Public Profile

ABOUT CAROLYN DEE FLORES

• Carolyn is the author/illustrator of over 14 books for children, including the picture book The Amazing Watercolor Fish, and she wrote the short story “How to Exist in a City of Ghosts” which is featured in the upcoming book Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America which has received starred reviews from Booklist and the School Library Journal (Pub. date: Aug. 17, 2021; Philomel).

  Carolyn has a YouTube channel for kids and is currently working on a YA novel called Lineage about her two 12^th great grandmothers: Ana de Caballeria de Estrada of Aragon (granddaughter of King Ferdinand II) and Leonor Cortes Moctezuma (granddaughter of Moctezuma II).

  Kindling Words Board 

  RA -SCBWI Southwest Texas

  LasMusas Madrina

  Co-Chair TxLA Texas Authors and Illustrators Round Table

   

  Books:

  Living Beyond Borders(Contributor)/How To Exist In A City of Ghosts – (Philomel) Starred Review Booklist, School Library Journal

  Thanku: Poems of Gratitude
  (Contributor) –  Millbrook Press, Lerner, ALA List of 2020 Notable Books, Chicago Public
  Library Best of the Best Books 2019, 2020 Notable Books For A Global Society

  The Amazing Watercolor Fish – Angie Karcher’s Best in Rhyme 2018 List

  A Surprise For Teresita – Crystal Kite Finalist (Texas/Oklahoma)

  Sing, Froggie, Sing – Pinata Books

  Dale, dale, dale – Pinata Books

  Ghost Tracks of San Antonio

  Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their words, their worlds 

  Daughters of Two Nations – Mountain Press

  Awards: 

  Skipping Stones 2014 Award for Excellence in Multicultural Literature

  2014-2015 Tejas Star Reading List 

  2015-2016 Tejas Star Reading List

  Finalist for 2014 Tomas Rivera Award

  20 Most Remarkable Books of 2014

  Best 20 Latino Books From 2014

  National Picture Book Champion November 9, 2014

  Inaugural #WeNeedDiverseBooks Illustration Mentor

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