Maya Christina Gonzalez gets lots of love in the REFORMA newsletter

All illustrators and authors create in different ways. Maya Christina Gonzalez provides insight into her creative process in an article featured recently in the REFORMA newsletter.* In this wonderful article, Maya discusses the second book that she wrote and illustrated, I Know the River Loves Me. The book recently received an Américas Award Honorable Mention and 2^nd place in the International Latino Book Awards category for bilingual children’s books. Maya states, “the book was very organic, rising from my relationship with the [Yuba] river.”  Explaining the importance of multi-cultural children’s books, she says, “when we see ourselves, something fundamental happens inside of us.”  Read the article to learn more about Maya Christina Gonzalez and her inspiration for I Know the River Loves Me.

*REFORMA is the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, and is an affiliate of the American Library Association.

Submitted by Childrens Book Press on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:58pm