"Duerme negrito", a Latin American lullaby, has inspired this illustrator to capture colorful and touching images that offer a new interpretation and approach for the generations that, through the book, will come to know this sweet composition.

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While traveling in the Caribbean, the Argentine folklorist Atahualpa Yupanqui heard a simple lullaby and fell in love with it: "Sleep, sleep little black child, your mother is in the fields, little black child.... She's going to bring quails for you. She's going to bring delicious fruit for you".

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In 1969 he recorded it, making it a children's classic. "Sleep, sleep little black child, your mother is in the fields, little black child," sang Yupanqui and others like Mercedes Sosa, who also covered the melody.

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Illustrator Paloma Valdivia brings it back in a wonderfully illustrated book so that the little ones can learn from the classic lullabies.

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