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32 pp.
| Lee/Children's
| April, 2019
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Paper
ISBN 978-1-64379-058-9
$10.95
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Spanish
ISBN 978-1-64379-059-6
$10.95
Reissue (2002, Knopf)
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2)
K-3
Illustrated by
Beatriz Vidal.
This is a lightly fictionalized picture-book biography of Mexican author Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), then keeper of one of the largest libraries in the Americas. Watercolor and gouache illustrations lend a sunny, idyllic feel to Juana's Mexico. As the original
Horn Book review noted, there's no formal bibliography, but Mora acknowledges the work of "the
Sor Juanistas, scholars of Sor Juana." Appended with an author's note and glossary for interspersed Spanish words. Concurrently published with a new edition in Spanish:
Una biblioteca para Juana.
Reviewer:
Shoshana Flax
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2002;
November, 2019