Mirelle Ortega is a storyteller, illustrator, and the author of Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land, published by Cameron Kids. She was born and raised near the Papaloapan River in Veracruz, Mexico, and now lives in Los Angeles.

A young girl dreams of a time when the land and sky belonged to the mariposas amarillas, or yellow butterflies, and tries to re-create their glory with paper and glue.