Books edited by David Bowles Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Río Grande Valley (2011) Along the River 2: More Voices from the Río Grande (2012) Along the River III: Dark Voices from the Río Grande (2014) Donna Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings (2012) Stories That Must Not Die…
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…
Information on original text. The manuscript known as the Florentine Codex is a three-volume copy of a Nahuatl-Spanish bilingual work titled Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana library in Florence. The 2400-page ethnography is the result of decades of research conducted by…
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.
The magazine Shelf Awareness has selected They Call Me Güero for their Best Books of 2018 list!
Each year the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) establishes a committee for the NCTE Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry. That committee goes on to create a list of Notable Poetry Books for children ages 3-13 published throughout the year. I am honored that the committee has selected They Call Me…
Each year, School Library Journal selects 80 or so titles published that year that they believe will stand the test of time. I’m so honored to announced that They Call Me Güero has been included on the 2018 Best Books list!
If you were part of my talk at “Más Fuerte Together: A Roundtable on the State of Latinx Publishing,” here is the article I referenced: Naidoo.Quiroa.2016.Beyond.Calaveras
Today Latinxs in Kid Lit hosted the reveal of The Chupacabras of the Río Grande (book 4 of the Unicorn Rescue Society series). I’m so proud of the work Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly and I did on this one! I can’t wait for you all to meet Choopi (the young chupacabras you…
