Bring the whole family to a festival session with an incredible group of picture book cuentistas. These authors will share vibrant, poetic, and meaningful multigenerational stories that celebrate heritage, tradition, and amor for familia con mucho corazón.
| Where: | Nuestras Raíces Stage (Seats 150)    |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Pima County Public Library/Nuestras Raíces/Craft Tent & Signing Area (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Nuestras Raices |
| Moderator: | Azucena Bravo |
María Dolores Águila is a Chicana poet and author writing about resistance and resilience. Her award-winning picture book "Barrio Rising" was featured by NPR, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly....
Paloma Angelina Lopez is a mother, student, and creative writer living in Salina, Oklahoma. She grew up partly in New Mexico and California. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico. "Popo the Xolo" was written during a period of loss and change in Lopez’s life....
Yuyi Morales was born in Xalapa, Mexico, the city of flowers and springs. After migrating to the United States in 1994, she found comfort in public libraries, where she read children’s books with her son and rediscovered her love of storytelling and art....
Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border, in Nogales, AZ where she embraced the languages, cultures and people from infancy. A lifelong bilingual educator, Roni began teaching at 21 yrs....
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