"My books are a combination of my culture growing up, but also my entering a new culture as an immigrant and having to…"

"Everything in my life is an art project...to me it is all art."

"when I am in my studio, I constantly remind myself that steady work will give me the results I want."

"(about Frida Kahlo) I had just come to the United States, a place where I didn’t know how I felt about my identity as…"

"Any story that can weave more than one language into a story is based in real life, because we, la gente, when we com…"

"I didn't have children's books when I was growing up in Mexico, but my relative's fantastic stories of little people …"

"Libraries are a world where you can be safe and comfortable finding in books the things that you like the most, or th…"

"I was working on a graphic novel when Donald Trump was elected president. My heart sunk. I could not believe that the…"

"Animals and the natural world play a huge role in my artwork as I’ve learned so much from them."

"I remember loving Chato’s Kitchen by Gary Soto and Susan Guevara; I couldn’t believe that there was a book in the lib…"