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March 31, 2022
2022 NCTE/CLA Notable Children’s Books
I’m delighted to see that My Two Border Towns is one of the books selected for the 2022 NCTE/CLA Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award!
Check out the entire list on the Children’s Literature Assembly website.
March 2, 2022
Two Awards from TIL
TWO (2) of my books just won awards from the Texas Institute of Letters: The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas for Best Translation and The Witch Owl Parliament (Clockwork Curandera #1) for Best YA Book (which I wrote with my cool carnal and collaborator Raúl the Third).
I believe this is only the second time in TIL history that a single author has won two of the book awards.
The first time was in 2019, when I won both the middle-grade and young-adult awards.
February 28, 2022
M2BT Wins Tomás Rivera
My Two Border Towns has won the 2022 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award!
Huge congratulations to my collaborator, illustrator Érika Meza, and the other winners, Yuyi Morales and Daniel Alemán!
January 24, 2022
Batchelder Award for TSRW
So thrilled that my translation of The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas was selected as a Batchelder Honor Book by the American Library Association!
Shout-out to publisher Levine Querido, writer María García Esperón, editor Nick Thomas, and illustrator Amanda Mijangos!
January 22, 2022
THE OBSIDIAN CODEX Podcast
My Mesoamerican cosmic horror podcast The Obsidian Codex will debut on February 14, 2022 on Spotify and most other platforms.
It’s about a Mexican American archeologist who receives an ancient text that could trigger the end of the world. Will his own desperation and academic greed push him to use it? And what shadowy organization would dare place such an apocalyptic tool in his hands?
Check out the trailer!
January 18, 2022
MDPF: Best Spanish Language Picture Book
¡Qué emoción! Mis dos pueblos fronterizos was selected as the winner / gold medalist of the Premio Mejor Libro Infantil / Best Spanish Language Picture Book Award by the Spanish Language Affiliate of the Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street College of Education!
January 11, 2022
MDPF “Best Children’s Book in Spanish”
Bank Street College’s Center for Children’s Literature has selected Mis dos pueblos fronterizos as one of The Best Children’s Picture Books of the Year in Spanish.
Find the full list here: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/17/
December 14, 2021
The Prince & the Coyote
It’s happening! Levine Querido will be publishing my YA historical novel The Prince & the Coyote about how the teenage crown prince of Tetzcoco survives the fall of his city and the slaughter of his family, spending years in exile on the run from a tyrant before taking the name Nezahualcoyotl and reclaiming his kingdom … and then helping found the Triple Alliance we now know as the Aztec Empire.
The book will feature a cover and amazing interior art by Amanda Mijangos.
December 2, 2021
M2BT a Kirkus Best Book of 2021
Kirkus Reviews has selected My Two Border Towns as one of the Best Picture Books of 2021.
November 23, 2021
NYPL and CPL Lists
Excited to announce that the New York Public Library has picked SIX of my projects for their Best Books 2021 lists!
For teens, The Witch Owl Parliament (illustrated by Raúl the Third). For kids, My Two Border Towns and Mis dos pueblos fronterizos (illustrated by Erika Meza), El ascenso del rey enano (illustrated by Charlene Bowles) and Cuentos sagrados de América (which I expanded, contributing two stories and other additional material, originally written by María García Esperón, illustrated by Amanda Mijangos). And for adults, The Route of Ice and Salt, my translation of the cult classic by José Luis Zárate.
My translation of Cuentos sagrados de América, The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas, also made it onto the Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best lists!
