I’m delighted to see that My Two Border Towns is one of the books selected for the 2022 NCTE/CLA Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award! Check out the entire list on the Children’s Literature Assembly website.
Bank Street College’s Center for Children’s Literature has selected Mis dos pueblos fronterizos as one of The Best Children’s Picture Books of the Year in Spanish. Find the full list here: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/17/
Kirkus Reviews has selected My Two Border Towns as one of the Best Picture Books of 2021.
Excited to announce that the New York Public Library has picked SIX of my projects for their Best Books 2021 lists! For teens, The Witch Owl Parliament (illustrated by Raúl the Third). For kids, My Two Border Towns and Mis dos pueblos fronterizos (illustrated by Erika Meza), El ascenso del…
School Library Journal has selected two books of mine for inclusion on their lists of Best Books of the year. My Two Border Towns (illustrated by Erika Meza) is on the Best Picture Books List. My translation and expansion of María García Esperón’s The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the…
So delighted to see Rise of the Halfling King (illustrated by Charlene Bowles) on Kirkus’s list of Best Middle-Grade Graphic Novels of 2020!
At the Texas Book Festival, the Texas Library Association (TLA) announced the twenty books that made it onto the curated Bluebonnet List. They Call Me Güero was one of the lucky titles! Each year, 20 books are chosen for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Many schools and libraries around…
My book They Call Me Güero has been awarded a White Raven! That means it’s been selected by the very prestigious International Youth Library Foundation for inclusion in their annual catalogue of recommended titles for international children’s & youth literature: 200 books in 37 languages from 59 countries. They Call…
I’m delighted to announce that They Call Me Güero was selected as one of the National Endowment of the Arts Read Across America titles for middle-grade readers! I’m especially proud and excited to be part of the project’s mission, to “motivate kids to read and celebrate the diversity in their…
Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico made the Kirkus list of Best YA Books of 2018! Seventy-five titles are on the list, in eight categories. The one FSDHS was selected for–Books That Feed Imaginations–is perfect for my retelling of these crucial ancestral tales.
