by Aida Salazar, Molly Mendoza (Illustrator)
Scholastic/Levine has acquired Aida Salazar's debut picture book, Jovita Wore Pants, the story of Jovita Valdovinos, who dressed as a man and commanded a battalion of revolutionaries in a fight for religious freedom in the Mexican sierras. The biographical picture book is based in part on personal accounts told to Salazar, who is related to Valdovinos. Debut picture book artist Molly Mendoza will illustrate. Publication is scheduled for 2020.
Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter
Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the middle-grade verse novels Ultraviolet , The Moon Within and Land of the Cranes, as well as the picture book anthology In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of American Immigrants of Color, and the Caldecott Honor Book Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter illustrated by Molly Mendoza. Salazar is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. She lives with her family of artists in Oakland, California.
Molly Mendoza is an American illustrator and comics artist who has been captivated by the relationships that she has built with friends, family, and foes alike over the course of her life. She wrote and illustrated the Ignatz and Eisner Honor-winning graphic novel Skip (Nobrow) and illustrated Freedom We Sing by Amyra León. Molly currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
ISBN: 9781338283419
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: March 07, 2023Target Age Group: 06 to 09
Pages: 48
-Valdovinos Medina, Jovita
-Cristero Rebellion, 1926-1929
-Women revolutionaries -Mexico
-History -1910-1946