https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez Author Study Bibliography en-us 2021-04-15 00:00:22 UTC 2026-01-20 01:33:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f33b.png akm11 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1418871525 Maya is an artist, author, illustrator, educator, and activist. Watch the video below of an interview with Maya.]]> 2021-04-15 00:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1418871525 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421524194 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! ]]> 2021-04-15 15:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421524194 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421531227 Inspired to educate children and educators about the importance of creativity as a tool for personal empowerment.]]> 2021-04-15 15:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421531227 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421553048 "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 ]]> 2021-04-15 15:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421553048 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421554142 - 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. ]]> 2021-04-15 15:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421554142 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421570067

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.

]]> 2021-04-15 15:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421570067 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421581066 - 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]]> 2021-04-15 15:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421581066 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421587702 - 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. ]]> 2021-04-15 15:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421587702 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421604132 1. Children's Picture Books
2. Fiction]]> 2021-04-15 15:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1421604132 emd19 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1438739922 Her work with children in public schools helped her develop lines of curriculum that offer a holistic approach to learning ]]> 2021-04-20 16:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1438739922 akm11 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1440269320 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)

]]> 2021-04-20 23:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1440269320 akm11 https://padlet.com/akm11/MayaCGonzalez/wish/1440275373 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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• 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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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 

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