Julio Millares

Furious Julio Millares

"Joy's Book" is a series of humorous and tender stories about the different fears and difficulties that children have in the early years of their lives, such as those they feel before a brother or sister arrives, those of going through the bathtub hole when water is removed, the death of a loved one, the death of the mocker or harassment of others, the death of first love, and so on. There are no limits to imagination and anything is possible by following the narrative logic of the initial problem. All stories are made from the children's perspective and the dramatic content of the situations they face is accurately reflected. In the story "Raging", the girl has a series of tantrums that she can't control and in front of which she feels more and more guilty, especially when in the last of them is her sister Leonie who is injured. Joy is going through the consequences of separating from her parents and has trouble controlling her emotions, but her father is helping her and teaching her a path. A book full of empathy with the young girl in the moment following the separation from her parents and which helps her to control her emotions successfully. Julio Millares won the Vargas Llosa Prize for novels and the Imaginaria Prize for children's stories. He lived in Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico and Sweden before returning to his native Argentina. He is a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Cuyo.