Humans

• Pamela Laskin (author)
• Lyn Di Iorio (author)
• Wildriana María de Jesús Paulino (translator)
• Wildriana María de Jesús Paulino (artist)

ISBN

978-1-946031-61-7

Page count

22

Keywords

Children's Book, Picture Book, Illustration, Illustrations, Drawing, Art, Fiction, Child Friendly, Family, Culture, Hurricane, Environment, Spanish, English, Spanish-English, Spanish To English, Translation, Dual Language

Publication date

2018

Language(s)

Spanish, English

Publication media type

Print Document
Translation
Dual-Language

Publication series

Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts

Marisol y El Huracán María / Monster Maria

What happens when a terrible storm threatens to destroy an island? Can one little girl, Marisol, manage to swim the ocean and save her beloved Puerto Rico? Monster Maria is a magical picture book that tells her story: a book about love, family, community and resilience. 

Sonia Manzano, Maria on Sesame Street, celebrated actress and writer, says, “Monster Maria celebrates the magic optimism in all of us.”

Cristina García, author of HERE IN BERLIN, praises Monster Maria as “A charming tale of endurance, hope and magic.”

¿Cuando una terrible tormenta amenaza con destruir a Puerto Rico, podrá una pequeña niña nadar por el océano y salvar a su querida isla?  Marisol y el Huracán María es un libro compuesto de imágenes mágicas que cuenta su historia: un libro sobre el amor, la familia, la comunidad y la resistencia.

Sonia Manzano, la célebre escritora y actriz quien protagoniza a María en Calle Sésamo, dice: “Marisol y el Huracán María celebra el optimismo mágico que todos poseemos”.

Cristina García, autora de Aquí en Berlín elogia a Marisol y el Huracán María por ser “Una encantadora historia de resistencia, esperanza y magia”.

About the Contributor(s)

Lyn Di Iorio is a fiction writer and scholar. Her novella Outside the Bones (Arte Público Press) won Foreword Review's Indies Silver Book of-the-Year award, was a top-five finalist for the 2012 John Gardner Fiction Prize, placed her on Latinostories.com's Top Ten New Latinx Writers to Watch and Read list, and was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. An early excerpt from her novel-in-progress The Sound of Falling Darkness was shortlisted for The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society's 201 Novel-in-Progress award. Her most recent short stories were published in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Routledge, 2017 and 2014) and are part of a work-in-progress, Hurricanes and Other Stories, some of which are about the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico. Her Hurricanes stories project is the focus of her work in the CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative and also won her a CUNY Office of Research Book Completion award in 2018. Her scholarly works include a book on Latinx identity called Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino Identity (Palgrave Macmillan) and two coedited books of essays on Latinx literary criticism and magical realism (also with Palgrave Macmillan). She is half-Puerto Rican, grew up on the island, and studied at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches literature and creative writing at City College and CUNY Graduate Center.

Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Several of her children's and poetry books have been published, and RONIT AND JAMIL, A Palestinian/Israeli ROMEO AND JULIET in verse, was published by Harper Collins in 2017, and was named among the 3 books to have on your radar for 2017. BEA, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children's Fiction, and HOMER THE LITTLE STRAY CAT was named among the best of the indie presses for picture books. RONIT AND JAMIL is a 2018 Sydney Taylor notable book. She is the winner of the 2018 Leapfrog Fiction contest. She teaches graduate and undergraduate children's writing. Follow her on Twitter @RonitandJamil and follow her blog: http://PamelaLaskin.blogspot.com/.

Wildriana María de Jesús Paulino (Translator and artist. B. 1999, San Fraco. Macorís, Dominican Republic). From a very young age, Wildriana has shown a great interest in the arts and the procurement of knowledge itself. During the summer of 2016, Wildriana moved to the United States. Abroad, Wildriana had greater access to cultural and artistic centers and decided to engage in multiples programs. Some of these include participation in the Expanding the Walls program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, participation in the Saturday Program of the Cooper Union, internship at Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House, and her volunteer work at Word Up Bookshop. In 2018, Wildriana graduated from high school at the City College Academy of the arts. She is currently a fine arts student at the Cooper Union.