Monica Brown is an award-winning author of more than 30 multicultural picturebooks, including "Waiting for the Biblioburro," "Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match" and "Frida and her Animalitos." Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post and NPR, and she has received two Américas Awards and a Christopher Award. Her latest books are "Doña Fela's Dream" and "She Persisted: Dolores Huerta."
Awards: Américas Award (twice); Christopher Award; Orbus Pictus Honor; Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos is a NYTimes/NYPL Best Illustrated Book of 2017
Communities: Arizona Author, Hispanic or Latinx, Mixed Race, Person with a Disability
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