The Cuatrogatos Foundation Award was established in Miami, Florida, in 2014 to help promote and encourage the reading of high-quality books created by Ibero-American writers and illustrators.
Matías Acosta holds an Associate's Degree in Digital Animation—an intermediate degree within theBachelor's program in Animation and Video Games—and he illustrated the children's book *In a Spider's Web*, one of the 20 winning entries.
For the 2021 edition of the award, 1,194 books published by 182 publishers from 16 countries were considered.
In addition, three picture books also illustrated by Matías Acosta (Arre arre caballito, Los entusiasmos, and Poemas para leer en un año) are included in the list of 100 books recommended by the Cuatrogatos Foundation Award for 2021.