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
The Norman Rockwell Museum’s Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys
The Norman Rockwell Museum invited to Yuyi to contribute original artwork for its exhibit, Finding Home: Four Artists' Journeys. Art from Dreamers was presented in this exhibition alongside work from artists Frances Jetter, David Macaulay, and James McMullan. The art...
Illustration for “Hear My Voice / Escucha Mi Voz”
Yuyi was one of 17 Latinx artists who contributed an illustration for Hear My Voice, a picture book that tells the stories of 61 children, ages 5 to 17, who have been separated from their families at the U.S. - Mexico border. Hear My Voice is told through gut...
Official poster for 2020 Miami Book Fair
Yuyi was invited by the organizers of the Miami Book Fair to design the festival's official poster for 2020.
A Thank-You to Librarians Who Make Everyone Feel Welcome – animated video made by The Science of Happiness
In 2018, Yuyi appeared on the podcast, The Science of Happiness, to discuss and read the gratitude letter she wrote to Nancy, a librarian in San Francisco who changed Yuyi's life. The Science of Happiness later made an animated video, A Thank-You to Librarians Who...
Children’s Book Week 100th anniversary poster
Yuyi was asked by the organizers of the charity organization, Every Child a Reader, to create the offical poster for 100th anniversary of Children's Book Week.
Yuyi’s acceptance speech for the 2019 Pura Belpré Medal award for Illustration
In 2019, Yuyi won her sixth Pura Belpre Medal, this time for her illustrations in Dreamers / Soñadores. Yuyi gave the following acceptance speech at the American Library Association's 2019 Annual Conference.2019 Pura Belpré Aceptance Speech. ALA Washington DC....
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