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 Making of Viva Frida: Yuyi Morales’ Photo essay for Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
In 2014, Yuyi contributed a visual essay on the creative process behind her book, Viva Frida to the children's book blog, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Yuyi's creative process behind Viva Frida was a radical from her previous books, which were illustrated...
“Making Viva Frida” – Video
Yuyi made this video to give readers an inside look at the creative process behind Viva Frida! This book represented a dramatic stylistic departure from Yuyi's previous books as it made us of puppetry, studio photography, hand-made jewelry and clothes, and detailed...
“La venadita” – song for Viva Frida
Yuyi wrote and recorded a song, "Venadita", to accompany the release of her book, Viva Frida.
2014 Pura Belpré Award ceremony poster
Yuyi designed the poster for the 2014 Pura Belpré award ceremony using characters from Niño Wrestles the World and the books of the other Pura Belpré Medal and Honor winners.
Interview on NPR’s Latino USA to discuss “Niño Wrestles the World”
Yuyi appeared on NPR's Latino USA program to discuss her book, Niño Wrestles the World, and her introduction to children's books as an adult and recent immigrant to the United States. https://www.npr.org/2014/06/20/324005455/ni-o-wrestles-the-world
Contribution of art for We Need Diverse Book’s Indiegogo campaign
In 2015, Yuyi was asked to contribute a piece of original art that would be part of a poster design that would be sold as part of We Need Diverse Book's Indiegogo campaign. Yuyi's drawing was included on a poster whose proceeds contributed to funding initiatives to...
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