I am a Brazilian-American children’s picture book author and enthusiast, a professional linguist, and a proud father and husband in a multicultural household. I was born in Brazil and left my home country at age 25. After living in Germany and in The Netherlands for a couple of years, I moved to Iowa (USA) to do my Ph.D. in Linguistics and decided to settle down here. I love the Midwest and all the quiet secrets it has to offer.
I wrote and self-published my very first children’s book in 2020 as a gift to my son, who was only 4 years old at the time. After writing and creating eight self-published children’s books, my breakthrough in the picture book world came in 2022, when my eighth book, My Dad, My Rock, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, was selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2022, and started being acquired by publishers in other countries and translated into several languages. In early 2023, Scribble (an imprint of the Australian publisher Scribe) decided to acquire world English rights to My Dad, My Rock and re-publish it in spring 2024 under the Scribble imprint.
My ninth book, What Makes Us Human, was selected for the prestigious White Ravens 2023 catalogue, for the 2025 Bologna Ragazzi Amazing Bookshelf (Sustainability), for the 2025 USBBY Outstanding International Books list, and for a special exhibition during the 2023 Bologna Children’s Book Fair called Beauty and the World: The New Non-fiction Picture Book. UNESCO decided to make the book an official children’s book for the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages and Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, one of my favorite publishers, bought English rights to the book in North America and the UK. Rights to the book have now been sold into over 30 languages, with many of the foreign editions being co-published with UNESCO. Foreign rights to my books, including Before I Forget, A Birthday Friend, People Are Weird ( illustrated by Catarina Sobral), and FINITO (my latest book, illustrated by Iwona Chmielewska) are represented by Syllabes Agency.
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