What was it like winning the Caldecott Award?
It was so great. It was really exciting, and it was a shock, because it was my first picture book. It’s quite unusual for that award to be given to a first-time illustrator. Are those real photos in Smoky Night? Yes, those are real photographs, the cereal in one, and the shoes in another. They are real elements that were photographed. Where are you from? My mother is from Puerto Rico, and my father was from the U.S. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but we moved to San Diego when I was fourteen. How does your heritage influence your work? I think that any artist, writer, or creative person will draw from their experiences. They’ll use their background, their heritage, and their culture in their work. But what I try to do in my illustrations for children’s books is make them as appropriate to the manuscript as possible. When I did Going Home, which is about Hispanic families going home to Mexico to show their children where they had come from, I was able to draw on my own experienc
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