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Juana Martinez-Neal, author portrait

Juana Martinez-Neal

Juana Martinez-Neal is the Peruvian-born daughter and granddaughter of painters. Her debut as an author-illustrator, Alma and How She Got Her Name, was awarded a Caldecott Honor, and her follow-up,
Zonia’s Rain Forest, was named an American Library Association Top 10 Sustainability-Themed Children’s Book. Juana has illustrated numerous picture books, including the New York Times bestselling Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi; Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, which won the Robert F. Sibert Medal; and La Princesa and the Pea by Susan M. Elya, for which she won a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award.
A Gift of Dust
Tomatoes for Neela
La Princesa and the Pea
La Madre Goose

Books

A Gift of Dust
Tomatoes for Neela
La Princesa and the Pea
La Madre Goose

Always Anjali

Meet Anjali! She’s the spunky star of this picture book with a timeless message about appreciating what makes us special and honoring our different identities. Anjali and her friends are excited to buy matching personalized license plates for their bikes–but Anjali can’t find a plate with her name. She is often teased about her “different”

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