Authors and Illustrators
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Craig Orback
Craig Orback is a fine artist who has illustrated many highly praised books for children, several of which focus on historical subjects. The Can Man especially appealed to Orback because... -
Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Kristy Orona-Ramirez (Taos Pueblo/Tarahumara) grew up in California’s San Gabriel Valley. From an early age, she showed a penchant for the creative arts, and has been writing short stories and... -
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz is a Puebloan writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American... -
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz is a Puebloan writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American... -
Mariana Osorio Gumá
Mariana Osorio Gumá is a psychoanalyst and writer. She has published seven books of fiction in Spanish, three of which have been selected by the International Board on Books for... -
Emma Otheguy
Emma Otheguy is a children’s book author and a historian of Spain and colonial Latin America. She is a member of the Bank Street Writers Lab, and her short story... -
Kathryn Otoshi
Kathryn Otoshi is a cat lover and an award-winning author and illustrator who has always wanted to do a children s picture book based on her own Japanese heritage. She... -
Sara Palacios
Sara Palacios was born in Mexico City. She holds degrees in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Digital Graphic Techniques, and is pursuing her MFA in Illustration at the Academy of Art... -
Genna Panzarella
Genna Panzarella is an artist and teacher living near San Francisco, where she and her husband raised two sons. When she is not teaching or creating art, you will find... -
Ginger Park
Ginger Park and her sister Frances Park are the co-authors of My Freedom Trip, winner of the IRA Children’s Book Award, and The Royal Bee, a Parents’ Choice Commended Book.... -
Frances Park
Frances Park and her sister Ginger Park are the co-authors of Where on Earth is My Bagel?, published by Lee & Low Books, and The Have a Good Day Cafe.... -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) devoted herself to the nonviolent pursuit of human rights, especially young people’s rights, since refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a... -
John Parra
John Parra is a graphic artist, an illustrator, and a fine artist. His paintings have been exhibited in many gallery shows around the United States, and much of his work... -
Ambar Past
Poet Ambar Past immigrated to Mexico when she was 23. Thirty years ago she made her home in rural Chiapas and learned to speak Tzotzil Mayan. Since moving to Chiapas... -
Rodney Pate
Rodney S. Pate has been illustrating books for children for more than twenty years, and his fine art work has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York... -
Sonia Patel
Sonia Patel knows teenagers inside and out. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii, she has spent over fifteen years listening to... -
Kimberly Pauley
Kimberly Pauley is the author of the award-winning Sucks to Be Me, which was honored on the YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list. The sequel, Still Sucks to Be... -
Elaine Pedlar
Elaine Pedlar was born in Queens, New York, the youngest girl of seven children. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1987 and, since then, has been a fashion...
