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Tag: Erika Meza

August 19, 2025 by Betsy Bird

The Chaos, the Cooperation, and the Chatter: It’s a Menudo Sunday Q&A with Artist Erika Meza

In the mood for some menudo? I get to ask Erika Meza about one of her latest, and we touch on everything from gay grandparents to the chaos and buzz of a family weekend.

October 16, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: A Terrible Place for a Nest by Sara Levine, ill. Erika Meza

Hope is hard to write in a book. Hope is particularly hard to write in a picture book. Still, when someone gets it right, there’s nothing else like it. Maybe it’s true. Hope? It really is a thing with feathers.

April 21, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: To the Other Side by Erika Meza

With care and invention, Erika Meza tells a migrant story that is both literal and figurative, realistic and metaphorical, and does so with honesty and more than a bit of cleverness.

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