Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Sara Palacios

    Sara Palacios was born in Mexico City. She holds degrees in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Digital Graphic Techniques, and is pursuing her MFA in Illustration at the Academy of Art...
  • Genna Panzarella

    Genna Panzarella is an artist and teacher living near San Francisco, where she and her husband raised two sons. When she is not teaching or creating art, you will find...
  • Jane Park

    Jane Park (formerly Bahk) won Lee & Low’s New Voices Award for Juna’s Jar, which was also recognized with the Asian/Pacific American Library Association Award for Literature and as a...
  • Frances Park

    Frances Park and her sister Ginger Park are the co-authors of Where on Earth is My Bagel?, published by Lee & Low Books, and The Have a Good Day Cafe....
  • Ginger Park

    Ginger Park and her sister Frances Park are the co-authors of My Freedom Trip, winner of the IRA Children’s Book Award, and The Royal Bee, a Parents’ Choice Commended Book....
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks (1913-2005) devoted herself to the nonviolent pursuit of human rights, especially young people’s rights, since refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a...
  • John Parra

    John Parra is a graphic artist, an illustrator, and a fine artist. His paintings have been exhibited in many gallery shows around the United States, and much of his work...
  • Ambar Past

    Poet Ambar Past immigrated to Mexico when she was 23. Thirty years ago she made her home in rural Chiapas and learned to speak Tzotzil Mayan. Since moving to Chiapas...
  • Rodney Pate

    Rodney S. Pate has been illustrating books for children for more than twenty years, and his fine art work has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York...
  • Sonia Patel

    Sonia Patel knows teenagers inside and out. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii, she has spent over fifteen years listening to...
  • Kimberly Pauley

    Kimberly Pauley is the author of the award-winning Sucks to Be Me, which was honored on the YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list. The sequel, Still Sucks to Be...
  • Elaine Pedlar

    Elaine Pedlar was born in Queens, New York, the youngest girl of seven children. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1987 and, since then, has been a fashion...
  • Rob Peñas

    Rob Peñas is a second-generation Filipino-American whose parents immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. He grew up in a house filled with books and playing 16-inch softball. Pedro’s...
  • Mona Pennypacker

    Mona Pennypacker was originally trained in visual arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she earned her degree in Fine Arts with a minor in Latin American Art...
  • L. King Perez

    L. King Perez has won many awards for her fiction and poetry. In addition to writing, she accompanies visiting authors to their appearances around Dayton, Ohio, where she and her...
  • L. King Perez

    L. King Perez has won many awards for her fiction and poetry. In addition to writing, she accompanies visiting authors to their appearances around Dayton, Ohio, where she and her...
  • Rene S Perez II

    Rene S. Perez II was born in Kingsville, Texas, and raised in Corpus Christi. He received a BA from the University of Texas and an MFA from Texas State University....
  • Aixa Pérez-Prado author photo. Aixa has short, wavy brown hair, tan skin, red lipstick, dangly earrings, a gold pendant necklace, and black shirt in front of a yellow background.
    Aixa Pérez-Prado

    Aixa Pérez-Prado is an author, an illustrator, and a university professor of linguistic and cultural studies. Originally from Buenos Aires, she crafts stories that explore intersectional identities, the need for...
  • Donna Perrone

    Donna Perrone received her fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has illustrated several books for children, and she especially enjoys working on...