Hispanic Heritage Month
Author / Illustrator Studies
from #ClassroomBookADay founder
Jillian Heise, NBCT, MLIS
@heisereads
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Juana Martinez-Neal
Hispanic Heritage Month Author / Illustrator Study
Born in Lima, Peru
2020 Robert F. Sibert Medal for Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
2019 Caldecott Honor for Alma and How She Got Her Name
2019 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Honor for Alma and How She Got Her Name
2018 Pura Belpré Illustrator Winner for La Princesa and the Pea
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Jacqueline Alcántara
Hispanic Heritage Month Illustrator Study
Latina
2016 Inaugural We Need Diverse Books Illustrator Mentorship Award
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John Parra
Latino | Hispanic Roots & Heritage
2018 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
2015 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Green Is a Chile Pepper
2010 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Gracias / Thanks
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Anika Aldamuy Denise
Puerto Rican on her dad’s side
2020 Pura Belpré Author Honor �2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor �for Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
©2023 Jillian Heise | @heisereads
Raúl the Third
Hispanic Heritage Month Author / Illustrator Study
Mexican American
2021 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat
2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market
2017 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth
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Sara Palacios
Hispanic Heritage Month Illustrator Study
Native of Mexico
2020 Américas Award for Between Us and Abuela
2012 Pura Belpré Illustration Honor for Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match
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Eric Velasquez
Hispanic Heritage Month Author / Illustrator Study
Afro-Puerto Rican 2021 NAACP Image Award for She Was the First!
2018 Walter Award for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
2011 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award for Grandma’s Gift
2010 NAACP Image Award for Our Children Can Soar
1999 Coretta-Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for The Piano Man
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Luisa Uribe
Hispanic Heritage Month Illustrator Study
Lives in Bogotá, Colombia
2018 Dilys Evans Founder’s Award for The Vast Wonder of the World
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Elisa Chavarri
Hispanic Heritage Month Illustrator Study
From Lima, Peru
2021 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Sharuko
2017 Américas Commendation for Rainbow Weaver
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Duncan Tonatiuh (toh-nah-tee-YOU)
Hispanic Heritage Month Author / Illustrator Study
Mexican-American 2020, 2014 Pura Belpré Author Honor
2012 Pura Belpré Illustration Award Winner
2017, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011 Pura Belpré Illustration Honor
2016, 2014 Américas Honor | 2022, 2019, 2018, 2015 Américas Award
2016, 2015, 2014, 2012 Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award
2016, 2015 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
©2023 Jillian Heise | @heisereads
Meg Medina
Hispanic Heritage Month Author Study
First Generation Cuban American
2021 Crystal Kite Award for Evelyn del Rey is Moving Away
2021 Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children’s Literature for Evelyn del Rey is Moving Away
2019 Newbery Medal Winner for Middle Grade Novel Merci Suárez Changes Gears
2016 Pura Belpré Author Honor for Mango, Abuela, and Me
2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award for Tía Isa Wants a Car
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Leo Espinosa
From Bogotá, Colombia
2019 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Islandborn
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Monica Brown
Peruvian American
2012 Christopher Award for Waiting for the Biblioburro�2011 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Side by Side/Lado a Lado
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Margarita Engle
Hispanic Heritage Month Author Study
Cuban American
2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature
2017-2019 National Young People’s Poet Laureate�2019 USBBY Nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Award�2018 International Latino Book Award Winner & Américas Honor
for All the Way to Havana
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Rafael López
Born & Raised in Mexico City
2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award for Dancing Hands
2020 Schneider Family Book Award for Just Ask!
2019 Jane Addams Book Award for The Day You Begin
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Erika Meza
Mexican Migrant
2022 Spanish Language Picture Book Award & �2022Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award �for My Two Border Towns
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Yuyi Morales
Mexican American
2015 Caldecott Honor (1st Latina to receive a Caldecott Honor) for Viva Frida
6 Time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner
2019 Dreamers | 2015 Viva Frida | 2014 Niño Wrestles the World |
2008 Los Gatos Black on Halloween | 2009 Just In Case | 2004 Just a Minute
Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor 2010 My Abuelita | 2004 Harvesting Hope
2009 Pura Belpré Author Honor for Just In Case
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Raúl Colón
Puerto Rican
2021 Carle Honors Artist of the Year
2009 Sydney Taylor Award for As Good As Anybody
2008 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Gabito
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Angela Dominguez
Born in Mexico City & Grew Up in Texas
2016 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for Mango, Abuela, and Me
2014 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor for María Had a Little Llama
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Flavia Z. Drago
Born & Raised in Mexico City
©2023 Jillian Heise | @heisereads
©2023 Jillian Heise | @heisereads
Hispanic Heritage Month
Author / Illustrator Studies
from #ClassroomBookADay founder
Jillian Heise, NBCT, MLIS
@heisereads