Daughter

Hija

Blanca Hernández Rojas & Francisca Silva de la Cerda

Claraboya | december 2025 | 48 pages | 21 x 28 cm | softcover

A poetic and emotionally nuanced portrait of the bond between a father and his daughter.

Through a series of intimate moments—small gestures, misunderstandings, silences, and attempts to connect—Daughter explores the delicate and evolving relationship between a father and his child. Everyday situations become spaces where affection, doubt, distance, and closeness quietly unfold.

Blending poetic prose with expressive illustrations, the book invites readers to reflect on how love is built through ordinary encounters, and how language—spoken, unspoken, or imagined—can reveal the tenderness and tensions that shape family ties.

Francisca Silva de la Cerda (Chile) is a visual artist specializing in painting and one of the creators of the Alapa project.

Rights available to all languages

For foreign rights, contact us

Awards

  • Youth Poetry Category Honorable Mention - Colibrí Medal, IBBY Chile
  • Award Marta Brunet 2026 / Children’s & YA Category
  • "The poetry collection HIJA, through the picturebook format, proposes an expanded notion of time, moving backwards and forwards, as a non-narrative yet deeply personal thread exploring the filial bond. With a voice entirely free of solemnity, the text reveals a relationship woven through two voices: an uncomfortable one, full of contrasts, engaged in a search that does not always lead to answers. Fragments of doubts, reproaches, tensions, happy memories and others less so. A story built through words and images, like a path strewn with stones to be navigated."

    THE JURY OF MARTA BRUNET 2026 AWARD