My Colors, My World / Mis colores, mi mundo

By Maya Gonzalez
Paperback: $11.95

Bilingual English/Spanish. An instant favorite, this beautiful bilingual board book follows Maya as she discovers all the colors in her world.

Description

Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful color in her world. But when the wind blows, desert sand covers everything, and turns her whole neighborhood the color of dust.

With the help of a feathered friend, Maya searches high and low to find the colors in her world. And she does-in the vibrant purple of her Mama’s flowers, the juicy green of a prickly cactus, the hot pink clouds at sunset, and the shiny black of her Papi’s hair.

As they follow Maya’s search for all the colors of the rainbow, little readers will be inspired to look around and ask themselves, where can I find the colors in my world?

Written in English and Spanish, this beautiful bilingual board book will be an instant favorite for beginning readers.

About the Creators

Maya Gonzalez

Maya Gonzalez is an award-winning children’s book artist, author, activist and progressive educator. Their work addresses systemic inequity in relation to race/ethnicity, sexism, and cissexism using children’s books as radical agents of change and healing, both personally and culturally. Gonzalez co-founded Reflection Press, a POC, queer and trans owned independent publishing house that uses holistic, nature-based, and anti-oppression frameworks in their books and materials for kids and grown-ups. They are also the creator of the Gender Wheel, a tool to express the dynamic, infinite and inclusive reality of gender, and provides lectures and workshops to educators, parents and caregivers. Visit them online at mayagonzalez.com.

Awards

  • Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor

    American Library Association (ALA)

  • Américas Award Commended Title

    Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs

  • International Latino Book Award

    Empowering Latino Futures

Reviews

  • "[Gonzalez's] paintings are big and bold, fanciful and exuberant, and should inspire kids to look for the colors in their world, too."

    - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
  • "The intensely colored paintings [feature] some touches of magical realism. . . this book can jump-start the world of imagination."

    - Kirkus Reviews
  • "The exaggerated facial features of both Maya and her feathered friend capture the contentment they find through enjoying the beauty of their world... Recommended for public libraries and bookstores."

    - Críticas
  • "Gonzalez has created kid-friendly, yet sophisticated compositions."

    - Foreword Reviews
  • "[A] powerful portrayal of a Latino child, her family, and her immediate environment, and an engaging way to introduce young children to basic concepts."

    - Multicultural Review

Paperback

  • ISBN 9780892392780
  • Price $11.95
  • Publication Date Jul 16, 2007
  • Trim Size 10 × 8 in
  • Weight 0.25 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 180
  • Board Book

  • ISBN 9780892392346
  • Price $7.99
  • Publication Date Apr 01, 2013
  • Trim Size N/A
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Hardcover

  • ISBN 9780892392216
  • Price $16.95
  • Publication Date Jul 16, 2007
  • Trim Size N/A
  • Weight 0.4375 lbs
  • Word Count 180
  • Interests

  • Imprint Children's Book Press
  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Concepts / Colors
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Science & Nature / General
  • Themes Art, Beginning Concepts, Bilingual, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Colors, Dreams & Aspirations, Environment / Nature, Families, Fiction, Five Senses / Body Parts, Home, Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence, Imagination, Latinx / Latino / Hispanic, Nature / Science, Pride, Realistic Fiction
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 5 - 7
  • Grade Range Grades K - 2
  • Guided Reading I
  • ATOS Book Level 2
  • DRA 16
  • Interest Level Grades PreK - 2
  • Lexile Code AD
  • Lexile Level 460
  • Reading Level Grades 1 - 2
  • SRC 3.2
  • Bebop Reading Emergent
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