Child, you are awake!
You are alive!
You are a bright star,
Inside our hearts.
Told with a combination of powerful, spare language and sumptuous and complex imagery that is typical of Yuyi Morales’s work, this is the story of a fawn making her way through a border landscape teaming with flora and fauna native to the region. A gentle but empowering voice encourages her to face her fears when she comes across an obstacle in the form of an insurmountable barrier.
Yuyi Morales’ first book since her New York Times bestseller Dreamers is a book for very young children looking for their place in a world full of uncertainty. It is a book with resonance for all children, especially those whose safety is threatened due to the immigration crisis in the US.
Bright Star is also available in a Spanish language edition, Lucero.
¿Who is?
Yuyi Morales
Yuyi Morales was born in Xalapa, Mexico on November 7, 1968. The first years of Yuyi’s life were marked by both scarcity and creativity. Yuyi and her two sisters did not have the same clothes or receive the same presents as their schoolmates. Instead, their mother sewed Yuyi and her sisters’ clothes, bedsheets, curtains, and lampshades. When the family couldn’t afford the gifts the girls wanted for their birthdays, Yuyi’s mother would make everything from the cakes to the invitations to their dresses to their shoes. In a sense, her mother’s resourcefulness was Yuyi’s first introduction to art.
Other Books
Dreamers
We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers.
Viva Frida
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2015 Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award
Niño Wrestles the World
Señoras y señores, put your hands together for the fantastic, spectacular, one of a kind . . .Niño!
My Blog
Projects
In conversation: Yuyi Morales and Neal Porter
In anticipation of the release of Yuyi's book, Dreamers, Publisher's Weekly printed a conversation between Yuyi and her editor, Neal Porter, on the book's origins and her creative process....
Presenting Bright Star at PRH 2021 Fall Sales Conference
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 the beauty and...
Global Read Aloud 2019
In celebration of reading books, Yuyi filmed videos for 2019's Global Read Aloud where she read aloud and talked about five of her books.Global Read Aloud Just A Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting BookGlobal Read Aloud Viva FridaGlobal Read Aloud Little NightGlobal...
Drawing Across the Color Line with Kids
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 invited...
“RUDAS Unraveled” – Appearance on the “The Yarn” podcast
Yuyi appeared on "The Yarn", a podcast about children's books and their creators, to talk about the creative process behind her book, Rudas: Niño's Horrendous Hermanitas. https://open.spotify.com/episode/10rVOnyEEGFKvlLkBkhoV6?si=aQVf1l3KSx2P2iPcQsH49g
“Read for more than just a minute” – Poster for libraries to promote reading
Yuyi designed this poster, using art from her book, Just a Minute, to promote reading at the request of her publisher, Chronicle Books. This poster was given to libraries across the nation.
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