Do you know a little rebel? Do you want to be a rebel, too? A powerful new picture book from Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales, creator of Dreamers and Bright Star.
Little rebels have a way of finding each other. When these three youngsters come together while playing outside, they feel the pull—these are their people.
Little rebels ask questions. They use language to shape the world, and when no words are right, they make up new ones. They imagine, trust their intuition, and aren’t ashamed to change their minds.
Playing together in good times leads to working together through trouble. When the local lagoon dries up and a bird friend is trapped in the dry bed, the little rebels call on ancestors to show them what to do. Nobody gets left behind.
Caldecott Honoree and six-time Pura Belpré Medalist Yuyi Morales, creator of Dreamers, Viva Frida, and Bright Star, draws on Mexican folklore in this much-anticipated new offering. Little Rebels is as bold and spirited as the young trailblazers it chronicles. Find it also in Spanish as Peques rebeldes.
Little Rebels is also available in a Spanish language edition, Peques rebeldes.
¿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
Bright Star
Child, you are awake!
You are alive!
You are a bright star,
Inside our hearts.
Lucero
¡Estás despierto!
¡Estás vivo!
Eres una estrella brillante, dentro
de nuestros corazones
Dreamers
We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers.
Soñadores
Somos resilientes. Somos esperanza.
Somos soñadores.
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!
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Projects
Poster of 2009 Pure Belpré Award-winning books and Señor Calavera
Yuyi contributed this illustration of her character, Señor Calavera, reading the various winners of the 2019 Pura Belpré's Medal and Honor awards for the ALA's 2009 conference.
“Who is Señor Calavera?”
In 2008, Yuyi made this video to give readers more information about Señor Calavera, the beloved and mysterious skeleton from Just a Minute and Just in Case.
Original artwork for LACTAID campaign
In 2006, Yuyi and award-winning illustrator, Kadir Nelson, were invited to contribute original artwork to a LACTAID campaign to promote milk consumption in children.
Interview in SCBWI’s newsletter, The Zephyr
In 2004, Yuyi was featured in The Zephyr, the newsletter for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and was asked about her education as an artist. Yuyi's answer is below, as is an illustration she made later inspired by the contents of the...
Golden Kite Award ceremony acceptance video
In 2008, Yuyi received the Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration for her book, Little Night. Below is a video Yuyi presented during her acceptance speech.
Yuyi’s 2004 Pura Belpre Medal and Honor acceptance speech
Pura Belpré' acceptance SpeechJuly 2004 Hace mucho, mucho tiempo…A long, long time ago Conejo, Rabbit, went to live on the moon. He went there for very good reasons. The most important of them being that Coyote was madly looking for him to eat him up. Oh, how much...
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