Boris Orbis y la Vieja de la Calle 24

Story. Editorial Sudamericana,  2011. 77 pages

Ages: 8 and up

In the city’s darkest, most twisted street, there lived a very, very, very evil old woman. She was so evil that she kept her nephew Boris Orbis locked up in the house. The old woman would make him cook, sweep, clean all in exchange for a clove of garlic and a crust of bread!

Boris Orbis was 13 and had carrot-red hair. One of the things he most liked to do was to play the accordion. One day, music and the wish to meet Margarita Verano made him take a great decision: to flee from the Old Woman and the horrible Calle 24. Now that the decision was taken, the question remained how to go about it?

Published by: Spanish worldwide Editorial Sudamericana

mEy!

She was born in Buenos Aires in a house with a backyard. At eight she got her first desk where she began experimenting with chalk and at ten she took her first drawing class. She attended Rogelio Yrurtia Fine Arts School. She went to Universidad de Buenos Aires and studied Fashion Design until she got her first painting exhibition. She tried out painting, engraving, sculpture and mural. mEy! graduated an Art Teacher and taught that subject at several Elementary Schools and at people with disabilities workshops. She discovered the children´s illustration world and took classes with José Sanabria and Claudia Legnazzi. She also attended Digital Painting and Character Design workshops.

She worked for several publishing houses such as: Santillana, Sudamericana, Puerto de palos, Aique, Edelvives, Estación Mandioca, Ediciones SM, among others. She´s also a regular collaborator on Clarín Suplementos. She also worked as an illustrator and cartoon artists for Buenos Aires City government; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights; Ministry of Social Development and National Woman Council, among other State offices.

www.infinitamey.com.ar

Works

Historia del gato Güiña y la gata Morisca. Texto Marta Brunet. Veintisiete letritas, 2011

Valerio y la ciudad liviana. Written by Carolina Esses. Ediciones Uranito, 2011

Ana y la maldición de las pecas. Written by  Nicolás Schuff  and Damián Fraticelli . Ediciones Uranito, 2011

Boris Orbis y la vieja de la calle 24. Written by Patricia Suárez. Sudamericana, 2011

Sapo azul. Written by Fabián Sevilla. Ediciones Del  Naranjo, 2011

Quelonios (Anthology )  Selected stories by Horacio Quiroga, Elsa Bornemann, Luis María Pescetti, Patricia Suárez, Sandra Comino, Ana María Shua, among others. Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional, 2011

Príncipe Melifluo en sueño de manzana. Written by  Ángeles Durini. Edelvives, 2010

Frutas de Estación (Anthology ) Written by Silvia Schüjer and Albana Morosi. Estación Mandioca ediciones, 2010

Pajaritos en la cabeza. Written by Silvina Rocha. Editorial  la Brujita de papel, 2010

Príncipe y Mendigo. Editorial Letra Impresa, 2009

El viento en los sauces. Editorial Letra Impresa, 2009

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