Lighting the Candle: Untitled

by Sara Palacios
Jun 23, 2021 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators

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. Illustration (c) 2021 by Sara Palacios.

Sara Palacios

Sara Palacios received a 2012 Belpré Honor for illustrating Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald no combina (Children's/Lee & Low). She illustrated the forthcoming A Song of Frutas (Atheneum).

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