Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima's Rebellion ; Your Heart, My Sky ; With a Star in My Hand ; The Surrender Tree , a Newbery Honor winner; The Lightning Dreamer ; and Wild Dreamers , a Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor book. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air , which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl , Dancing Hands , and The Flying Girl . Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com. John Parra's illustrations for Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos , written by Monica Brown, earned the book a New York Times Best Illustrated Book designation. He also illustrated Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Thong, which received a Pura Belpré Honor and the Américas Book Award: Commended; Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans by Phil Bildner, which won the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration and was a Bank Street Best Book of the year; and Hey, Wall , by Susan Verde, which School Library Journal called "a must-purchase" in a starred review. Learn more at JohnParraArt.

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