Moussa sueña

Moussa sueña - María Bautista y Raquel Bonita

Moussa Sueña - Foto3 - Raquel Bonita

Moussa Sueña - Foto4 - Raquel Bonita

Moussa Sueña - Foto1 - Raquel Bonita

Moussa sueña - Foto2 - Raquel Bonita

  • Selected for the Sharjah Exhibition of Illustration – United Arab Emirates, 2018
  • Picture Book
  • Illustration
  • Bookolia 
  • 2018
  • Handprinting
  • Spanish rights sold
According to the International Labour Organization 168 million children around the world stop playing every day, victims of child labour. As Moussa, some are in Africa, but there is no continent free of this terrible scourge.

“Moussa Sueña” is a book about the need to dream. Is about the need to change things. Is about the need to play. Moussa is a shepherd, that is the reason why he can still play and dream. But a lot of kids all around the world can’t dream, not only because of child labour but also because they have to bear adults’ bad decisions.

In this picture book, common sense is represented through the wisdom of nature. Moussa asks nature for help and the elephants are who show Moussa the way to find the solution of the problem.

Usually nature has the answer. Is through playing how children and little animals learn how to deal with life. That is the reason why this books defends children’s games. Playing is a foundamental right, because any children deserves to have their childhood’s stolen.

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Moussa Sueña - Ilu1 - Raquel Bonita

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What do critics say about the book?

“[…] Her lines have always fascinated me. And not only me, but also my children. As I supposed, she has done an excepcional job creating a narrative coherence with powerful illustrations […]
[…] This book makes us to think about childhood and the limits and obligations that we impose on it. These limits prevent the free development of each child during that unique moment in their lives in which they build their own identity. At the end we are slaves of a systemic order that does not focus on the individual. An order only concerned about that people are useful for the own system.
This makes me define this picture book as a must, a testimonial piece of our time, of the human condition and of the needs that we have to solve to feel fullfilled.
Laura Richichi – La cuentería respetuosa.

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