Lighting the Candle: Bagazo and El Josco

by Raúl Colón
May 25, 2021 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators

From the May/June 2021 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The Pura Belpré Award at 25. Find more in the "Lighting the Candle" series here.

Raúl Colón

Raúl Colón won the 2006 Belpré Award for illustration for Doña Flor (Knopf) and a 2008 honor for My Name Is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito (Luna Rising). He illustrated the forthcoming Light for All (Wiseman/Simon). [Photo by Gail Gaynin / Morgan Gaynin Inc.]

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