Julio Millares

Where are you, mom? Julio Millares

The little elephant Joan loses sight of his mother in a shopping mall and begins his search in the big city. First he meets the elephants of a circus who want to recruit him by force but he runs away. This is how the comic adventures take place and the characters who want to keep him but thanks to the intelligence and courage of the protagonist everything is happily solved and Joan finds her mother. The series "Free Animals" aims to show how the world of adults is seen from the eyes of a child. Julio Millares won the Vargas Llosa prize for novels and the Imaginaria magazine prize for children's stories. He lived in Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico and Sweden and then returned to his native Argentina. He is a professor in the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Cuyo.