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John Parra is an American illustrator. Parra's books have received awards including the Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book Award, Golden Kite Award, Christopher Award, and an International Latino Book Award. He has additionally worked as an illustrator for corporate marketing campaigns and as an art instructor.

John Parra was born in 1972 in Santa Barbara, California. He later graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Parra received an International Latino Book Award for Best Children's Book Interior Illustrations in 2006 for his first illustrated book My Name is / Me llamo Gabriela. In 2009 his work Gracias / Thanks received a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book Award as well as a SCBWI Golden Kite Award. In 2012 his book Waiting for the Biblioburro received a Christopher Award.

In 2015 Parra's book Green Is a Chile Pepper received another Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book Award. In 2015 his work was also shown in a one-day presentation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Parra's works have been shown in both solo and group art exhibitions. The next year he illustrated the children's book Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans, based upon the fall-out of Hurricane Katrina and the real-life story of New Orleans sanitation worker Cornelius Washington, who died in 2008. The book received a Golden Kite Award.

In 2017, his illustrated children's book Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos was named to the New York Times/NY Public Library's: Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2017. The book centers on the early years of artist Frida Kahlo and the animals that surrounded her childhood. The book was also received the Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017 award, was named to the Smithsonian Top Ten Best Children's Books of 2017 list, and received his third Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book Award. At the 2019 Golden Kite Awards & Gala, Parra presented one of his illustrations from the book We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which he had based upon a quote from her career.

In 2022, Parra released his picture book biography, Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son (available in English and Spanish editions) detailing how he spent his young years working with his father's landscaping company which lead to his love of drawing and illustration.

Parra has also provided illustrator's workshops to young artists and high-school students and has served as an instructor at the Carnegie Art Museum.

In 2017 Parra illustrated for the Delicioso Forever Stamps distributed by the US postal service. Over two years Parra developed six stamps derived from popular dishes originating from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Using bright colors, the six foods selected were tamales, flan, empanadas, chile rellenos, ceviche, and sancocho. As an illustrator, he has also worked on advertising campaigns for companies including Jeep, United Airlines, PBS, and National Geographic, in addition to film, book, and computer companies.

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Raúl the Third (born 1976) is a Mexican American artist and illustrator.

Raúl González was born in El Paso. His father was from that town while his mother was from the neighboring Mexican city of Juárez. Raúl spent his childhood in both cities. In addition to his extensive work as a painter (which has been exhibited in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles), Raúl is a comic book and graphic novel illustrator. He works on the SpongeBob SquarePants comic, among other titles.

In 2019, Kwame Alexander's new imprint Versify (part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) will launch a series of bilingual children's books written and illustrated by Raúl.

Raúl resides with his wife and son in Medford, Massachusetts.

Raúl is represented by Jennifer Laughran of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Book of the Year in 2022 for Stuntboy, in the Meantime, authored by Jason Reynolds.

Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Book of the Year in 2022 for Tag Team (El Toro & Friends series).

Pura Belpré Illustrator Winner in 2021 for ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat.

Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Book of the Year in 2021 for ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat.

Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor in 2020 for ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market.

Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Book of the Year in 2021 for ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market.

Pura Belpré Illustrator Winner in 2017 for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth.

Texas BlueBonnet award nomination in 2016-2017 for Lowriders in Space.

The Brother Thomas Fellowship in 2015.

Voted Boston's best visual artist for 2010 by readers of The Boston Phoenix.

Artadia Foundation for Art and Culture award in 2009.

AS ILLUSTRATOR

Stuntboy, in the Meantime. Written by Jason Reynolds. New York, NY: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2021. (Forthcoming.)

Clockwork Curandera, Vol. 1: The Witch Owl Parliament. Written by David Bowles. New York, NY: Tu Books, 2021. (Forthcoming.)

Lowriders: Blast from the Past. Written by Cathy Camper. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.

Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. Written by Cathy Camper. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2016.

Lowriders in Space. Written by Cathy Camper. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2014.

AS AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

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Duncan Tonatiuh (born 1984) is a Mexican-American author and illustrator of several award-winning children's books. The illustrations in his books are influenced by Pre-Columbian art. The themes in his stories relate to the Latino experience, with subjects that include social justice issues, art, history, and immigration. He is an advocate and activist for workers' rights.

Tonatiuh was born in 1984 in Mexico City to an American father and a Mexican mother and was raised in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He moved to the United States as a teenager and completed high school at Buxton School in Massachusetts. As a child, he was inspired by comics and anime to write and illustrate his own superhero stories. In high school, he became interested in painting, finding inspiration in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Egon Schiele.

In 2008, Tonatiuh received his B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in Manhattan and a B.A. from Eugene Lang College. While in college, he became interested in Mixtec artwork, specifically Mixtec codex. His senior thesis, Journey of a Mixteco, won best thesis and was published online. Immediately after graduating, he was contracted by Abrams Books for Young Children, publishing his first book Dear Primo in 2010. He divides his time between Mexico and the U.S., visiting schools, libraries, and bookstores. He is a workers' rights activist.

Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin (2010) is about two cousins who live in the United States and Mexico and how their lives are similar yet different. The book shows how life is different for these two cousins, Charlie and Carlitos. It also talks about how their lives might be different but how they are both very similar people.

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours (May 2011) concerns the life of Diego Rivera. It is summarized for young people to read. It talks about his journey to being one of the most famous painters in the world. Tonatiuh also wants young readers to think about what Diego Rivera would be like today if he were alive.

Pancho Rabbit and Coyote (May 7, 2013) is about a young rabbit (Pancho) who is waiting for his Papa's return from working in the carrot and lettuce fields up north to earn money for his family. Pancho becomes impatient and sets out on a journey to find his father. He packs his Papa's favorite meal, mole, rice, beans, tortillas, and aguamiel. He eventually finds a coyote who is willing to travel with him in exchange for food. When the food is all gone, the coyote is still hungry and eats Pancho. This book helps shine a light on the struggles that many families go through to have a better life.

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight (May 6, 2014): About ten years before Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez was denied the right to go to a "Whites only" school in California. She and her parents brought together the Hispanic community and filed a lawsuit that was in the federal district court. They eventually ended school segregation in California.

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras (2015) is about how the calaveras (skeletons), who performed everyday and festive activities, came to be. José Guadalupe Posada drew political cartoons because there was no freedom of speech. His calavera drawings are best known for Día de los Muertos ( Day of the Dead).

In Salsa (2015), Jorge Argueta, Elisa Amando, and Duncan Tonatiuh bring together an easy and delicious recipe for salsa. The salsa includes tomatoes as bongos and kettledrums, onion, marca, garlic, cilantro and the trumpets, and the conductor.

The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes (2016): Princess Izta had many people who wanted to marry her. When Popoca, a warrior, came along and promised to love her and be true to her, she fell in love. In order for Princess Izta and Popoca to get married, the emperor told him that he needed to defeat their enemy, Jaguar Claw. His challenger sent a message to Princess Izta saying he was dead when he was still alive and about to defeat Jaguar Claw. Princess Izta then went into a very deep sleep and couldn't be woken by anyone. It is a story of how two volcanoes were formed, Iztaccíhuatl (who sleeps) and Popocatépetl (who tries to wake her by ash and smoke).

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale

Separate is Never equal: Sylvia Méndez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras

Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem

Esquivel: Space-Age Sound Artist

The Princess and the Warrior

Danza!: Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México

Undocumented: A Worker's Fight

Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War

Illustrator and author

Dear Primo: A Letter To My Cousin, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2010.

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2011.

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2013.

Separate is never equal: Sylvia Méndez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2014.

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2015.

The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2016.

Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2019.

Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México, Abrams Books for Young Readers (New York, N.Y.) 2017.

Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist written by Susan Wood, Charlesbridge (Watertown, MA) 2016.

Illustrator

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Yuyi Morales (born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico on November 7, 1968)[1] is a Mexican-American children's book author and illustrator. She is known for her books Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Little Night, and Viva Frida, which received the 2015 Pura Belpre Medal for illustration as well as a 2015 Caldecott Honor. Morales is the first Latina to be a Caldecott recipient.[2]

Yuyi Morales was born in the city of Xalapa in the Mexican State of Veracruz in 1968. She is the oldest of four children. As a child she loved drawing, and often paired her pictures with stories. Her mother was a homemaker, and Morales has stated, "She made all our clothes, coats, hats, underwear. She made the bedspreads, the curtains, the lamps, everything". Despite those nights by the sewing machine, becoming an artist was not a childhood dream for Morales, commenting "That would have been thought of as crazy." Because she had been a top competitive swimmer in high school, she studied physical education at the Universidad de Xalapa, hoping to teach gym. After graduation, she took a job as a swim coach.[3]

While working as a swimming coach in Mexico, Morales met her husband, Tim, an American citizen, and had a son, Kelly. The new family moved to the United States in 1994.[4] During her first years living in San Francisco, Morales remembers that she had no job, no friends and she barely spoke a few words in English. She was sad because she missed her native country and her family, Morales expresses that she felt like she did not fit in that country. One day her mother-in-law took her son Kelly to a public library in the city of San Francisco, she remembers she was so amazed and inspired by the section of children's books. Morales learned English by reading to her son Kelly who did not know or care if she mispronounced some words, and she could always use the illustrations to show something she did not know. Morales felt so inspired by those vivid colors and illustrations from the books that she had been reading to her son, she wondered whether she could make picture books like those.[5]

Morales bought a set of paints and brushes and enrolled in an extension class at UC Berkeley on writing for children where she met a group of other aspiring authors and illustrators. Morales's first English-language picture book project was Kathleen Krull's text for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez in 2003. Reviewing Morales's work, School Library Journal contributor Sue Morgan praised her "beautifully rendered earth-tone illustrations," while Traci Todd, writing in Booklist, cited the book's "gorgeous paintings, with their rounded, organic forms and lush, gemstone hues." Morales's first self-illustrated title, Just a Minute, was published in 2003 as well. Morales kept illustrating original works like Niño Wrestles the World and Little Night Nochecita. She has also illustrated books for different authors like Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased, Ladder to the Moon, Los Gatos Black en Halloween, My Abuelita, Sand Sister and Floating on Mama's song.[6] She has influenced Cassandra Clare. Morales has since been recognized as one of the most celebrated Latina children's book authors using her family's legacy and heritage as inspiration.

Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, sponsored by the national Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) (2003) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book.

Northern California Book Award Nomination, Children's Literature (2003) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book.

California Book Award Silver Medal for Juvenile Fiction (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book[8]

Golden Kite Honor Book (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Latino Book Award (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Latino Literary Award for Best Children's Book (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Notable Books for Children, Younger Readers (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Notable Books for a Global Society (2004) for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Americas Award Honorable Mention (2003) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

School Library Journal Best Books (2003) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

San Francisco Chronicle Best of Year (2003) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Lasting Connections, Best of the Year (2003) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Book Links Magazine, Best of the Year (2003) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Christopher Award (2004) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Jane Addams Book Award (2004) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

The National Council for Social Studies (2004) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Blue Bonnet Award Nomination (2004) for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez[citation needed ]

ALA Notable Children's Book Selection (2007) for Little Night

Caldecott Honor for Illustrator (2015) for Viva Frida

Pura Belpre Medal for Illustrator (2019) for Dreamers / Soñadores[7]

As writer and illustrator

Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA) 2003.

Little Night, Roaring Brook Press (New Milford, CT) 2006.

Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book, Roaring Brook Press (New York, NY) 2008.

Niño Wrestles the World, Roaring Brook Press (New York, NY) 2013.

Viva Frida, Roaring Brook Press (New York, NY) 2014.

Rudas: Niño's Horrendous Hermanitas, Roaring Brook Press (New York, NY) 2016.

Dreamers/Soñadores, Holiday House Publishing (New York, NY) 2018.

Bright Star/Lucero, Holiday House Publishing (New York, NY) 2021.

As illustrator

F. Isabel Campoy, Todas las buenas manos, Harcourt (San Diego, CA) 2002.

Kathleen Krull, Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, Harcourt (San Diego, CA) 2003.

Amanda White, Sand Sister, Barefoot Books (Cambridge, MA) 2004.

Marisa Montes, Los Gatos Black on Halloween, Holt (New York, NY) 2006.

Tony Johnston, My Abuelita, Harcourt (Boston, MA) 2009.

Laura Lacámara, Floating on Mama's Song/Flotando en la canción de mamá, Katherine Tegen Books (New York, NY) 2010.

Maya Soetero-Ng, Ladder to the Moon, Candlewick Press (Somerville, MA) 2011.

Amy Novesky, Georgia in Hawai'i: When Georgia O'keeffe Painted What She Pleased, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston, MA) 2012.

Sherman Alexie, Thunder Boy Jr., Little Brown Books for Young Readers (New York, NY) 2016.

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Donna Barba Higuera is an American children's book author. Her debut novel, Lupe Wong Won't Dance, was a Pura Belpré Award honor book and PNBA winner in 2021. Her middle grade dystopian novel, The Last Cuentista, won the 2022 Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpré Medal.

Higuera grew up in central California in a mixed race family and now lives in Washington with her family, two dogs, and two frogs. Outside of writing, Higuera works in healthcare.

Lupe Wong Won't Dance (2020)

Lupe Wong Won't Dance is a middle-grade sports novel published September 8, 2020 by Levine Querido. Mason London illustrated the cover, and Libia Brenda translated the Spanish-language edition.

The Last Cuentista (2021)

The Last Cuentista was published by Levine Querido and edited by Nick Thomas. In Higuera's novel, 12-year-old Petra Peña and her family are among those chosen to escape Earth before Halley's comet collides with the planet;she will have to leave many things behind like her home, her friends, and of course her Abuelita or Grandmother. However, after waking up from a 357-year sleep, everyone's memories had been erased except Petra's. Previous Newbery winner Tae Keller said The Last Cuentista

"certainly veers into the dark end of middle-grade fiction, with brainwashing, 'purging', and, yes, the destruction of our entire planet ... but it doesn't dwell in the darkness, preferring to give its readers healthy doses of hope, wonder and page-turning action."

The inspiration for The Last Cuentista came from a writing exercise involving the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea.

The Spanish-language translation of Lupe Wong Won't Dance ( Lupe Wong No Baila) and The Last Cuentista are Junior Library Guild books.

included Lupe Wong Won't Dance on their 2021 lists of the top ten "Best Middle-Grade Debuts" and "Best Sports Books for Youth."

Lupe Wong Won't Dance (Levine Querido, 2020)

El Cucuy Is Scared, Too!, illustrated by Juliana Perdomo (Abrams, 2021)
¡El Cucuy también tiene miedo! (expected 2023)

The Last Cuentista (Levine Querido, 2021)
La última cuentista, translated by Aurora Humarán (Levine Querido, 2022)

The Yellow Handkerchief, illustrated by Cynthia Alonso (Abrams, 2023)

Alebrijes (Levine Querido)

It's Navidad, El Cucuy!, illustrated by Juliana Perdomo (2023)

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Juana Martinez-Neal is a Peruvian American children's book author and illustrator. Her debut book as an author and illustrator, Alma and How She Got Her Name, was well reviewed and won a 2019 Caldecott Award Honor.

Juana Martinez-Neal grew up in Lima, Peru. Growing up she hoped to be a painter, like her father and grandfather, as the profession of illustrator was not common in Peru. She moved to the United States in her mid-20s. After having children of her own she decided to become an author and illustrator of children's books. She now lives in Connecticut, with her husband and three children.

As Writer and Illustrator

As Illustrator

I Don't Care, written by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Molly Idle and Juana Martinez-Neal, Neal Porter Books-Holiday House, 2022 (Forthcoming) ISBN 978-0-8234-4345-1

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Juana Martinez-Neal is a Peruvian American children's book author and illustrator. Her debut book as an author and illustrator, Alma and How She Got Her Name , was well reviewed and won a 2019 Caldecott Award Honor. Juana Martinez-Neal grew up in Lima, Peru.

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Margarita Engle (born in Los Angeles, California on September 2, 1951) is a Cuban American poet and author of many award-winning books for children, young adults and adults. Most of Engle's stories are written in verse and are a reflection of her Cuban heritage and her deep appreciation and knowledge of nature. She became the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009 for The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom. She was selected by the Poetry Foundation to serve from 2017 to 2019 as the sixth Young People's Poet Laureate. On October 9, 2018, Margarita Engle was announced the winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. She was nominated by 2019 NSK Prize jury member Lilliam Rivera.

Engle's father was born in Los Angeles, California and her mother in Trinidad, Cuba. Although Engle was born and raised in California, growing up, she spent many summers with her extended family in Cuba. As a child, she was introduced to poetry in Spanish, particularly the works of José Martí.

Engle earned a B.S. from California State Polytechnic University in 1974, an M.S. from Iowa State University in 1977, and nearly completed a doctoral degree in biology from the University of California, Riverside in 1983. Before starting her writing career, Engle was a tenured professor of agronomy at California Polytechnic University. While working on her doctoral degree, she took a seminar in creative writing with Tomás Rivera, and credits this experience with igniting her passion to write. She lives in Central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.

Entire body of work ( 2019)

THE POET SLAVE OF CUBA, A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano ( Henry Holt & Co., 2006)

International Reading Association Teachers' Choice

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts

Bank Street

THE SURRENDER TREE, Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom ( Henry Holt & Co., 2008)

Jane Addams Children's Book Award for book for older children

Claudia Lewis Poetry Award

Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

ALA Notable Book

NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Book

Amelia Bloomer Book

Booklist Editors Choice

Kansas State Reading Circle

Michigan Great Lakes Great Books Award Master List

Junior Library Guild Selection

TROPICAL SECRETS, Holocaust Refugees in Cuba ( Henry Holt & Co., 2009)

Paterson Prize

New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing

ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee

California Teachers Association Recommended Book

THE FIREFLY LETTERS, A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba ( Henry Holt & Co., 2010)

Jane Addams Award Finalist

California Book Award Finalist

International Reading Association Notable Book for a Global Society

NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Book

Amelia Bloomer Book

TAYSHAS Choice

Junior Library Guild Selection

SUMMER BIRDS, The Butterflies of Maria Merian ( Henry Holt & Co., 2010, picture book)

Kirkus Best Books for Children

NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Book

Amelia Bloomer Book

HURRICANE DANCERS, The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck ( Henry Holt & Co., 2011)

ALSC 2012 Notable Children's Book for older readers

ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee

Poetry for Children Blog's Top 20 Most Distinctive Books of Poetry 2011

2012 White Ravens List

DRUM DREAM GIRL, ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt., 2015)

ENCHANTED AIR: TWO CULTURES, TWO WINGS: A MEMOIR ( Simon and Schuster., 2015)

FOREST WORLD ( Simon and Schuster., 2017)

CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book

2018 Green Earth Book Award

Kansas NEA Reading Circle List Intermediate Title

Official website

"Q & A with Margarita Engle", Publishers Weekly, Aida Bardales, 4/16/2009

"Margarita Engle's Historic Newbery Honor", School Library Journal, Debra Lau Whelan, 3/4/2009

"Guanabee Interviews Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-Winning Author Of The Surrender Tree", Guanabee, Alejandra Alvarez, 2/23/2009

"Yuyi Morales, Margarita Engle win Pura Belpré Awards", American Library Association, 1/26/2009

Margarita Engle at Library of Congress, with 17 library catalog records

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Margarita Engle (born in Los Angeles, California on September 2, 1951) is a Cuban American poet and author of many award-winning books for children, young adults and adults. Most of Engle's stories are written in verse and are a reflection of her Cuban heritage and her deep appreciation and knowledge of nature.

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Rafael López (born August 8, 1961, in Mexico City, Mexico) is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. To reflect the lives of all young people, his illustrations bring diverse characters to children's books. As a children's book illustrator, he has received three Pura Belpré Award medals from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA in 2020 for Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln, Drum Dream Girl in 2016 and Book Fiesta! in 2010. He created the National Book Festival Poster for the Library of Congress and was a featured book festival speaker at this event.

His book illustrations are the recipient of the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award, Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators New York, Original Art Exhibition, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the Tomás Rivera Book Award along with three Pura Belpré honors and two Américas Book Awards.

López has illustrated thirteen stamps for the United States Postal Service and served as the first Guest Artist of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum The artist was selected by the Obama/Biden campaign to create two official posters at Artists for Obama in an effort to secure the pivotal Latino vote in key swing states.

In Mexico City, López attended the Manuel Bartolome Cossio, an experimental Freinet school where he began drawing and painting at an early age. He attended after school workshops there in photography, painting, puppet making, carpentry, ceramics, tablas huicholas and theatre. In school he was able to study classical music and also learned to play a variety of folkloric instruments including the quena, guitar and drums taught by members of Los Folkloristas. Music is a prominent theme found in his illustrations, books and postal stamps. Both his parents were architects and professors at UNAM. As a child, he often visited the flea market with his father looking for used books and the family had a large collection that lined the walls of their home from floor to ceiling. López regularly traveled by metro over an hour to visit the library, immersed himself in books, especially art books and grew up with a fascination for images from a variety of cultures. The illustrator describes Mexico as a place where there are hundreds of myths and legends as well as 67 native languages. This early exposure to diversity and storytelling shaped his thinking. When he was 10 years old, his parents sent him to Exeter, England to live with Mexican-born conceptual and performance artist Felipe Ehrenberg. There he explored drawing and learned to make books and use a printing press. His first book was an illustrated journal where he recorded his experiences to share with his family. In 1982, he left Mexico to study illustration at the ArtCenter College of Design, in Los Angeles where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration.

After college he worked as an illustrator in Los Angeles, and then converted an old car garage in an industrial loft building in the East Village of downtown San Diego into his home and studio. He became involved in social design projects, founding the Urban Art Trail and painting large-scale murals to improve blighted areas and reclaim neighborhoods. A lifelong passion for books eventually led him to pursue children's book illustration with a focus on diversity and inclusion. He has taught illustration for ArtCenter College of Design and San Diego City College.

Book Fiesta! illustrated by Rafael López, recipient of the 2010 Pura Belpré illustration medal.

Nuestra Voz poster, 2008.

Growing up in Mexico City, Rafael López was immersed in the rich cultural heritage and native color of street life. Influenced by Mexican surrealism and myths he developed a style with roots in this tradition. Using bold colors, his textured work is a fusion of graphic style and magical symbolism. López likes to find objects and symbols to communicate concepts. The illustrator is inspired by imagery from different cultures where he gathers ideas to inform the visual language of his works. He paints with acrylic paints that come in large recycled salsa jars from Mexico and uses a variety of objects to scratch textures onto hand-cut and sanded wooden boards. Color and texture is important to Lopez's paintings and he uses a camera to catalogue the colors, textural history of walls and peeling paint to fuel his work. López believes color is an expression of his identity, heritage and a direct route to the emotions of his audience. He cites Mexico as a land of contrasts, surrealism, intense color, texture and imagery . Strongly influenced by indigenous cultures and naïve art, his illustrations for children's books have been cited for their folk art quality. He has created artwork for international clients like Amnesty International, Apple, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Charlesbridge Publishing, Chicago Tribune, Grammy Awards, Harper Collins, Henry Holt & Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, IBM, Intel, Lee & Low books, Library of Congress, Little, Brown and Company, Los Angeles Times, Penguin Books, Scholastic, The New York Times, United States Forest Service, United States Postal Service, the Washington Post and the World Wildlife Fund and his work has been selected into multiple juried shows. Illustrations have been featured in publications like Communication Arts, the American Illustration Annual, and Graphic Design USA.

Lopez talking with a fan at BookExpo America in 2018

López created illustrations for The Little Book of Joy in 2022, written His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The illustrator shows two leaders of global peace who had very different childhoods, faced oppression and struggle yet learned to look for joy. Lopez's collaboration with Jacqueline Woodson on The Day You Begin, resulted in a #1 New York Times Children's Picture Book bestseller and received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award that recognizes books that engage children in thinking about peace, social justice, global community, and equity. In 2020, Netflix featured The Day You Begin, read aloud in an episode of their series Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices. The story about finding courage to connect, even when you are afraid was commissioned as a musical and world premiered at the Kennedy Center. In 2022, López collaborated again with Jacqueline Woodson to create The Year We Learned to Fly. This story of a brother and sister facing challenges with confidence became a New York Times Bestseller in children's picture books.

Lopez's illustrations for Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You written by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor focuses on differently abled kids who use their strengths to work together on a garden. The book became a #1 New York Times Bestselling Children's Picture Book, winning the American Library Association 2020 Schneider Family Book Award. Justice Sotomayor had a childhood diagnosis of diabetes and in their NPR interview, López talked about being inspired by his own son who has autism.

López received the 2020 Pura Belpré Medal for illustration from the American Library Association for Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln. The book tells the story of a Venezuelan child pianist who writes and performs music during the American Civil War. His illustrations for Drum Dream Girl were the recipient of the 2016 Pura Belpré medal for illustration given by the American Library Association to honor work that best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in children's books. Rafael López's illustrations were animated by Dreamscape Media to create Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music, the recipient of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video. Written by Margarita Engle the book tells the story of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a mixed race Cuban girl in the 1930s music scene, who defied gender roles. His illustrations encourage readers to explore the story from different perspectives by changing the page orientation from horizontal to vertical. The use of perspective in Drum Dream Girl has a surreal quality and the illustrator has related his perception that children are more visually sophisticated than adults think, so he often uses abstract shapes, instead of realistic representations of objects. Drum Dream Girl was selected as part of a special initiative by We Need Diverse Books as part of Indies First celebrations on small business Saturday.

The book Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics. was awarded the 2017 Silver Medal by the Society of Illustrators New York, Original Art Exhibition. The bright, large scale portraits of notable Hispanics were described as having the graphic discipline of poster art.

In 2019, López collaborated on a tribute book, celebrating 50 years of Sesame Street in "Sunny Day: A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song. Together with Eric Carle, renowned author and illustrator of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", he collaborated on the 2017 book "What's your Favorite Color?".

His illustrations for Book Fiesta! written by Pat Mora were the recipient of the 2010 Pura Belpré Illustration Award. The book is a celebration of El Día de los niños/ El Día de los libros, Day of the Child/Day of the Book. The book "Maybe Something Beautiful, How Art Transformed a Neighborhood" written by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell received the 2017 Tomás Rivera Book Award for Young Readers, and is based on López's work as a community muralist. Additional books, Tito Puente, Mambo King by Monica Brown, The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha Vamos, My Name is Celia, Me Llamo Celia written by Monica Brown and Yum! Mmm! Que Rico! by Pat Mora have won 2 Américas Book Awards and 3 Pura Belpré Honors for illustration.

When developing books he immerses himself in research believing it is the genesis of innovative ideas and conceptual direction. The artist is drawn to picture books because he believes words and images have the power to make convincing change. When children see themselves in the pages of books it encourages them to reach their full potential. He cites the need to go beyond stereotypes and misrepresentations and deal with the complex issues of life in an increasingly interconnected world.

In 2012 he was selected by the Library of Congress to create the National Book Festival poster to celebrate reading and literacy. Honorary Co-Chairs for this event were President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama and it featured more than 125 best-selling authors, illustrators and poets on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. López served as the honorary chair of California's Read Across America and speaks around the United States and abroad to promote reading and literacy. Children's books illustrated by Rafael López have been printed in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish.

López spends time out of the studio traveling, painting murals and reading with diverse kids. Using pictures and storytelling in both books and murals he strives to communicate hope and the knowledge that kids and families have the power to make change in their own communities. In economically challenging times, the illustrator is a big supporter of public libraries and librarians. He advocates for the vital role they play connecting children to books and awakening their curiosity for a wide variety of subjects. The artist speaks at libraries and schools around the nation, working to create appreciation and awareness of libraries as cultural institutions relevant to a diverse community.

As part of a grassroots effort he created a poster called Nuestra Voz that was printed with friends and distributed to key swing states in an effort to win the pivotal Latino vote for democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. The poster was brought to the attention of the national campaign by field workers and his 2008 poster Voz Unida was selected by the Obama/Biden campaign as an official poster at Artists for Obama. This poster became part of a series of ten limited edition art prints created and donated by artists to support the presidential campaign of United States President Barack Obama and were sold to raise campaign funds through his official website. The success of the initial poster fueled the decision to choose López to create a new image for the re-election campaign. In 2012 a new poster "Estamos Unidos" was released and he was the only original Artist for Obama to make an official poster for the re-election effort.

He was asked to create the National Book Festival poster for the Library of Congress in 2012. Birds are a frequent subject of his work and in 2012 he worked with Environment for the Americas as the International Migratory Bird Day artist. In that role, he created a poster encouraging diverse children to become involved in birdwatching and appreciation of birds. López also created a series of four posters in 2014 as the Americas Latino Eco Festival artist. To encourage summer reading for children, he developed a poster and other graphics for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, One World, Many Stories.

During the 2013 32nd Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates he was asked to teach a poster design workshop to aspiring and established illustrators. He also visited Sharjah in 2011 to teach an art workshop to children.

In 2022 López was selected as the first Guest Artist of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. He taught a series of summer workshops to young people and adults about his stamp design process and shared the importance of representation and inclusivity in artworks at the National Postal Museum in Washington D.C.

He has created thirteen stamps for the United States Postal Service including a series of 5 stamps about Mariachi music in 2022. The vibrant stamps featured mariachi musicians dressed in the traje de charro, playing the guitar, guitarrón, vihuela, violin and trumpet. On NPR he described the power and universal quality of mariachi music to transcend language and culture bringing people together around the world. Also in 2022 he illustrated a whimsical stamp featuring a mother elephant playing with its young calf. He is the artist of a series of 5 stamps in 2010 for the United States Postal Service featuring Latin Music Legends Celia Cruz, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente and Selena. His 2007 U.S.P.S. stamp celebrated an important legal case in equality of education called Mendez vs. Westminster. Lopez's Let's Dance Merengue postal stamp was featured on the cover of the commemorative stamp yearbook in 2006 and at a special exhibition at the Smithsonian called Trendsetters and Trailblazers.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, Rafael López chandelier.

In 2022, Rafael López created 57 portraits documenting Latino heritage and culture in the U.S.,for ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino in Washington D.C. Lopez's work was part of the 2020 exhibit, Now & Then: Contemporary Illustrators and their Childhood Art and the 2017 exhibition, Eric Carle and Friends: What's your Favorite Color? at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 2016, original paintings were exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum at an exhibition called New York City: A Portrait through stamp art. Several of Lopez's works were exhibited in 2016 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico and in 2015 at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. Selected paintings on wood and original drawings were shown at a multimedia exhibition called Writing With Pictures at the California Center for the Arts. Original art by López can also be found in the Mazza Museum, International Art for children's books collection. Archival materials about the life and work of Rafael López are part of the University of California, Santa Barbara CEMA Library Collection. Works by Rafael López were exhibited at Manifest Hope in Washington D.C., Manifest Equality in Los Angeles and Re:Form Education in New York. In 2009, he was asked to create three paintings for Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa and then presented them to her at the National Association for Independent Schools conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Rafael Lopez speaks at the Mingei Museum.

Rafael Lopez works exhibited at the California Center for the Arts.

López envisioned and led the Urban Art Trail Project in 1997, that transformed San Diego's East Village with colorful murals, sculptures and art installations and serves as a model of urban renewal that has been implemented in cities around the nation, Australia and Canada. This effort is the subject of the children's book Maybe Something Beautiful from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, illustrated by Rafael López. The book is the recipient of the 2017 Tomás Rivera Book Award for Young Readers. It was also honored by the International Latino Book Awards as best Latino-focused children's picture book. This story celebrates the power of community and reminds readers that a small group of committed individuals can impact meaningful change.

The artist is energized by the idea of bringing art out of galleries and into the streets so it is accessible to everyone. Through this work, López has discovered that community murals can be a powerful tool to bring diverse people together. To build community and encourage participation by young people and untrained artists López developed a mural style that works like a large-scale paint by numbers. These collective murals help neighbors work collaboratively to take ownership of their communities. Working with urban libraries, López uses art to bring communities together and cites diversity as a bridge that can build trust, enlightenment and innovation.

After an act of violence on a Chicago playground, he worked with community organizers to make a vibrant mural painted by the community to empower families to reclaim their neighborhood using art. He has designed and developed murals in collaboration with the National Museum of Mexican Fine Art in Chicago, American Federation of Teachers and other organizations. López's murals can be found throughout downtown San Diego and on Harbor Island, at the San Diego office of the American Federation of Teachers, numerous children's hospitals, under bridges and at public elementary schools including a series at the San Diego Cooperative Charter School. He has worked with hundreds of children, families and community members to create murals in Fresno, San Diego, Los Angeles and Pittsburg California, Fort Collins and Boulder, Colorado, Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington.

Rafael López lives in San Diego, California, and the UNESCO World Heritage city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with his wife Candice, a Professor of Art and Design and a son Santiago.

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Rafael López (born August 8, 1961, in Mexico City, Mexico) is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. To reflect the lives of all young people, his illustrations bring diverse characters to children's books.

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Mirelle Ortega is an award-winning Mexican artist and writer for kidlit and animation based in Los Angeles, California. She is the author-illustrator of RIVER OF MARIPOSAS and MAGIC: ONCE UPON A FARAWAY LAND, for which she received a 2023 Pura Belpré Award Honor for illustration and an International…

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Islandborn, Díaz, Junot, 1968- | Gloria Coles Flint Public Library

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Leo Espinosa is an award-winning Illustrator and Designer from Bogotá, Colombia, whose work has been featured internationally in a variety of publications, products, animated series and gallery shows. His short list includes The New Yorker, The New York Times, the BBC, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Chronicle Books, Swatch, and Facebook. , from the American Library Association. The New York Times bestselling children's book was written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Junot Díaz.
Leo's work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, and 3x3. In 2019, he received the Pura Belpré Honor Book award for Islandborn
Most days you'll find him drawing picture books, unless he's out riding his bike in the mountains around Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife.

Society of Illustrators 54 - Gold Medal.
Society of Illustrators 51, 52, 55 - Silver Medals.
Communication Arts - Illustration, Design, and Typography Annuals.
Pictoplasma Character Encyclopaedia and Character Compendium.
3x3 Pro Show 2013 - Gold in Editorial & Conceptual.
Society of Illustrators - Stevan Dohanos Award 2012.
Society of Illustrators Original Art Show 2015 - Dilys Evans Founder's Award.
Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration 2019.
Society of Illustrators Original Art Show 2022 - Gold Medal.

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Leo Espinosa's illustration and design studio

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Young Toni knows that her stories are going to change the world. She's good at spinning a yarn, and in fact, she thinks she might be able to spin her stories into gold if she tries hard enough. Maybe her stories can even lead her to buried treasure?