I blogged about guayaba con queso, Hispanic Heritage Month, and democratic values over at the Nerdy Book Club. Check out my post here.

Beverly Slapin has written an insightful review of Martí’s Song for Freedom on the De Colores blog.Please take a look!

Chantel Acevedo has written a lovely review of Martí’s Song for Freedom over at Latinx in Kidlit. Please take a look!  

Brooklyn Book Festival 2017 and my first-ever book festival is in the books! Highlights included meeting fellow Full Circle Literary author Celia C. Pérez (First Rule of Punk, Viking 2017) and her wonderful editor Joanna Cárdenas, pictured at top.

School Library Journal’s first-ever Day of Dialog to coincide with the Brooklyn Book Festival was a terrific success. I met some of my long-time favorite authors and illustrators, including fellow Latinos Raúl Colón and Eric Velasquez, and met some wonderful debut authors as well. I hope it isn’t the last event like this SLJ hosts […]

Martí’s Song for Freedom has just received another starred review, this one from Shelf Awareness. The reviewer writes, “Otheguy’s text (paired with the Spanish translations by author, editor and literary agent Adriana Domínguez) is clean and concise, direct and approachable. Beatriz Vidal’s gouache illustrations burst with color and life, each illustration giving a strong sense of […]

On Thursday, July 20th we all gathered at The Corner Bookstore on 93rd & Madison to celebrate the launch of MARTÍ’S SONG FOR FREEDOM. It was wonderful to see friends, family, and colleagues, and to sing “Guantanamera,” a song whose lyrics draw on Martí’s Versos sencillos. Thank you to my cousin Arabella for playing the guitar, and to everyone who […]

I had expected the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago to feel like any other professional conference, but meeting librarians and hearing about everything they do for children was full of meaning and depth that I’ve never experienced at another conference. I loved every minute of it.