Podcast – Yuyi Morales
In this episode of the Picture Book Summit podcast, we bring you Yuyi Morales. Yuyi is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times bestseller Dreamers andNiño Wrestles the World. She is a six-time winner of the Pura Belpre Medal for an outstanding work of literature for children that best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience. In 2015, she received the Caldecott Honor for her book Viva Frida. Other honors include the Americas Award, the Golden Kite Medal, the Christopher Award, the Jane Adams Award, and the Tomas Rivera Award.
In her Picture Book Summit keynote, Yuyi shared how there’s an idea bank inside all of us and how we can use it to tell the stories only we can tell.
Get ready to be inspired!
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How do we translate our life experience into picture books that enable children to practice their own life skills? Grab this Picture Book Summit Superstar Speaker and Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales as she shows what happens when we mine our lives for stories and how we transform ourselves in the process.
The full Bookeando: How Creating Books Helps Us Process Our Life’s Learning presentation with Yuyi Morales includes a 60-minute video and transcript full of inspiration to mine your life for ideas and stories that only you can tell. It’s a very special recording filled with Yuyi’s unique style and original illustrations created just for Picture Book Summit.
Get Bookeando: How Creating Books Helps Us Process Our Life’s Learning on the Picture Book Summit Teachable site:
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