“The Girl In the Library, The Library In the Girl is my story. The one I’ve been telling kids in schools for the last 20 years. I grew up during a time when I did NOT see ANY books that looked or sounded like me and my family or folks I knew. I think because of that, I used to draw my big, round Chicana face into the blank page in the backs of books! Eventually I began drawing a whole series of characters and later writing poems and stories. As a child I couldn’t find books that looked and sounded like me in the library, now the library has books written, illustrated, even published by me!” – Maya Gonzalez

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(Join Maya in her San Francisco studio as she reads some excerpts from two of her upcoming children’s books.The Rainbow Alphabet and The Girl in the Library, the Library in the Girl)