Deep sea divers swimming alongside fish.
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Mariana Alcántara, illustration for Swimmers, by María José Ferrada (Tapioca Stories). © 2022 Mariana Alcántara.

Tapioca Stories: Draw-Off!

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Join Tapioca Stories illustrators for this live drawing game that’s fun for the whole family! Audience members will be invited to share prompts and drawings with illustrators, who will share their favorite drawing tools, styles, and inspirations as they create. Get your imagination and drawing tools ready! 

Tapioca Stories, a New York-based publishing house with Latin American soul, introduces young English readers to the finest Latin American children’s books, originally written in Spanish and Portuguese.

Special thanks to our partners and promotional sponsors at Let’s Talk Picture Books, Books Are Magic, and Words Without Borders.

Who You'll Meet
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Mariana Alcántara

Mariana Alcántara Pedraza, born in Mexico City in 1991, is the illustrator of Swimmers, by María José Ferrada (Tapioca Stories, 2022). She won the Illustrator’s Catalog at the 2019 Encuentro Valladolid Ilustrado International Children’s and Young Adult Book Fair in Spain, and 3rd Prize at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival in 2018. Her work was included in The White Ravens Catalogue in 2019.

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Yael Berstein

Yael Berstein is the founder of Tapioca Stories, a New York-based publishing house that introduces young readers to the finest Latin American children’s books. Tapioca Stories is her venture to create children’s books that cross borders and connect readers to other ways of thinking and living. 

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Guilherme Karsten

Guilherme Karsten was born and lives in Blumenau, Brazil. His 2019 book Aaahhh! (Tapioca Stories, 2021) received several prizes, including the Golden Pinwheel Grand Award and a Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Plaque. In 2021, he won the Jabuti Award, the prestigious literary Brazilian prize by the Brazilian Book Chamber. His illustrated books have been translated into fourteen languages.

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In the Bookshop

A surprised tiger in a jungle of colorful plants appears blown away by the force of the title "Aaahhh!"

Aaahhh!

A boy and a girl walk towards a revolving door.

The Invisible

A person dreams of swimming where their bed is like a swimming pool and they are surrounded by swimming imagery.

Swimmers

Three people in bathing suits stand in the water.

The Beach

A line of people wait in an apartment building wait for the elevator.

The Elevator