The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) A beautiful, empowering story about the impact of literacy in underprivileged communities, based on a real bookmobile program in Te
The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) Outstanding International Books List - PreK-2 (2024)
A beautiful, empowering story about the impact of literacy in underprivileged communities, based on a real bookmobile program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Luis’s favorite day of the week is Monday, the day the bookmobile comes to his neighborhood. In Villa Nueva, sad stories can gather like dark, stormy clouds. But at the bookmobile, Luis hears stories that burst with life, laughter, and color. Maybe today will bring a song or a puppet show! He might even get to pick a book to read on his own. Every new Monday fills Luis and his neighbors with a joy they can’t help but bring back home.
Co-written by the director of JustWorld International’s bookmobile program in Tegucigalpa, Colorful Mondays is an inspiring celebration of the ways books and learning can bring joy to a community. Illustrated in captivating swirls of color, this uplifting book highlights the strength of disadvantaged children and the creativity of those who help them imagine a better future.
Skipping Stones Magazine Honor Award in Multicultural and International Books (2024)
Latin American Studies Program Américas Award Commended Title (2024)
BolognaFiere Group Bologna Children's Book Fair (2024)
Bookstagang Picture Book Guild Best Book in Bookshelf Builders (2023)
Booklist
“A natural companion read for Monica Brown’s Waiting for the Biblioburro (2011).”
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Nelson Rodríguez is a children’s writer, music teacher, and performer, and the director of JustWorld International’s Asociación Compartir mobile library project. Through a chain of serendipitous events, he met children’s bookseller
L.A. Montes and began collaborating with him on children’s stories.
Colorful Mondays is their English-language debut.
Rosana Faría and
Carla Tabora began illustrating projects together in 2020. Carla is a Brazilian visual artist and photographer whose work has been exhibited across the world. Rosana is a Venezuelan professor and illustrator whose
The Black Book of Colors (Groundwood) was a 2008
New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Both Carla and Rosana are based in Barcelona, Spain. Follow their studio Tiliabooks on Instagram @tiliabooks and visit their website at
tiliabooksesp.myportfolio.com.
Lawrence Schimel has written or translated over 200 books, including
Niños, Different, and
9 Kilometers (all Eerdmans). His works have received many awards, including a PEN Translates Award and the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize Honor. Lawrence lives in Madrid, Spain. Follow him on Twitter @lawrenceschimel.
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