Little Brother Leads the Way

Isabel Quintero is an award-winning writer and the daughter of Mexican immigrants from Southern California’s Inland Empire. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, her first YA novel, was the recipient of multiple awards, including the William C. Morris YA Debut Award. She is also the author of chapter books and a nonfiction YA graphic biography, Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide, which was awarded the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. My Papi Has a Motorcycle earned the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, and many other recognitions.Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX. His author-illustrator debut, Sundust, won a Caldecott Honor and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award. He illustrated the New York Times bestselling Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel and his other award-winning books My Papi Has a Motorcycle and Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in Northwest Arkansas or he is in a creek somewhere throwing rocks with his son.

Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX, the Sun City. Sundust, his author-illustrator debut, is a love poem to desert culture and people. Zeke received the Ezra Jack Keats and the Pura Belpré Illustration Honors for My Papi Has a Motorcycle and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for his illustrations in Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He also illustrated the New York Times bestseller Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in NW Arkansas.