Lil Nina Isa Blog

A Blog about the Childrens Book Lil Nina Isa. My wife and I are an interracial couple who wanted to create a character that our child could identify with. We want to show that being from two different cultures is amazing and there is always something new to learn.

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Okay awesome followers so if you didn’t know already my wife and I have been working on a children’s book. It’s about a Bi-racial and bi-lingual little girl who is proud to come from two different cultures. We started this book because we had or first child just shy of a year ago. We had a baby shower and one of the things we asked for was if everyone could bring a book. Well we got a ton of awesome books some classics and some new but what we didn’t see were any books that dealt with being mixed or multiracial. So we created Lil Nina Isa and started making a book for her to read when shes older. I had this idea rolling around in my head for awhile because I’m a huge Steven universe fan and I thought a Bi-racial child would really dig Garnet. My baby girl is made of love and shes stronger than you lol.

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“Sometimes I dance hip-hop!” This is a page from the Lil Niña Isa children’s book my wife and I are working on about being a multiracial child. Being a mixed race kid you have the pleasure of learning from not just one culture. We started this book when we had our first child and we wanted to make something she could relate too. It’s amazing and I hope you guys like it. Stay tuned we are thinking of a Kickstart for the book.

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A W.I.P page from the Lil Niña Isa Children's book my wife and I are creating about being mixed. Here I brought a little old school hip hop in her attire. Run DMC and LL cool J where my inspirations. Being mixed race you get the pleasure of coming from different cultures and when they collide and join together they make amazing music together. Learning to love all the different people is what it's all about. Don't be a sucka MC

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Hey here is a page from the Lil Niña Isa children's book. My wife and I created this book for our daughter so that she can see someone like her in the many books we own. In the book Isa is a multiracial and bilingual little girl showing children the differences in her family. This page shows the many different skin tones of the people Isa loves. Almost done illustrating all the pages this has been such a wonderful struggle.

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Working on another page from the Children's book. This is Abuela she is always so happy when Lil nina Isa comes to visit. It’s really nice to be apart of two amazing cultures.

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Okay awesome followers so if you didn’t know already my wife and I have been working on a children’s book. It’s about a Bi-racial and bi-lingual little girl who is proud to come from two different cultures. We started this book because we had or first child just shy of a year ago. We had a baby shower and one of the things we asked for was if everyone could bring a book. Well we got a ton of awesome books some classics and some new but what we didn’t see were any books that dealt with being mixed or multiracial. So we created Lil Nina Isa and started making a book for her to read when shes older. I had this idea rolling around in my head for awhile because I’m a huge Steven universe fan and I thought a Bi-racial child would really dig Garnet. My baby girl is made of love and shes stronger than you lol.