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Classroom Visits

Stuart Hall for Boys, October 2007: Introduced by PaperTigers, children's book illustrator, and now also author, Maya Gonzalez visited the 4th grade class at Stuart Hall for Boys, in San Francisco, to talk to the students about her work. Wearing a big smile, colorful jelwery and a paint-splashed smock, she...

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Interviews

Embracing the World's Reflections:
The Creative Expressions of Maya Christina Gonzalez
by Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo
(written for the REFORMA Fall/Winter 2009 Newsletter)
From the first moment you meet her, you realize that award-winning artist and author Maya Christina Gonzalez is very connected to the environment, embracing its peaceful beauty that has provided her a sense of belonging since she was very young. The artist's work reflects this creative connection; her three most recent books My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo (2007)...

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California Readers Interview
MEET MAYA CHRISTINA GONZALEZ by Bonnie O'Brian
What did you most like to do when you were a child?
I've always loved engaging with the creative force. I remember drawing a lot. I loved coloring books mostly because they had these great blank pages at the beginning and ending and I could draw my big, round Chicana face in there. I think I understood on some level that it was important to me to see myself in my own books. I knew that's where my face belonged and...