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Niños is dedicated to the children who died during the military dictatorship in Chile. A series of thirty-four delicate poems, it is a book that confronts the reader with the force of reality. Despite this, the author, in loving words, creates an intimate space to celebrate the beauty of life in contrast to the horrors of death. Each lost child is a character in a poem, each is given an identity and a personal history and each poem becomes an extension of their childhood innocence that was interrupted. (Quelle: IBBY Honour List 2016).