Islandborn
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination.
A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration
Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else.
Hers was a school of faraway places.
So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws…
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March 13, 2018Leo Espinosa is a New York Times bestselling illustrator and designer. His picture books include No More Naps by Chris Grabenstein; Islandborn by Junot Diaz, for which he was awarded a Pura Belpre illustrator award; and Goldfish on Vacation by Sally Lloyd-Jones. In addition, he has given multiple lectures and workshops at schools, such as Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute, and has served on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design. He is from Bogotá, Colombia.
Dream for the Land
Laekan Zea Kemp; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
The Creature of Habit Tries His Best
Jennifer E. Smith; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
NO Is All I Know!
Chris Grabenstein; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
El mundo era nuestro
Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Leo Espinosa; translated by Yanitzia Canetti
The World Belonged to Us
Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
The Creature of Habit
Jennifer E. Smith; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Our Subway Baby
Peter Mercurio; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
No More Naps!
Chris Grabenstein; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Goldfish on Vacation
Sally Lloyd-Jones; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Islandborn
Junot Díaz; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Lola
Junot Díaz; Illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Jackrabbit McCabe and the Electric Telegraph
Lucy Margaret Rozier; illustrated by Leo EspinosaJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Diaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review, and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT.
Islandborn
Junot Díaz; illustrated by Leo Espinosa
Lola
Junot Díaz; Illustrated by Leo Espinosa
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
Best African American Fiction
Gerald Early, series editor, and E. Lynn Harris, guest editor
