Tag: Perez and Martina

May 13, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Perez and Martina by Pura Belpre, ill. Carlos Sanchez

"Folktales! They don't end the way you expect 'em to . . . if they're authentic." We might have quite a debate over what the oldest #ownvoices picture book published in America is, that is arguably famous to this day, and that also is written by someone who wasn't white and European. My vote goes to today's book circa 1932.