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Rafael L\u00f3pez is a New York Times bestselling, award winning illustrator and artist born and raised in Mexico City to architect parents. His illustrations bring diverse characters to children\u2019s books and he is driven to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people.<\/p>\n

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Rafael L\u00f3pez is a New York Times bestselling, award winning illustrator, born and raised in Mexico City. His illustrations bring diverse characters to children\u2019s books and he is driven to produce books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people. He is the recipient of 3 Pura Belpr\u00e9 medals, the Schneider Family Book Award, Jane Addams Book Award, Tomas Rivera Book Award and is the illustrator of 3 New York Times bestsellers. L\u00f3pez is a founder of the Urban Art Trail movement in San Diego\u2019s East Village creating a series of large-scale murals bringing the community together.<\/p>\n

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Rafael L\u00f3pez is a New York Times bestselling, award winning illustrator and artist who was born and raised in Mexico City to architect parents. His illustrations bring diverse characters to children\u2019s books and he is driven to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people. He is the recipient of 3 Pura Belpr\u00e9 medals, the Schneider Family Book Award, Jane Addams Book Award, Tomas Rivera Book Award and is the illustrator of 3 New York Times bestsellers. He was the first guest artist of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in 2022. L\u00f3pez is a founder of the Urban Art Trail movement in San Diego\u2019s East Village creating a series of large-scale murals that brought the community together. Rafael lives and works in an industrial loft in downtown San Diego and at his home\/studio in the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.<\/p>\n

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BOOK COVERS AND INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

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Nobel Peace Prize winners His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu share their own childhood struggles to show young listeners how they can thrive and find joy even during the most challenging times in this adaptation of the international bestseller The Book of Joy.<\/p>\n

If you just focus on the thing that is making you sad, then the sadness is all you see. But if you look around, you will see that joy is everywhere. In their only collaboration for children, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu use their childhood stories to show young people how to find joy even in hard times and why sharing joy with others makes it grow. The two spiritual masters tell a simple story of how every child has joy inside them, even when it sometimes hides, and how we can find it, keep it close, and grow it by sharing it with the world.<\/p>\n

Sprung from the friendship, humor, and deep affection between these holy men, the book is a perfectly timed and important gift from two revered spiritual leaders to children. It is a reminder that joy is abundant\u2014no matter what challenges we face\u2014and has the power to transform the world around us even in the darkest of times.<\/p>\n

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Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael L\u00f3pez’s highly anticipated companion to their #1 New YorkTimes bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence.<\/p>\n

On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmother\u2019s advice: \u201cUse those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just as bored you are now.\u201d And before they know it, their imaginations lift them up and out of their boredom. Then, on a day full of quarrels, it\u2019s time for a trip outside their minds again, and they are able to leave their anger behind. This precious skill, their grandmother tells them, harkens back to the days long before they were born, when their ancestors showed the world the strength and resilience of their beautiful and brilliant minds. Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s lyrical text and Rafael Lopez\u2019s dazzling art celebrate the extraordinary ability to lift ourselves up and imagine a better world.<\/p>\n

\u2605 New York Times Bestseller.
<\/strong>\u2605 Kirkus Prize Finalist<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A heartwarming text honoring the ever-evolving relationship of a parent and child across time, with visually striking art by bestselling and award-winning artist Rafael L\u00f3pez. Each evening when the sun has set, as nighttime casts a starry net, I’ll hitch a ride on moonbeams, and meet you in your dreams. This poetic and tender story celebrates the parent-and-child bond in its many forms and offers gentle assurance of love across a lifetime. Two parents’ dreams of the future with their children\u2014from early dependence for nourishment and basic needs, to the parent as home base for a child in later life\u2014mirror an always-changing but unbreakable relationship. Written in lyrical rhyme and accompanied by breathtaking art by the incomparable Rafael L\u00f3pez, I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams affirms that parental love is a constant force, transcending boundaries of space and time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 Amazon Editor\u2019s Pick: Best Books Ages 3-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Number-One New York Times Best Seller!<\/span><\/p>\n

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and award-winning artist Rafael Lopez create a kind and caring book about the differences that make each of us unique. <\/span><\/p>\n

Feeling different, especially as a kid, can be tough. But in the same way that different types of plants and flowers make a garden more beautiful and enjoyable, different types of people make our world more vibrant and wonderful. <\/span><\/p>\n

In Just Ask, United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor celebrates the different abilities kids (and people of all ages) have. Using her own experience as a child who was diagnosed with diabetes, Justice Sotomayor writes about children with all sorts of challenges – and looks at the special powers those kids have as well. As the kids work together to build a community garden, asking questions of each other along the way, this book encourages listeners to do the same: When we come across someone who is different from us but we’re not sure why, all we have to do is Just Ask.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 New York Times #1 Bestseller.
<\/strong>\u2605 2020 Schneider Medal. American Library Association.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a little girl, Teresa Carre\u00f1o loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst of all, there was fighting in her new home, too – the Civil War. <\/span><\/p>\n

Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata – so famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House! Yet with the country torn apart by war, could Teresa\u2019s music bring comfort to those who needed it most?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2020 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal. American Library Association.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Award-winning illustrator Rafael L\u00f3pez breathes new life to the famous spiritual with a bilingual adaptation of “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” that celebrates the life of every young person in the world. The rhythmic verse and repetitive emphasis on “we” and “our” advocate for inclusive communities and promote unity and friendship all around the world.”We’ve got you and you got me in our hands.We have the whole world in our hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices and a Number-One New York Times Best Seller! <\/span><\/p>\n

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr\u00e9 Illustrator Award winner Rafael L\u00f3pez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael L\u00f3pez’s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 New York Times #1 Bestseller.
<\/strong><\/span>\u2605 2017 Jane Addams Book Award.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot\u2015the Latinos featured in Bravo!, by author Margarita Engle and illustrator Rafael L\u00f3pez, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. <\/span><\/p>\n

Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today! <\/span><\/p>\n

Biographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, F\u00e9lix Varela, George Mel\u00e9ndez, Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpr\u00e9, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, Tom\u00e1s Rivera.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2017 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine! Based on the true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe Something Beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation – and how even the smallest artists can accomplish something big. Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2018 Read for the Record
\u2605 ALA Notable Book
\u2605 2017 Tomas Rivera Book Award
\u2605 2016 Best Book of the Year Kirkus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule\u2014until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bong\u00f3s. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream. <\/span><\/p>\n

Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba’s traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2016 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal. American Library Association
<\/strong>\u2605 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal. American Library Association
\u2605 The Amelia Bloomer Book List<\/span>
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From musical prodigy on the streets of Harlem to five-time Grammy Award winner, Tito’s life was full of rhythm, with drums and claves, saxophones and tambourines all part of the fun. From musical prodigy on the streets of Harlem to five-time Grammy Award winner, Tito’s life was full of rhythm, with drums and claves, saxophones and tambourines all part of the fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2014 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Honor. American Library Association<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the story of how the farm maiden and all the farm animals worked together to make the rice pudding that they serve at the fiesta. With the familiarity of “The House That Jack Built,” this story bubbles and builds just like the ingredients of the arroz con leche that everyone enjoys. Cleverly incorporating Spanish words, adding a new one in place of the English word from the previous page, this book makes learning the language easy and fun. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rafael Lopez covers each page with vibrant, exuberant color, celebrating tradition and community. Back matter includes a glossary of Spanish words and a recipe for arroz con leche\u2014perfect for everyone to make together and enjoy at story time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2012 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Honor. American Library Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This beautiful Pura Belpr\u00e9 Award\u2013winning picture book is a bilingual ride through the joyous history of Children\u2019s Day\/El d\u00eda de los ni\u00f1os. <\/span><\/p>\n

Children\u2019s Day\/Book Day; El d\u00eda de los ni\u00f1os\/El d\u00eda de los libros is observed each year on April 30. Founder Pat Mora\u2019s jubilant celebration of this day features imaginative text and lively illustrations by award-winning illustrator Rafael L\u00f3pez that will turn this bilingual fiesta into a hit for story time! Toon! Toon! <\/span><\/p>\n

The book includes a letter from the author and suggestions for celebrating Children\u2019s Day \/El d\u00eda de los ni\u00f1os, making the book perfect for gifting, family celebrations, and classroom sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2010 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Medal. American Library Association<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Re-illustrated and re-designed, OUR CALIFORNIA (previously CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME!) is a lively tour of award-winning author Pam Mu\u00f1oz Ryan’s home state. Spirited poems celebrate California’s major cities and regions. Backmatter includes state symbols and additional information about each place. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bold paintings by illustrator Rafael L\u00f3pez capture the spirit of the land.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Smear nutty butter, then jelly. Gooey party, my sandwich and me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peanuts, blueberries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and more here is a luscious collection of haiku celebrating foods native to the Americas. Brimming with imagination and fun, these poems capture the tasty essence of foods that have delighted, united, and enriched our lives for centuries. Exuberant illustrations bring to life the delicious spirit of the haiku, making Yum! Mmmm! Que rico! an eye-popping, mouth-watering treat. Open it and dig in!”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2008 Americas Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This bilingual book allows young readers to enter Celia Cruz’s life as she becomes a well-known singer in her homeland of Cuba, then moves to New York City and Miami where she and others create a new type of music called salsa. School Library Journal has named My Name is Celia <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[a]n exuberant picture-book biography . . . a brilliant introduction to a significant woman and her music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2605 2014 Americas Award
\u2605 2006 Pura Belpr\u00e9 Honor. American Library Association<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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