2024 Madrina Mentor
Lulu Delacre
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Preferred Age Category: Picture Book Preferred Genre or Sub-Genres: Fiction or Nonfiction As a mentor I love working on: The flow of the story in words and images in a picture book, the turn of the page, language used. Areas of expertise/strengths as a mentor: Pagination, storyboard, dummy, translanguaging and or the use of Spanish within the manuscript Areas of weakness as a mentor: Social media |
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ABOUT LULU...
Three-time Pura Belpré Award honoree Lulu Delacre has been writing and illustrating children's books since 1980. The New York Times Bestselling artist was born and raised in Puerto Rico to Argentinean parents. Delacre says her Latino heritage and her life experiences inform her work. Her many titles include Arroz con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America, a Horn Book Fanfare Book in print for over 30 years. Her bilingual picture book ¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z! Descubriendo el bosque nublado; Olinguito, from A to Z! Unveiling the Cloud Forest and her story collection Us, in Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos have received multiple starred reviews and awards.
Among her latest works are the art of Turning Pages by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Cool Green: Amazing, Remarkable Trees and Veo, Veo, I See You. Delacre has lectured internationally and served as a juror for the National Book Awards. She has exhibited at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, The Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, and the Zimmerli Art Museum among other venues.
Reading is Fundamental honored her with a Champion of Children’s Literacy Award.
For more visit her at www.luludelacre.com.
Three-time Pura Belpré Award honoree Lulu Delacre has been writing and illustrating children's books since 1980. The New York Times Bestselling artist was born and raised in Puerto Rico to Argentinean parents. Delacre says her Latino heritage and her life experiences inform her work. Her many titles include Arroz con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America, a Horn Book Fanfare Book in print for over 30 years. Her bilingual picture book ¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z! Descubriendo el bosque nublado; Olinguito, from A to Z! Unveiling the Cloud Forest and her story collection Us, in Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos have received multiple starred reviews and awards.
Among her latest works are the art of Turning Pages by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Cool Green: Amazing, Remarkable Trees and Veo, Veo, I See You. Delacre has lectured internationally and served as a juror for the National Book Awards. She has exhibited at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, The Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, and the Zimmerli Art Museum among other venues.
Reading is Fundamental honored her with a Champion of Children’s Literacy Award.
For more visit her at www.luludelacre.com.