Julia Durango, illus. by Fabricio VandenBroeck. Charlesbridge, $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-57091-723-3
In understated verse, a girl named Marisol explores the role that music plays in her Latino community, introducing the people who visit her father's music store ("Papi says you can/ read people's souls/ by the music/ they listen to"). Grainy...
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Julia Durango and Katie Belle Trupiano, illus. by Robert Goldstrom. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8702-4
First-timer Goldstrom's richly imagined paintings of flight among the stars enhance this fanciful lullaby from Durango (Go-Go-Gorillas) and newcomer Trupiano. "Dream away, dream away, sleepyhead, love./ Set sail for the ocean of stars up above,"...
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Julia Durango, Author, Elisa Kleven, Illustrator , illus. by Elisa Kleven. S&S $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-86252-6
D
urango (Dream Hop
) found inspiration in the African-American spiritual “All Night, All Day” to craft this picture book adaptation that emphasizes the comforting thought of heavenly angels watching over those of us on Earth. Rhyming...
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Julia Durango, Author, Eleanor Taylor, Illustrator , illus. by Eleanor Taylor. S&S $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-86456-8
Durango's (Dream Hop
) tale stars a cast of childlike chimps who are more interested in dancing the night away than catching their zzz's. "Deep in the forest in the dim moonlight,/ ten little chimps sneak out for the night." They...
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Julia Durango and Tyler Terrones. HarperTeen, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-231403-1
In this lighthearted romance, Zeus’s mother moves the family from Chicago to middle-of-nowhere Illinois to open a café.
Friendless and aimless, Zeus has little to do beyond helping his mother with lunch deliveries—with his WWII-obsessed younger...
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