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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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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