Growing up in Veracruz, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, Yuyi (pronounced “ZHOO-zhee” ) Morales remembers many nights spent sitting by the sewing machine. She would draw and doodle, while her mother stitched ...

In Little Rebels, author-illustrator Yuyi Morales draws on her Mexican heritage to inspire young readers to work together to be friends to the Earth and its beings. Due from Holiday House’s Neal ...

Author-illustrator Yuyi Morales and editor Neal Porter have worked together on six books, but Morales’s newest, Dreamers, is her most personal work to date. It recounts, in poetic form, the story of ...

A Caldecott Honor artist and five-time recipient of the Pura Belpré Award for Illustration, Yuyi Morales arrives at BookExpo from her hometown of Yelapa, Mexico, to introduce booksellers to her most ...

Tuesday marks the release of National Book Award-winning author Sherman Alexie’s new children's book. Not only is Thunder Boy Jr. a vibrant story about family and identity, but it’s also a personal ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source Yuyi Morales hadn’t planned on her immigration story becoming fodder for a children’s book. But as the ...

Morales (Georgia in Hawaii) takes her theme from Mexican professional wrestling, and the resulting story is every bit as fun and campy as the theatrical fighting it’s based on. The stars of “lucha ...

Yuyi Morales, photos by Tim O’Meara. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59643-603-9 Readers will recognize Morales’s (Niño Wrestles the World) handmade Frida Kahlo doll from Kahlo’s ...

Two of the most celebrated Latino children’s book authors were honored earlier this week as Marjorie Agosín and Yuyi Morales took home the 2015 Pura Belpré award for best author and best illustrator, ...

0000018f-87f9-dcea-afcf-cff957450000 Writer and artist Yuyi Morales; Credit: Antonio Turok The new children's book "Thunder Boy Jr." is all about a little boy who's not so happy about his name. He's ...

Latina children's author-illustrator Yuyi Morales says her cache of quirky characters artfully helps dislodge stereotypes before they morph into a younger generation's cultural divide. "It makes me ...