Xelena González is the author of the award-winning picture books All Around Us and Where Wonder Grows, as well as Remembering, all illustrated by longtime friend Adriana M. Garcia. She is a poet, storyteller, essayist, and creator of the curative card deck Lotería Remedios. Visit her at Xelena.Space.

Adriana M. Garcia is the Pura Belpré Award-winning illustrator of All Around Us, which was also an American Indian Youth Literature Honor, and Where Wonder Grows. She also illustrated The Turquoise Room by Monica Brown and Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor–winning Remembering by longtime friend and collaborator Xelena González. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her family. Visit her online AdrianaMJGarcia.com.

Rita Elena Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana educator, author, and translator who teaches Spanish an Latinx Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is the translator of Xelena González and Adriana Garcia’s award-winning book Where Wonders Grow (Donde las maravillas crecen).

“This book brings me to tears with every read. Xelena González’s tender, accessible prose combined with Adriana Garcia’s absolutely incredible art shows that death is ultimately a celebration of life and remembering the loved ones we’ve lost can be both simultaneously heartbreaking and cathartic.”

—Celia L., Executive Editor, on Remembering

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (August 6, 2024)
• Length: 40 pages
• ISBN13: 9781665950350
• Ages: 4 - 8

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