Dolores – who calls herself Liluye [Hawk’ Scream] lives with her grandma, aunt and cousins. One day her beloved grandma, her only companion in the world, goes to bed never to wake up again… This tragic event will mark the beginning of the adventure of Liluye. Felipe, her brother, reappears after four years trying his luck in the United States. By car, they shall cross the desert and learn more about themselves, as they meet other characters and beasts that will reveal to them a resilient primitive world. A short story written by the acclaimed Colombian writer Jairo Buitrago, ingeniously illustrated by Blanco Pantoja.

Jairo Buitrago

Bogotá, Colombia, 1970 Writer of children's books, illustrator and researcher in children's literature and film history. He is dedicated to the creation of book albums, along with Colombian and foreign illustrators. His books have been translated into English, Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Swedish.
He is inspired by fragments of his own experience and that of others that have influenced his imagination. His stories, despite never leaving aside candor and adventure, always present a critique of the injustices that Latin American and universal society exerts on children and their environment.


Blanco Pantoja
Santiago, Chile, 1983

Illustrator, writer and editor. His constant interdisciplinary research and development has led him to collaborate on music, film and theater projects. He has been included in the IBBY Honor List (2012, 2018), in the White Ravens list (2017) and has twice received the Colibrí-IBBY Chile Medal (2015, 2017) for his work on the publications Miltín 1934, Animal and Un diamante en el fondo de la tierra [A diamond at the bottom of the Earth].

He also conducted classes and workshops on illustration and literature at fairs and universities in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Boston, Medellín and Lima. Since 2017 he has been a professor of the Diploma in Illustration at the Universidad de Chile and since 2021 he is an Extension professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile.