Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics (2017)
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot―the Latinos featured in this collection, Bravo!, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today!
Biographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, César Chávez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Félix Varela, George Meléndez, José Martí, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpré, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, Tomás Rivera
by Margarita Engle (Author), Rafael Lopez (Illustrator)
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American winner of the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her award winning young adult novels in verse include The Surrender Tree, The Poet Slave of Cuba, and The Lightning Dreamer, winner of the PEN USA Award.Engle’s most recent books are Orangutanka, Drum Dream Girl, The Sky Painter, and Enchanted Air. All of these books are to be released in 2015. For news and updates, visit http://margaritaengle.com/She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.
Rafael López is an mexican recognized illustrator and artist A children’s book illustrator, he has received two Pura Belpré Award medals from the American Library Association for Drum Dream Girl and Book Fiesta! He was chosen by the Library of Congress to create the National Book Festival Poster and has been a featured book festival speaker at this event. The illustrations created by López bring diverse characters to children’s books and he works to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people. His illustrations for Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics was honored with the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators New York Original Art Exhibition. The book Maybe Something Beautiful based on his own work reclaiming neighborhoods with community murals secured the Tomás Rivera Book Award. Additional children’s books have received three Pura Belpré honors and two Américas Book Awards for illustration. The Fall 2018 release of The Day You Begin written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by López made the New York Times Bestseller List as #1 Children’s Picture Book.
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