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Not Far From Here is a 2025 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book Winner and a 2025 International Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention!
A lovely tribute to immigrants and creativity.—Margarita Engle, Young People’s Poet Laureate Emerita and author of the Newbery Honor Book The Surrender Tree
Not Far from Here is a beautifully written and illustrated meditation on family, migration, and storytelling itself. Children will enjoy this sweet intergenerational story of hard work, belonging, and love—near or far from the places we once called home.—Monica Brown, author of Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
Order the English edition here and the Spanish edition here.
Selected as Best of 2025 Nonfiction Elementary winner from School Library Journal!
Starred review: Flowers serve as an entry point to the life and paintings of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in this enchanting picture-book biography…The illustrations wonderfully mimic Kahlo’s magic realism style…An inspiring introduction to Kahlo.—Booklist
The text itself is lively and engaging, with repetition, alliteration, and vivid language that immerses listeners in the world as Kahlo saw it—vibrant, bright, and full of life. —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Upcoming release!
The Women Before Us: Weaving Stories in My Huipil is set to publish on 08.11.2026 via Candlewick Press. More here.
Nuestras ancestras, the Spanish edition, has been selected as a Junior Library Guild gold selection and will release alongside the English edition.
More on the Spanish edition here.
Nydia Armendia-Sánchez 