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Children's Book Fair and Literacy Festival - Authors
Partial list of authors
Lupe Ruiz-Flores: Author of the bilingual picture books Lupita's Papalote/El papalote de Lupita and The Woodcutter's Gift/El regalo del lenador, which has been nominated for the 2009 Tejas Star Book Award.
Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert: Author of Off to School, The Barber's Cutting Edge, The Shaking Dog and the Parent's Choice Award book The Music in Derrick's Heart.
Lila Guzman: Author of the award-winning Lorenzo Series, including her latest effort, Lorenzo's Revolutionary Quest.
Jennifer Kindert: Illustrator of children's books such as Hurry Up by Bernette Ford, Mommy's Bed by Sonia Black, and The Christmas Puppy by Teddy Slater.
David Rice: Winner of the American Library Association "Best Books for Young Readers" Award and nominated for the "Pura Belpre Award" in 2001 for his book Crazy Loco.
Willy Welch: Songwriter, author and storyteller, best known for his song and picture book, Playing Right Field.
Hector Cantú: Co-creator of Baldo, the first nationally-syndicated bilingual comic strip about a Latino family.
Tony Medina: Author of DeShawn Days and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, which was named the Best Book of 2002 by The Washington Post's Book World.
Christine Granados: Her collection of short stories, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2006.
Vaunda Nelson: Her first book, Always Gramma, was selected by the Children's Book Council as a 1988 Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. Since then she has won the Georgia Children's Book Award (Mayfield Crossing), 1999 Parents Choice Gold Award (Beyond Mayfield), and a Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustration in 2004 for Almost to Freedom.