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*Raúl specializes in writing fictional early readers for children

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Another bilingual board book where Coco Rocho tells us everything you may need to throw a fiesta (party)!

"Friends, cake, music - amigos, pastel, musica"

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A bilingual board book where Coco Rocho shows us all all the places you can take a siesta (nap)!

"In my bed. En mi cama.
Near my dog. Cerca de mi perro.
With my stuffed animals. Con mi peluches."

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The second book in the ¡Vamos! series tells the story of Little Lobo going to different food trucks that sell his favorite foods to get food for his Luchador friends. Much like the rest of the ¡Vamos! series, this book also includes Spanish vocabulary as well as details of Mexican foods and Mexican Wrestling.

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"The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth." (Pura Belpré Award | Awards & Grants, 2022)

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Raul's first authorial project ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market tells the story of a later reoccurring character Little Lobo (wolf in Spanish) who lives in a town along the border of Mexico and the U.S.
The book incorporates Spanish vocabulary and details about Mexican culture into a fun story of a wolf visiting the market and delivering goods to different vendors.
The book is both written and drawn by Raúl.

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Raúl The Third is a New York Times bestselling and three-time Pura Belpre award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge was awarded one of the year's Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2021 from the New York Times and the New York Public Library. He is currently adapting his World of Vamos! books into an animated television series with Silvergate Media and Mercury Filmworks. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

¡Vamos! Let's Go to The Market! is Raúl's first authorial project, which he wrote and illustrated, and is colored by Elaine Bay was awarded a Pura Belpre honor by the American Library Association and Reforma.

Vamos! Let's go Eat was awarded the Pura Belpre award in illustration by the American Library Association and Reforma.

Lowriders in Space was nominated for a Texas BlueBonnet award in 2016-2017 and Raúl was awarded the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration by the American Library Association for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. Lowriders Blast from the Past and Lowriders to the Rescue are the third and fourth books in the series. He was also a contributor to the SpongeBob Comics series.

He is the co-creator of Strollercoaster with Matthew Ringler and Elaine Bay from Little Brown and Company.

He is currently collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds on Stuntboy in the Meantime from Simon and Schuster.

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Raúl The Third is a New York Times bestselling and three-time Pura Belpre award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge was awarded one of the year's Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2021 from the New York Times and the New York Public Library.

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Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner, 2021 for ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor, 2020 for ¡Vamos! Let's Go To the Market

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner, 2017 for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth

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Raúl González III was born in El Paso, Texas in 1976. He grew up in both El Paso, where his father was from, and the neighboring city of Juárez, Mexico, where his mother was from. He now lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Raúl started his career as an artist, his work including paintings, graphic novel illustrations, and comic book illustrations.
Raúl then began illustrating for children's books in 2014, some of his most notable illustrations being those featured in the Lowriders in Space series written by Cathy Camper.
Later, in 2019, Raúl authored his first book ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market, the first book of his now popular ¡Vamos! series. This series was inspired by his own experience growing up in a "border town" and is his way of sharing his Mexican heritage with young readers!