Mariana Ruiz Johnson graduated in Visual Arts at the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte in Buenos Aires. She then attended Sótano Blanco Art School and
workshops on illustration with Saúl Óscar Rojas, Claudia Legnazzi, Svetlan Junakovic, Gianni De Conno. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the Award A la Orilla del Viento, assigned by Fondo de Cultura Económica, and in 2015 she won the Silent Book Contest, promoted by Ibby and Carthusia.
She has published several books with South American, Asian and European publishers.
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Shhh
Is it a wordless book? Almost, but not completely: the only words in this picture book are, in fact, onomatopoeias! Page after page, we follow a child during his/her daily routine: waking up in the morning, having breakfast, going to school, and then playing during school break, taking a nap after lunch, going to the swimming pool and back home……
