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Festival Nacional del Libro (3), Washington D.C. Escritores de origen latino: Meg Medina, Por Javier J. Jaspe
En Pocas Palabras. Javier J. Jaspe
Washington D.C.
“The 2023 National Book Festival was held in the
nation’s capital at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday,
August 12, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Several programs were livestreamed, and video
of all talks can be viewed online shortly after the Festival’s conclusion. Mark your
calendars now for next year’s National Book Festival, scheduled for Aug. 24,
2024.”
EN: https://www.loc.gov/events/2023-national-book-festival/about-this-event/
Una lista completa de los autores que participaron en
el Festival Nacional del Libro de 2023
(FNL2023) puede verse EN: https://www.loc.gov/events/2023-national-book-festival/authors/
La serie que continuamos hoy se refiere a escritores de origen
latino que participaron en el FNL2023. Su objeto no consiste en realizar un
análisis de su obra, sino el de publicar material encontrado en Internet
relacionado con la misma y sus autores, para lo cual nos servirá de guía el
propio Website del FNL2023 en inglés: www.loc.gov/bookfest. Los
textos de Internet se transcribirán en itálicas, en español o inglés, según sea
el caso, con indicación de su fuente. Esta tercera entrega se refiere a la
autora Meg Medina. Veamos:
Meg Medina
Meg Medina, the 2023-2024
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is a Cuban American author
who writes for readers of all ages. Her middle grade novel “Merci Suárez
Changes Gears” received a Newbery Medal and was a New York Times Book Review
Notable Children’s Book of the Year, among many other distinctions. Her young
adult novel “Burn Baby Burn” earned numerous distinctions, including being
longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize.
Medina received a Pura Belpré Author Award and a Cybils Award for her young
adult novel “Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your
Ass External,” and its
graphic novel adaptation, illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas, will be featured
at the 2023 National Book Festival.
EN: https://www.loc.gov/events/2023-national-book-festival/authors/item/n2008000508/meg-medina/
Conferencia/Entrevista
en el FNL 2023
2023 National Book
Festival: Drawing Yaqui Delgado with Meg Medina & Mel Valentine Vargas
Video EN: https://www.loc.gov/events/2023-national-book-festival/schedule/item/webcast-10985/
Websites
de la autora
Biografías
Conoce a
Meg:
“Meg Medina es
la Embajadora Nacional de
Literatura Juvenil de 2023-2024.
La Embajadora Nacional
de Literatura Juvenil es nombrada por la Bibliotecaria del Congreso bajo la
iniciativa de la Biblioteca del Congreso en asociación con la
organización Every
Child a Reader.
Durante su mandato de
dos años, Meg ayudará a crear conciencia sobre la importancia de la literatura
infantil para fomentar el alfabetismo permanente, así como aportar a la
educación y el desarrollo y bienestar de las vidas de los jóvenes. Meg es la
primera Embajadora Nacional de herencia latina en la afamada historia del
programa.
Comunicado
de prensa del anuncio
Lee sobre la historia del programa de
Embajadores:
Lee sobre “¡Cuéntame! Hablemos de libros”, la plataforma de
Meg como Embajadora Nacional.
Para consultas de prensa o de fuentes mediáticas sobre el programa
de Embajadores: Contactar a Leah Knobel, Library of Congress,
lknobel@loc.gov y Phoebe Kosman, Candlewick Press, Phoebe.Kosman@candlewick.com.”
EN: https://megmedina.com/naypl-esp/
“BIOGRAFÍA BREVE:
Meg Medina es
actualmente la Embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil. Es la autora de Merci Suárez Changes Gears,
libro ganador de la Medalla John Newbery y finalista en 2018 para el Premio
Kirkus, que fue seguido por dos aclamados libros sobre la familia Suárez: Merci Suárez Can’t Dance y Merci Suárez Plays It Cool. Sus novelas para
adolescentes incluyen Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, libro
ganador en 2014 del Premio de Autor Pura Belpré, el cual será publicado en 2023
como novela gráfica, ilustrado por Mel Valentine Vargas; Burn Baby Burn, preseleccionada para el Premio Nacional del Libro; y The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. También es autora de
los libros infantiles Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, ilustratado por
Sonia Sánchez, seleccionado para el Jumpstart Read for the Record en
2020; Mango, Abuela, and Me, ilustrado por Angela
Dominguez, ganador del Premio de Autor Pura Belpré; y Tía Isa Wants a Car, ilustrado por Claudio Muñoz, libro ganador del
Premio Ezra Jack Keats para Nuevos Escritores; y de la biografía para lectores
juveniles She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor. Meg Medina es hija
de inmigrantes cubanos, creció Queens, Nueva York, y hoy vive en Richmond,
Virginia.
BIOGRAFÍA:
Meg Medina es
actualmente la Embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil. Es una autora
cubanoamericana que escribe para lectores de todas las edades. Su novela para
grados intermedios Merci Suárez Changes Gears recibió la
Medalla Newbery y, entre muchas otras distinciones, fue seleccionada por el New
York Times Book Review como Notable Libro para Niños del Año. Su
continuación, Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, obtuvo reseñas de
cinco estrellas, mientras que Merci Suárez Plays It Cool fue nombrado “el
mejor libro de 2022” por las revistas PARENTS, Kirkus, y The Horn Book.
Su libro infantil más
reciente, Evelyn del Rey is Moving Away, fue galardonado con
el Premio Charlotte Zolotow 2021–2022 y fue seleccionado para el Jumpstart Read
for the Record 2020, llegando a 2.24 millones de lectores. En 2016 recibió el
Premio de Autor Pura Belpré por su libro infantil Mango, Abuela, and Me.
Entre numerosas distinciones, su novela para adolescentes Burn Baby Burn fue
preseleccionada en 2016 para el Premio Nacional del Libro, y fue candidata para
el Premio Kirkus. Medina también fue galardonada con el Premio de Autor Pura
Belpré en 2014 y con el Premio Cybils en 2013 por su novela para
adolescentes Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, la cual será
publicada en 2023 como novela gráfica, ilustrada por Mel Valentine Vargas. En
2012, Meg Medina también recibió el Premio Ezra Jack Keats para Nuevos
Escritores por su libro infantil Tía Isa Wants a Car.
La obra de Meg Medina
analiza, desde la perspectiva de la gente joven, cómo las culturas se
entrelazan, y ofrece a los lectores historias que reflejan lo particular de la
cultura latina, así como cualidades que son universales. Sus protagonistas
favoritas son chicas de personalidad fuerte. En marzo de 2014, Meg fue
reconocida por CNN entre las 10 Mujeres Visionarias de América. Y en noviembre
de 2014, fue nombrada entre los Diez Autores de Historias Latinas Más
Destacados.
Cuando no está
escribiendo, Meg Medina trabaja en proyectos comunitarios en beneficio de las
niñas, la juventud latina y la alfabetización. Vive con su familia en Richmond,
Virginia.”
EN: https://megmedina.com/carpeta-de-prensa/
Reportajes/Entrevistas
Recursos
sobre Meg Medina en la Biblioteca del Congreso
Meg Medina es una autora cubanoamericana que escribe
para lectores de todas las edades. Su novela juvenil Merci Suárez se pone las
pilas recibió la Medalla Newbery, fue seleccionada como Libro Infantil
Notable por el New York Times Book Review, y recibió muchos otras distinciones.
La segunda parte, Merci Suárez no sabe bailar, recibió reseñas
estelares, y Merci Suárez actúa genial fue desccrita por
Kirkus como “un fabuloso final de una trilogía memorable.”
Su libro infantil más reciente, Evelyn Del
Rey se muda, el cual ha alcanzado a aldededor de 2.3 millones de
lectores, fue galardonado con el Premio Charlotte Zolotow de 2021-2022 y
seleccionado para el Registro de Lecturas Jumpstart en 2020. Medina recibió el
Premio de Autor Pura Belpré en el 2016 por su libro ilustrado Mango, Abuela
y yo. Entre sus otras numerosas distinciones, su novela
adolescente Burn Baby Burn fue preseleccionada para el Premio
Nacional del Libro y el Premio Kirkus en el 2016. Fue galardonada también con
el Premio de Autor Pura Belpré en 2014 y el Premio Cybils en 2013 por su novela
adolescente Yaqui Delgado quiere darte una paliza, la cual será
publicada en 2023 como una novela gráfica ilustrada por Mel Valentine Vargas.
Adicionalmente, Meg Medina recibió el Premio Ezra Jack Keats para Nuevos
Escritores por su libro infantil Tía Isa quiere un carro.
La obra de Meg Medina se enfoca, desde la
perspectiva de la gente joven, en las formas en que la cultura se entrelaza con
la identidad. Son obras narrativas que reflejan lo particular pero también lo
universal de una cultura y sus protagonistas tienden a ser niñas y mujeres
adolescentes de personalidad fuerte y gran determinación.
Cuando no está escribiendo, Meg Medina trabaja en proyectos
comunitarios enfocados en las niñas, la juventud latina y la alfabetización.
Vive con su familia en Richmond, Virginia.
EN: https://guides.loc.gov/meg-medina-esp/sobre
Meg Medina, escritora cubanoestadounidense, es la primera latina nombrada embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil en EE.UU.
EN: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2023/01/18/meg-medina-escritora-cubanoestadounidense-embajadora-orix/
22:56 ET(02:56 GMT) 18 Enero, 2023
“(CNN Español) –– La Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos
nombró a la escritora cubanoestadounidense Meg Medina como la octava embajadora
Nacional de Literatura Juvenil. Esta es la primera vez que una latina ocupa
este cargo, cuyo objetivo es promover la importancia de la literatura y lectura
entre los niños y adolescentes.
"Lo que más
deseo es que la lectura y el amor por contar historias forme parte del día a
día de más y más jóvenes, y que estas actividades transciendan el entorno
escolar y las bibliotecas. Sueño con que el mundo de los libros nos una,
expanda nuestros horizontes y nos ayude a entendernos mejor”, dijo Medina tras
su nombramiento, de acuerdo a un comunicado que difundió la Biblioteca del
Congreso…..
Medina es hija de
inmigrantes cubanos y creció en Nueva York, en el seno de una familia bilingüe.
Su obra refleja su crianza y muchos de los protagonistas de sus libros son
latinos. Algunos de ellos son “Merci Suárez se pone las pilas”, “Tía Isa quiere
un carro”, “Evelyn del Rey se muda”, y “Ella persistió: Sonia Sotomayor”, este
último basado en la historia de la primera jueza latina de la Corte Suprema de
Estados Unidos.
Ahora, durante su
período como embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil, Medina usará la
plataforma “¡Cuéntame!: Hablemos de libros” para reunir a lectores a través de
sus experiencias. Según la Biblioteca del Congreso, "¡Cuéntame!"
conecta familias, aulas escolares, bibliotecas y comunidades por medio del
mundo de la lectura y de aquellas obras que reflejan las experiencias y
realidades de los lectores.
La ceremonia de
posesión de Medina se realizará el 24 de enero en la Biblioteca del Congreso.”
Meg Medina
Telling the Story of You
Interview by Rebecca Sutton
EN: EN: https://www.arts.gov/stories/magazine/2014/2/story-our-culture-artists-place-community/meg-medina
Meg Medina is on a
mission. The author of four books, including Milagros: Girl from Away and Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, she casts
strong Latina girls as her protagonists, an unusual occurrence in children’s
literature. According to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, less than
eight percent of children’s books published in 2013 were about people of color,
a statistic Medina is adamant about changing—she even helped mastermind the
Twitter campaign #WeNeedDiverseBooks, which went viral last spring. She hopes
her own realistic portrayals of Latino culture will rebuke negative
stereotypes, while generating pride amongst the Latino community. Medina,
currently in her fourth season of “Girls of Summer,” a blog series that
highlights books that feature (and hopefully foster) strong girls, recently
spoke with us about how she hopes her work affects the female community, the
Latino community, and the community of children as a whole.
Putting a Different
Lens on Community
When I think of community, I think of it on multiple levels.
There’s a family community—the child and his family—the school community, the
city that you live in. But it’s all interconnected. And in my case, I think of
how stories of universal experiences connect us all.
I think story is a human impulse. Just think of cave paintings.
Capturing what our experience has been is a basic way that we move through the
world. What’s amazing to me is the similarities of experiences, especially when
we’re talking about writing for children: the universal experiences of growing
up, of wanting friends, of wanting connection with other people, of struggling
to understand yourself, of pulling away from your family, of falling in love,
feeling isolated and broken. All of those significant experiences of growing up
are universal, whether you’re an African-American child, an Asian- American
child, a Latino child, an Anglo child. We’re all struggling with those same
desires and needs.
What is beautiful to me is what happens when we put a slightly
different lens over the experience. Then we’re able to really appreciate the
nuances of how we’re different, but still acknowledging that we have
experiences that bind us…. It’s important that we know each other’s story, and
become comfortable with each other’s lens, and with each other, period…..
The Importance of
Reading Your Story
I spent a lot of time thinking that my being Hispanic was
something I had to get past in order to be successful. Sure, I was Cuban. I
spoke Spanish. But it mattered more that I could shine academically. My roots
were something that I kept completely separate from my idea of what success was
going to be. And that’s sad. Because what I had found in life is that my
culture and my roots were so entwined with my success.
I want to bring to kids this notion that who they are, the
language of their families, whoever their families were in their home country,
whether humble people, big-shot people—everybody’s story has value. I don’t
want anybody to feel like they have to be embarrassed by their cultural
heritage or it’s something that they have to get past in order to make it in
this country.
They’re exactly enough. Who they are is exactly enough. And I
think our jobs, as children’s book authors, as teachers, as librarians, is to
help kids understand that early. That they have everything they need.
A lot of Latino kids are English dominant, so I want them to
experience magical realism, which is such a part of Latino fiction, in their
dominant language, and to be able to celebrate it as something that has its
roots in our literature. I want them to feel that comfort and that pride as
they’re sitting in their classroom, and 23 other kids are reading a book where
the characters say words that they hear in their house and are eating things
that they eat in their house.
It’s a subtle thing, but it’s also affirming that you exist,
that your family has value and that the story of you, the story of your family,
matters enough and is deserving of being captured in a story. When we have an
absence of that, the implied message is that you don’t matter as much as the
stories that are being captured….
Creating a Community
of Strong Girls
I love to write for girls. I’m unabashedly feminist. I believe
that we need to celebrate girls and empower girls and encourage them at every
turn to be in charge of themselves, in charge of their bodies, their choices,
their careers, their future. There’s so much to conspire against that. Just
open any magazine. It’s crushing. So I write to help girls feel strong. I
celebrate girls as they are.
I try to give them stories that give them a chance to reflect on
themselves and things happening in their own life. I try to give them women in
these books—not only the girls who are their age, but also the women who are
adults—[who are] women as they are: resourceful, powerful, loving, strong.
Growing up into a healthy strong kid who’s resilient is really
hard. I laugh when I hear people say to young people, “This is the best time of
your life. You should be so happy. It only gets worse from here.” I’m like, “Do
you remember? Do you have any idea the effort that goes into facing all of
those problems for the first time? And getting your skills up to face them?”
It’s tough. So I picture myself in a dark cave with a candle and young people
behind me, and I’m holding up the light, [saying,] “You’re going to make it
through this tunnel. You’re going to get through.”
The “So What” of It
All
For me, the basic thing is the “so what” of it all. You can’t
move through being an artist or being a writer just entertaining yourself—“I
wrote this story for me, and it only matters to me.”
I have three children. You work like a dog when you’re a parent
to raise them, and you put your best self in there. You’re working on creating
somebody who’s going to be about light and good and positive things. And then
you send them out into the world with all your hope. Creating any art form is
like that too, but writing books for children especially. It’s your story only
while you’re working on it on your computer. Then it becomes a book, and you
send it out and it becomes everybody’s story. You send it out with hope that
it’s going to do good and it’s going to be about light. So you want it to have
meaning. You have to ask yourself, “How will this matter? How is this going to
help something out there?”
Book Review: Merci Suárez Can’t Dance by Meg Medina
EN: EN: https://latinosinkidlit.com/2022/05/09/book-review-merci-suarez-cant-dance-by-meg-medina/
Reviewed by
Cris Rhodes
BOOK
DESCRIPTION: Seventh grade is going to be a real trial
for Merci Suárez. For science she’s got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis, who expects her
to be as smart as her brother, Roli. She’s been assigned to co-manage the tiny
school store with Wilson Bellevue, a boy she barely knows, but whom she might
actually like. And she’s tangling again with classmate Edna Santos, who is
bossier and more obnoxious than ever now that she is in charge of the annual
Heart Ball.
One thing is for sure, though: Merci Suárez can’t dance—not at
the Heart Ball or anywhere else. Dancing makes her almost as queasy as love
does, especially now that Tía Inés, her merengue-teaching aunt, has a new man
in her life. Unfortunately, Merci can’t seem to avoid love or dance for very
long. She used to talk about everything with her grandfather, Lolo, but with
his Alzheimer’s getting worse each day, whom can she trust to help her make
sense of all the new things happening in her life? The Suárez family is back in
a touching, funny story about growing up and discovering love’s many forms,
including how we learn to love and believe in ourselves.
MY TWO CENTS: In this follow-up to her Newbery Award-winning Merci Suárez Changes Gears, Meg Medina once more dives back into Merci’s
world, this time exploring her confusion and awkwardness of a first crush.
Whereas the first book follows Merci as she learns that her beloved
grandfather, Lolo, has Alzheimer’s, this book has a far lighter primary plot.
Certainly Lolo’s diagnosis still impacts Merci, especially because Lolo’s
capabilities have dwindled and Merci now must fulfill a caretaking role for
him; yet, the book doesn’t dwell so much on Lolo as it does Merci herself. This
shift is important. In the first book, Merci feels betrayal that the adults in
her life withheld information from her. In Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, Merci is suddenly the one who must decide how much
to tell others or what to protect them from.
Now in the 7th grade, Merci is on the cusp of teenagerhood and
all of the mixed-up feelings that go with it. While Merci’s group of friends
are all seemingly growing up around her, Merci still enjoys the things of her
childhood—riding her bike, playing soccer with her dad and his workmates, and
visiting with her grandparents. Even when she is given the responsibility of
running her school’s mini-store alongside her new friend Wilson, she clings to
her stable childhood pleasures. Nevertheless, Merci has to grow up. Throughout
the book, Merci is confronted with a number of events that require her to adopt
a more mature mentality and leave her childhood thinking behind. While I won’t
go into detail about these events, lest I give any spoilers, the new realities
that Merci must navigate feel real and relatable, if maybe a little jumbled
because of the amount of subplots. Having read the book over the course of
several days, I did find myself losing track sometimes, but earlier subplots
that seem unrelated at the time do factor into the ultimate climax of the book.
Fans of Merci Suárez Changes Gears will enjoy the continuation of her story in Merci Suárez Can’t Dance. Merci remains the
compelling, loveable, and flawed character from the first book and the realism
with which Medina brings Merci to life is astounding. Like all children, Merci
makes mistakes and has to account for them. But she also triumphs, and we
celebrate her victories.
Like Medina’s other
books, Merci Suárez Can’t Dance is an engaging read. I will say, I did enjoy the first book
better—possibly because Merci was still new to me and her struggle to accept
her grandfather’s diagnosis was a more heart-tugging story. It wasn’t that I
didn’t enjoy this book—I certainly did! —it just did not match the emotional
appeal of the first in the series. However, I don’t necessarily think that’s
something that should keep readers away from continuing on Merci’s journey.
This book felt like a transition, a shift for Merci and for us as
readers—especially so, given that this is the second book in a trilogy. Merci Suárez Plays It Cool, the final book in the series, is slated for
release in September 2022.
All in all, Merci’s
growth, as explored in Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, is impactful and,
for readers equally going through the transition from childhood to adolescence
(or any change in life), will resonate. Meg Medina has a particular talent for
rendering real life emotions and experiences in fiction and I will always pick
up any new book of hers. Merci’s voice is one that is much needed for young
readers, especially those experiencing tumultuous times.
.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (from her website): Meg Medina is a Newbery award-winning and New York Times best-selling
author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult
fiction. Her works have been called “heartbreaking,” “lyrical” and “must haves
for every collection.” Her titles include:
- She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor, with Chelsea Clinton;
- Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, one of the 50 most anticipated novels
of 2021, according to Kirkus;
- Evelyn del Rey is Moving Away / Evelyn del Rey se muda, 2020 Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Selection, winner of
the Margaret Wise Brown Prize in Children’s Literature, and 2021 Crystal
Kite Award;
- Merci Suárez Changes Gears, 2019 John Newbery Medal winner, and
2019 Charlotte Huck Honor Book;
- Burn Baby Burn, long-listed for the 2016 National Book
Award, short-listed for the Kirkus Prize, and a finalist for
the Los Angeles Times Book Prize;
- Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author
Award;
- The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, a 2012 Bank Street College Best
Children’s Book of the Year;
- Mango, Abuela, and Me, a 2016 Pura Belpré Author Honor
Book; and
- Tía Isa Wants a Car, winner of the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New
Writers Award.
When she’s not writing, Meg serves on the Advisory Committee for
We Need Diverse Books, the grassroots organization working to produce and
promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. She
also works on community projects that support girls, Latinx youth, and/or
literacy. She is a board member of the Library of Congress Literacy
Awards, a faculty member of Hamline University’s Masters of Fine Arts in
Children’s Literature. Meg lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.
Children’s Books
New Novels From Three of Today’s Most Beloved
Children’s Authors
By Melissa
Walker
EN: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/books/review/kate-dicamillo-meg-medina-jacqueline-woodson.html
(Fragments)
“Middle-grade readers live in a wonderful-awful, in-between
time that holds both the last moments when toys seem magical and the first
breathless discoveries of what deodorant and mascara wands are meant to do. By
now, they know about the world’s harshness, but they may not be quite ready to
face it full on. These three powerful authors push the edge of comfort in their
latest works — presenting the loveliness that the best childhood moments hold
alongside the realities of inequity, profound loss and deep neglect. Readers
(and their parents) will be all the better for it…..
In Meg Medina’s MERCI SUÁREZ CHANGES GEARS (Candlewick, 368 pp., $16.99; ages
9 to 12), Merci’s harbor is an extended family living in Las Casitas,
which is what she calls their three pink, flattop houses that sit side by side.
Medina quickly establishes their warm, congenial home life as the center of
Merci’s universe…..
But sixth grade throws the best of
us off balance, and when Merci — who attends a private school on scholarship —
is assigned to be the buddy of a cute new boy in town, jealousy swirls in her
friend group. Meanwhile, there are troubles at home as the family’s adored
grandfather, Lolo, starts to forget things and act erratically.
The 11-year-old’s worldview shifts
uncomfortably — her friends have fancy bikes and swimming pools and can “do
dumb stuff” at school, but she always has to prove herself. As her Papi tells her
after she gets caught breaking a rule, “The value you add to the school has to
come from you, because it’s not coming from our wallets.”
It’s clear that Merci loves her
family. But she also chafes at family responsibilities, especially the
expectation that she’ll watch her little cousins more now that Lolo is less
reliable. “Find someone else … I’m not your servant!” she shouts at her aunt after
a stressful day. Caught between the world of family and peers, the comfort of
Las Casitas and the enticing new call of independence, Merci Suárez is a
delightful heroine who, despite real challenges, never wavers in her strong
sense of self or her fierce love for la familia. Readers will appreciate
watching her navigate how to hold on to what matters when it feels like
everything is changing….”
También
puede verse:
https://guides.loc.gov/meg-medina-esp/recursos-adicionales
https://www.colorincolorado.org/es/videos/conozca-al-autor/meg-medina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwjUqnEMhpY&list=PLoU659hwTdDae37z5gSBgFJyQxWluMSSV
https://megmedina.com/books-by-meg/
Articles
SCBWI Interview with Meg
Medina, National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature
10 Inspiring Latina Writers Who
Paved the Way in Publishing (HipLatina)
NPR’s Morning Edition: Meg Medina is the first
Latinx ambassador for young people’s literature
Parents: Here’s What Book
Banning Means for Latinx Communities
HipLatina: How Censorship & Book Banning Affect the Latinx
Community in 2022
Grow Your Family’s Reader’s
Life: An Intergenerational Author Study Featuring Meg Medina
The Horn Book: 2019 Newbery Medal
Acceptance in The Horn Book
With RJ Palacio in The New York Times, discussing diversity in children’s lit.
Podcasts
Let Kids Read Freely: Meg
Medina with Maria Hinojosa on Latino USA
Latino Book Review Presents Meg
Medina
The Children’s Book Podcast
with Matthew C. Winner
LiteratiCast with Jennifer
Laughran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qprF0mnX-4g
Best Strategies to Inspire Young Readers: an interview with
Meg Medina and USAID Senior
Deputy Assistant Administrator Sheryl Stumbras, September 7, 2023