Moon with the help of a curious rope made of unthinkable and innumerable objects.
Another feature of ‘From the Moon’ It is the interaction that exists between the story and the illustrations.
About, Patricia del Rio He stated that “children’s texts, in the new trends and versions that are being worked on today, which are like illustrated albums, what they seek is that the drawing is not a repetition of the text, but rather that they converse.”
