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Mamá's Panza
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  • Published: 30 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593616420
  • Imprint: Kokila
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $44.99

Mamá's Panza

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EBook
26 Mar 2024
Audiobook
26 Mar 2024
Hardback
30 Apr 2024
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A body-positive picture book about a young boy's love for his mother and his mother's belly.

Everyone has a panza—it can be big and round, soft and small, or somewhere in between. But a young boy’s favorite panza of all is Mamá’s. Her panza is capable of remarkable things, and she loves it as an important part of herself. Her panza was also his first home. Even before he was born, it cradled and held him.

When he’s feeling shy and needs a place to hide or when he wants somewhere to rest during a bedtime story, Mamá’s panza is always there. With affirming text by Isabel Quintero and vivid art by Iliana Galvez, Mamá’s Panza is a young boy’s love letter to his mother, along with a celebration of our bodies and our bellies.
  • Published: 30 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593616420
  • Imprint: Kokila
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $44.99
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About the author

Isabel Quintero

Isabel Quintero is an award-winning writer and the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, her first YA novel, was the recipient of multiple awards, including the Morris Award for Debut YA Novel. She is also the author of chapter books and a non-fiction YA graphic biography, Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide, which was awarded the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. My Papi Has a Motorcycle earned the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, and many other recognitions.

Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX, the Sun City. His author-illustrator debut, Sundust, is a love poem to desert culture and won a Caldecott Honor. Zeke also received Ezra Jack Keats and Pura Belpré Illustration Honors for My Papi Has a Motorcycle and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for his illustrations in Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He illustrated the New York Times bestselling Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel. Zeke is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in NW Arkansas.
portrait photo of Isabel Quintero

Also by Isabel Quintero

La panza de mamá (Mamá's Panza Spanish Edition)
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
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Praise for Mamá's Panza


PRAISE FOR MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE
2019 Pura Belpre Illustration Honoree
Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Winner
2020 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award Winner
Summer 2019 Kids' Indie Next List pick
2020 ALA Notable Children's Book
2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List pick
2019 Southern California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA) Book Award Finalist
2020 White Raven International Selection