![]() ![]() Gusti lives with his family in Barcelona. ![]() ![]() He co-founded the nonprofit association Windown-La Ventana, which works towards building a more inclusive society. ![]() He first worked in Paris and currently lives in Barcelona where, as well as working as an illustrator, he also gives classes in illustration at schools, libraries, and cultural centers. This book, which was selected as the best book in the disability category by the Bologna Book Fair in 2016, comes as a call and a revelation.īorn in Argentina, Gusti studied advertising design at the Escola d'Art Fernando Fade and has lived in Europe since 1985. This is a book with a happy ending and a bucketful of wisdom.Ī diary, journal, and illustrated story all at the same time written by a father about his son, Mallko, who has Down Syndrome. This is tender and has real pain and then it takes us inside the experience of sharing moments with his son and looking through his son's eyes. In this graphic novel we are invited in to the mind and heart of a father who tells us the journey he took from not accepting his son, Mallko, to loving him unconditionally. When this father's son was born, it turned out he had Down syndrome. Mallko and Dad by Gusti I have needed to post about this book for Penelope Strudel: And the Birthday Treasure Trail by BrendanKearney I have to. ![]()
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