For the Love of Picture Books
Mama Reads is a space dedicated to the art of learning and expanding our imagination, through soulful picturebooks.
Stories have the power to transport us on profound journeys and to paint the unimaginable. They also carry the potential to portray ways of life and worldviews, to open our hearts & minds to the diversity of human experience. Picturebooks are timeless and interactive, they create connection, between art and words, reader and child, child and their deepest imagination. My work is dedicated to finding inquisitive and artistic picturebooks - and to expand their reach, beyond their original country and language of publication, through storytelling, book reviews, translation, as well as international rights & representation. At Mama Reads Studio, I offer digital services - social media management and web design for small publishers and creators. Welcome!
Ways We Can Work Together: I connect with publishers, educators, and fellow creatives to broaden the reach of artistic & soulful picturebooks.
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Picturebook Consulting
Picturebook Reviews
Picturebook Recommendations
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Translation & Literary Services
International Book Rights & Representation
English - Portuguese Translation
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Storytelling & Workshops
Storytelling Circles
Creative Expression & Literacy Workshops
Interested in social media management & web design?
At Mama Reads Studio, I help independent publishers, creatives, and literary organizations translate their vision into a meaningful online presence, through storytelling-driven design, thoughtful social media campaigns and strategy.
A decade ago, I wrote about motherhood and children’s literature in a blog called One More Story Told. I transferred a couple of those blog posts onto this space and this is where you can find book reviews and occasional musings on life. If you have a picturebook suggestion to be featured, please send me a note here.
Hi, my name is Marina. I’m a literary consultant, book reviewer, and storyteller. As a lifelong lover of books with a background in children’s literature publishing and community-based research across Brazil, Canada, and Mexico, my goal is to strengthen the creative landscape between cultures through picturebooks. Are you interested in learning more about my story? Visit the About page.
Mama Reads is designed to connect authors, illustrators, publishers, and educators. I review and translate books, offer storytelling circles, as well as literary services as a foreign rights and representation liasion. I also offer affordable social media management & web design for publishers and creatives in the industry, visit Mama Reads Studio for further details.
Picturebooks are an invitation to travel, both through time and space; a life giving expression of what it means to be human; a learning experience; and a way for us to feel connected to one another and to the subtleties of our existence. I believe storytelling is both art and activism. And that a single picturebook can affect the way we sees ourselves in the world- and our sense of belonging in it.
For consulting, services, or collaborations, get in touch- I’d love to hear from you.
