by administrator | Mar 31, 2021 | 2021
Yuyi’s book, Dreamers, was selected to be the 2020 Nashville Reads selection. The Nashville Reads program “was founded in 2012 as a collaboration between the Mayor’s Office, Nashville Public Library, Nashville Public Library Foundation, Parnassus Books,...
by administrator | Mar 19, 2021 | 2021
Horn Book magazine focused its May/June 2021 issue on Latinx literature in honor of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Pura Belpre award. As a six-time Pura Belpre Medal winner, Yuyi was asked to contribute a short essay about her childhood relationship to...
by administrator | Mar 18, 2021 | 2021
Yuyi made this video to introduce her upcoming book, Bright Star, at Penguin Random House’s Fall 2021 Sales Conference. In this video, Yuyi explains why the U.S. – Mexico borderlands were the ideal setting for her story and her wish that readers can see...
by administrator | Mar 18, 2021 | 2021
Yuyi was invited by the organization, Embrace Race, to participate in a project, Drawing Across the Color Line with Kids, that would promote critical conversations around drawing and illustrating people of different races in children’s books. Embrace Race also...
by administrator | Mar 16, 2021 | 2021
Workshops woven from self-care, self-knowledge, self-defense and rituals that call for justice and the joy of women. The work is divided into two parts: virtual workshops that dealt with collective creation, narratives, life stories, and community art and culminated...
by administrator | Mar 16, 2021 | 2021
Yuyi provided artwork from Dreamers to Make Way for Books, a nonprofit organization in Tucson, AZ to createthe Dreamers Book Bus. Make Way for Books uses the bus to go out into the community and provide high quality early literacy programming for families with...
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