A new book by Yuyi Morales
AVAILABLE Sep, 2025

Little Rebels

Publicado por Neal Porter Books 

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

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Nuestra voz en los muros

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Mural in Los Sauces Market

Mural in Los Sauces Market

Yuyi negotiated with the municipal government of her hometown, Xalapa, Veracruz, to get the necessary permissions for a local artist to paint a four wall mural at one of the local mercados. Yuyi also provided financing for the artist to purchase materials to paint...

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Dreamers Book Bus

Dreamers Book Bus

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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