Monica Brown is the award-winning author of Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People (Henry Holt), which won the Américas Award for Children’s Literature and an Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction, Waiting for the Biblioburro (Random House), a Christopher Award winner, and many other celebrated books for children. Her picture book, Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina (Lee & Low) received the Tejas Star Book Award, the International Latino Book Award, and a Pura Belpré Honor for Illustration. Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash/Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual, the second book in the bilingual Marisol McDonald series, releases this month, in time for Hispanic Heritage Month.