Alma, Where Is Pajarito?/Alma, ?D?nde Est? Pajarito?

Juana Martinez-Neal is the Peruvian-born daughter and granddaughter of painters. Her debut as an author-illustrator, the Caldecott Honor Book Alma and How She Got Her Name, which was published in Spanish as Alma y c?mo obtuvo su nombre, inspired the first two board books in this bilingual series, Alma, Head to Toe / Alma, de pies a cabeza and Alma and Her Family / Alma y su familia. Juana Martinez-Neal is the creator of the acclaimed Zonia's Rain Forest and the illustrator of La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya, for which she won a Pura Belpr? Illustrator Award, Babymoon by Hayley Barrett, and Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, which won a Robert F. Sibert Medal. She also co-illustrated, with Molly Idle, I Don't Care by Julie Fogliano. Juana Martinez-Neal lives in Connecticut with her family. Visit her online at www.juanamartinezneal.com.