Donna Barba Higuera

The Last Cuentista

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gale, a Cengage Group
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781420515671
• ISBN-10: 1420515675
• Artikelnr.: 70680442

Autorenporträt

Donna Barba Higuera is an award-winning author who masterfully blends folklore with her lived experiences to create captivating stories for young readers. Growing up in the dust-filled oil fields of Central California, she spent her life weaving tales that sparked her imagination. Now residing in the Pacific Northwest with her family and a lively menagerie of pets, Donna is the acclaimed author of picture books like El Cucuy Is Scared, Too! and The Yellow Handkerchief. Her middle-grade novels have garnered significant recognition: Lupe Wong Won't Dance received the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor and a Pura Belpré Honor, while her second novel, The Last Cuentista, was awarded both the John Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpré Award. The Last Cuentista was also named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Wall Street Journal , and TIME. Her newest book Xolo reimagines the Aztec myth of the origin of man-and man's best friend. The highly anticipated third and final book in The Cuentista series, Firesnake, is slated for release in Spring 2026.