Tucson Festival of Books

Home Meets the Heart in Words & Images


How do words and images come together to tell stories of heart? Join bestsellers Matt de la Peña and Loren Long, as they share their collaboration to create "Home." Andrea Rogers and Rebecca Lee Kunz share their collaboration to tell a family story based in Cherokee cultural traditions, "Chooch Helped."


Panelists
Matt de la Peña

Matt de la Peña is the Newbery Medal–winning author of "Last Stop on Market Street." He is also the author of the award-winning picturebooks "The Perfect Place," "Milo Imagines the World," "Carmela Full of Wishes," and "A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis," as well as critically acclaimed young adult novels....

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Rebecca Lee Kunz

Rebecca Lee Kunz grew up in Oklahoma and went on to earn a BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe. She is an artist and the owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, NM, where she runs her business and lives with her husband and raises three daughters....

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Loren Long

Loren Long is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Otis picture book series, now an animated television series. He’s also the illustrator of the New York Times bestsellers "Of Thee I Sing" by Barack Obama, "Love" by Matt de la Peña, and "Change Sings" by Amanda Gorman....

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Andrea Rogers

Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but currently attends The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville as a doctoral student in English. Andrea graduated with an MFA from the Low Rez program at the Institute for American Indian Arts....

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Books:
Home
Matt de la Peña
Children
Penguin Group
March 2025
ISBN 9780593110898
48 pages

Chooch Helped
Rebecca Lee Kunz, Andrea Rogers
Children
Levine Querido
October 2024
ISBN 9781646144549
48 pages
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The Yellow Bus
Loren Long
Children
Roaring Brook Press
June 2024
ISBN 9781250903136
48 pages
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Love
Matt de la Peña
Children
Penguin Young Readers Group
January 2018
ISBN 9781524740917
40 pages
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