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Let's learn about Maya Christina Gonzalez!

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Let's learn about Maya Christina Gonzalez!

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Maya is an artist, author, illustrator, educator, and activist. Watch the video below of an interview with Maya.

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Inspired to educate children and educators about the importance of creativity as a tool for personal empowerment.

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- The reader joins a child on a journey of self-discovery through finding a way to grow from the inside out, just like a tree. The child develops as an individual comfortable in the natural world and in relationships with others. This book is written in both Spanish and English and each page shows children of diverse races.

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Awards / Honorable Mentions:

Kirkus' Best Picture Books of 2014 that Celebrate Diversity

Teja Star Reading List Texas Library Association (TLA)

Beast Books of the Year, Honorable Mention: The Huffington Post

Choices: Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

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Listen to the book "Call Me Tree / Llámame Árbol" by Maya Gonzalez!

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Listen to the book "Call Me Tree / Llámame Árbol" by Maya Gonzalez!

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CALL ME TREE | LLAMAME ARBOL | BILINGUAL BOOKS FOR KIDS

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Her work with children in public schools helped her develop lines of curriculum that offer a holistic approach to learning

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If you want to find more books written and/or illustrated by Maya this is the place to go. You can also find so many useful resources such as: Educational Tools, Blog, The Gender Wheel, and so much more. Click the picture below to check it out!

P.S. Look at the upper right hand side of the page and watch the video!

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Maya Gonzalez - Artist, Author, Educator, Activist

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Home - Maya Gonzalez - Artist, Author, Educator, Activist

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My Color, My World/ Mis colores, mi mundo

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My Color, My World/ Mis colores, mi mundo

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Awards / Honorable Mentions:

2008 Pura Belpre Honor Award from the American Library Association

Américas Award Commended Title

Texas 2×2 Reading List Selection, Texas Library Association

Críticas Magazine’s Best Children and YA Books of 2007

International Latino Book Awards, Best Children’s Picture Book, Bilingual, 2nd Place

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Listen to the read aloud of "My Color, My World/ Mis colores, mi mundo" by Maya Gonzalez.

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Listen to the read aloud of "My Color, My World/ Mis colores, mi mundo" by Maya Gonzalez.

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My Colors, My World/ Mis Colores, Mi Mundo

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- Summary: a memoir about a Mexican-American girl who shares a room with five brothers and longs to find a corner of her house she can call her own.
- Bilingual: Spanish/English
- Published in 2000
- Written by Amanda Irma Perez
- Illustrated by Maya Gonzalez

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Check Out Maya Gonzalez talking about her book "I Know the River Loves Me".

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Check Out Maya Gonzalez talking about her book "I Know the River Loves Me".

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I Know the River Loves Me by Maya Gonzalez

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"We do that more personal work inside so that as our voice comes out into the world it has greater strength and power to it and more authenticity which is not often taught or embraced in our culture and so....how to become free in an unfree world in a sense and how that frees our voice." -Maya Gonzalez

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- Part storybook and part guided journal. It uncovers the truth about a very real and personal experience of peace and how to create it in our lives.

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Watch this short video about "I See Peace"!

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Watch this short video about "I See Peace"!

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Focusing on the very big idea of peace, i see peace uncovers the truth about a very real and personal experience of peace and how we each can begin creating it in our own lives. Surprise! it’s often not what we think. 

Award-winning children’s book illustrator/author and educator, Maya Gonzalez uses simple words and even more simple ink drawings to create both a universal and intimate experience of peace. Encouraging kids to allow peace to become something real and personal and possible and from there be able to talk about and work for it effectively. This peace movement begins within with the trust that the more we know peace for ourselves the more we create it. Come play with Maya and learn that peace is often closer than we think.

www.reflectionpress.com/picturepeace

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1. Children's Picture Books
2. Fiction

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I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama

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I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama

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Awards / Honorable Mentions:

Américas Award Honorable Mention

International Latino Book Award, Best Children's Picture book, 2nd Place

ForeWord Book of the Year Award, Finalist

ReadBoston Best Read Aloud Book Award, Finalist

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Home. (2020, August 16). Maya Gonzalez - Artist, Author, Educator, Activist. http://www.mayagonzalez.com/

I See Peace. (2021, April 22). Reflection Press. https://reflectionpress.com/our-books/i-see-peace/

My Very Own Room. (n.d.). PublishersWeekly.Com. Retrieved April 27, 2021, from https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-89239-164-6

P. (2021, February 6). Call Me Tree/ Llámame Árbol. Social Justice Books. https://socialjusticebooks.org/call-me-tree-llamame-arbol/#:%7E:text=Publisher’s%20Synopsis%3A%20In%20this%20spare,and%20in%20relationships%20with%20others.

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2000 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, My Very Own Room

2001 “Hispanic Americans Profiles of Excellence” Honoree of ABC-7 and San Francisco Board Of Supervisors

2001 “Hecho En Califas: The Last Decade” Certificate of Recognition, State of California Senate

2007 San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant

2007 San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant

In 2017, They She He Me: Free to Be got a School Library Journal Starred Review