Delighted to announce They Call Me Güero is a Pura Belpré Honor Book! Hugs to Cinco Puntos Press, Sylvia Vardell, Janet Wong and the entire community of Latinx writers. Much respect as well to ALSC, REFORMA, the American Library Association, and the members of the Pura Belpré Award Committee.
I am so pleased and humbled to announce that THEY CALL ME GÜERO has been selected as an Honor Book in the Young Readers category for the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature! Thanks to We Need Diverse Books and the judges. I have admired the work…
American Book Sellers Winter Institute 13. January 23rd. Memphis, Tennessee. Southwest Popular Culture American Culture Conference. February 9, 2018. Albuquerque, New Mexico. National Latino Children’s Literature Conference. February 22-24. San Antonio, Texas. FESTIBA. “The House on the Borderlands/La Frontera.” Panel moderated by David Bowles at the Outer Dark Symposium on the…
