Meet the Author
Colorín Colorado invites you to meet the authors! From nursery rhymes to folk tales, these authors intricately weave stories about Hispanic culture for all to enjoy. Click the links below to find out more about the authors and what inspires them. Here you will also find streaming video interviews to watch and podcasts you can take with you wherever you go!
NEW! Lulu Delacre
Lulu Delacre has been writing and illustrating children's books for almost thirty years, striving to create quality literature. Her Latino heritage and her wide-ranging life experiences inform her books.
Alma Flor Ada
Alma Flor Ada has had a lifelong love for stories, her passion is evident in her retelling of folktales and nursery rhymes that unite generations of people from all across the Spanish-speaking world.
Francisco X. Alarcón
Francisco X. Alarcón is an award-winning poet who grew up in two countries: he spent time as a child in both Mexico and the United States. Songs he heard from his indigenous grandmother first inspired Alarcón's poetry, which he presents for readers in both English and in Spanish.
George Ancona
George Ancona travels to countries without knowing exactly who or what will be the subject of his next book. His photo-illustrated nonfiction books, often published in English and Spanish, have featured a small-town puppet maker in Mexico and a boy growing up in a Spanish-speaking barrio in San Francisco.
Pat Mora
Pat Mora is a Mexican-American author and poet. She writes short books for children about families, Mexican-American culture, and the desert.