About The Author
Jacqueline Woodson recibió la Beca MacArthur 2020, el Premio Hans Christian Andersen 2020, el Premio Astrid Lindgren Memorial 2018 y el Premio Children’s Literature Legacy 2018. Es la Artista Residente en Educación del Kennedy Center 2022 y la Embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil 2018-2019. Su libro de memorias, Brown Girl Dreaming, best seller del New York Times, ganó el Premio National Book, el Premio Coretta Scott King, un premio de Honor Newbery y un Premio NAACP Image. Entre sus docenas de libros para niños se encuentran Before the Ever After, ganador del Premio Coretta Scott King y un premio NAACP Image; The Day You Begin y Harbor Me, best sellers del New York Times; y los ganadores del Premio de Honor Newbery Feathers, Show Way y After Tupac and D Foster; así como Each Kindness, que ganó el Premio Jane Addams Children’s Book. Vive con su familia en Brooklyn, Nueva York.Leo Espinosa es un ilustrador y diseñador de Bogotá (Colombia), ganador de un best seller del New York Times. Entre sus libros ilustrados se encuentran Islandborn (de Junot Díaz), por el que ganó un premio Pura Belpré de ilustración, No More Naps! (de Chris Grabenstein) y Goldfish on Vacation (de Sally Lloyd-Jones). Sus ilustraciones premiadas han sido reconocidas por American Illustration, Communication Arts, Pictoplasma, 3x3 y la Sociedad de Ilustradores (Medallas de Oro y Plata). Ha impartido además múltiples conferencias y talleres en escuelas e instituciones como la Parsons School of Design y el Pratt Institute, además de formar parte del profesorado de la Rhode Island School of Design.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONJacqueline Woodson is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She is the 2022 Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, and was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, and an NAACP Image Award. She also wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a National Book Award finalist. Her dozens of books for young readers include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me, Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster, and the picture book Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.Leo Espinosa is a New York Times bestselling illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia. His picture books include Islandborn (by Junot Diaz), for which he was awarded a Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor, No More Naps (by Chris Grabenstein), and Goldfish on Vacation (by Sally Lloyd-Jones). His award-winning illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, Pictoplasma, 3x3, and the Society of Illustrators (Gold and Silver Medals). In addition, he has given multiple lectures and workshops at schools and institutions such as Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute, as well as serving on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design.