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"I was discovering that the ground in which childhood and culture met was amazingly interesting... and I felt comfortable in it, because it offered a fertile soil where I could cultivate my two personal passions: imagery and writing on one hand and thought and study on the other."
-From "Childhood and Language in the Frontispiece," an interview with Cristina Pizarro
Graciela Montes's stories give voice to her profound belief in personal freedom and justice and in the right of all people to read, to have access to good books. Following this principle, she has written over a hundred books that have charmed her young readers for years. Throughout her career, she has defended language and literature against those who would silence it and has...