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A Journey of Transformation — The Zena Sutherland Lecture
"I like to say things with my voice, and with my jaranita." A screenshot from Morales's presentation of the Zena Sutherland Lecture. Image courtesy of Yuyi Morales. My voice, like the voice of most everybody, is made of many different ways of saying things. I like to say things with...
Register for Yuyi Morales's 2022 Zena Sutherland Lecture
Zoom registration is open for the 2022 Zena Sutherland Lecture, presented by Yuyi Morales on May 6, 2022:...
Bright Star
Waiting for a new Yuyi Morales picture book feels a bit like waiting for your favorite band to finally release their new single. Luckily for us, Morales does not disappoint. Bright Star begins as a meditation. “Child, / you are awake! / Breathe in, / then breathe out, / hermosa...
Review of Bright Star
Bright Star by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4328-4 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4784-8 $18.99 Morales’s (Dreamers, rev. 9/18) latest sensitive and evocative picture book opens with a wide-eyed whitetail fawn curled up in a creosote bush, guilelessly peeking up at the reader....
A Note from Me (May 21, 2021)
Dear friends: I need to pass along a curse. Last week I did a Talks with Roger interview with Nidhi Chanani about her new graphic novel Jukebox. And now this song is stuck in my head, but I figure if enough of you listen to it, it might leave me...
Lighting the Candle: ¡Bórralo!
From the May/June 2021 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The Pura Belpré Award at 25. Find more in the "Lighting the Candle" series here....
A Note from Me (May 14, 2021)
Dear friends: Jason Reynolds’s Zena Sutherland Lecture was a smashing success last Friday. As far as I could see, he spoke without a text or even notes, moving brilliantly and seamlessly from stories about his recently deceased father to just what those stories meant in terms of bringing him and...
Dreamers: Yuyi Morales's 2019 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
Two years ago, I was in my studio and decided to write a picture book that I had been promising my editor and my agent — that I had promised myself — to write, but I was dubious. How to tell that story, from more than two decades ago, of...
Dreamers
Martha referred to 2018 (back in this post) as a “year of blockbusters,” and Yuyi Morales’s Dreamers may be the biggest blockbuster of them all. It’s a picture book that has gotten a lot of attention and adoration this year (one professional review calls it nothing less than a “masterpiece”)...
Review of Dreamers
Dreamersby Yuyi Morales; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.9/18 978-0-8234-4055-9 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4125-9 $18.99Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4258-4 $18.99Two pairs of eyes shine from the cover of Morales’s book — the infant’s eyes brilliant with curiosity, his mother’s gaze pensive. These two “migrantes” arrive on “the other side, / thirsty, in awe, /...
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