⋅ Born in Santiago de Chile (1947)

⋅ State Teacher of Spanish (1969)

⋅ Professor of Special Education (1975)

⋅ Bachelor´s Degree in Education (1984)

⋅ Bachelor´s Degree in Literature with a major in Romance Philology (1987)

⋅ Master´s Degree in Literature with a major in Hispanic Literature (1987)

⋅ Postgraduate studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) (1970-1971)

⋅ Postgraduate degree: Expert in Children´s Literature. Cátedra Juana de Ibarbourou, Montevideo, Uruguay (1996)

⋅ For over forty five years, Professor of the Faculty of Education of the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile in the  Department of Language Arts (Spanish), Children’s Literature and Creative Language.

⋅ Researching Professor of the same university, in the fields of Integrated Expression, Reading and Television, and Translation in Children´s Literature and Multicultural Books.

⋅ She also taught at the Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago de Chile.

⋅ Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA).

⋅ Author of numerous articles in specialized magazines on Children´s Literature and Language Arts

⋅ Author of complementary texts for teaching Language Arts in Elementary School.

⋅ Author of secondary literature for Elementary School teachers.

⋅ Local editor of Bookbird  

⋅ Writer of more than sixty books with short stories for children.

⋅ Author of poetry for adults

⋅ Visiting Professor at the Internationales Jugendbiblothek, München, Germany.

⋅ Visiting Professor at the Fundación Sánchez Ruipérez, Salamanca, Spain.

⋅ Member of the Chilean Section of IBBY

⋅ Retired at present. Carries out literature workshops, and provides consultancy and specialization courses.

Amadeo el perro de los Martínez está preocupado. Ha escuchado que algo terrible e injusto va a suceder con el abuelo, y eso él no puede permitirlo.
Cuando los acontecimientos se precipitan y la situación parece no tener salida, decide actuar con toda su energía.
Otra encantadora aventura del fiel Amadeo y sus confusiones.