"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 …"

"(What advice would you give to young writers?) We all have our very own ways to tell stories, and you will find yours…"

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

"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…"