May 6: Juana Medina at Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library

Saturday, May 6 at 10:30 a.m.

Juana Medina Elena Rides/ Elena Monta en Bici (A Dual Edition) / Ages 4-6 In-person at Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library In partnership with DCPL. A limited number of free copies will be available. Beginning readers—and beginning riders—will be drawn to this bright, buoyant story of a determined elephant and her loyal sidekick, from the award-winning creator of Juana & Lucas.

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Juana Medina window display at Politics and Prose

A Winter Wonderland at P&P

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Come see our new holiday window display, spanning the entire storefront at our Connecticut Avenue location! We teamed up with local children's book author and illustrator Juana Medina, who drew characters playing against a snowy backdrop exclusively for this display in her typically colorful and vibrant style. Underneath, our Holiday Countdown Calendar will reveal a new item we love each day until December 24, so keep checking to see what's new. Appropriately, our first pick for the Countdown Calendar is the picture book Juana and Lucas, by Juana Medina.

Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(5015 Connecticut Ave. NW)

(202) 364-1919

www.politics-prose.com

books@politics-prose.com

Bruce Guthrie stopped by and  took some photographs this afternoon. Click through to see more.

Juana Medina's collaboration with the Poet Laureate

Juana unveiled this on her Facebook page:

I'm thrilled to share a new collaboration we've been working on with the fantástico Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and the Library of Congress.

After months of preparation, it's time to share The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon! These adventures will evolve and come to life with the help of 2nd and 3rd graders across the country, we can't wait to see where they'll take us!

http://www.read.gov/catalinaneon/Book/#page/2/mode/2up

And here's the Library's main page on it: 

The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon
Hosted by Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2015-

About the Project

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Hello! I’m Juan Felipe Herrera, the 21st U.S. Poet Laureate. Welcome to “The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon,” a bilingual, illustrated poem created with the help of artist Juana Medina ... and you. Elementary school librarians, get your second and third grade students “neonized” and help us tell Catalina’s story to the world!
Here’s how it works: Juana and I will create the initial chapter, but that’s only half the story. At the end of the chapter, we will include a prompt and give you a month to tell us where to go next. We ask that you and your second or third grade students read the prompt, talk about it, imagine what could happen next, and collaboratively help write the next chapter of Catalina’s adventure.

First Chapter  – “Meet Catalina Neon and Her Doggy, Tortilla”

Hear it
Respond to Prompt – “Where does Tortilla go? Describe in detail—make us see, hear, and feel where Catalina’s doggy is!”

Juana and I will select a submission as a starting point for the next chapter—and you and your classes will again be invited to write the next chapter of the adventure. This process will continue five times until June 2017, when Catalina Neon’s story will be complete!

What Happens Next?

Respond to prompt - “Where does Tortilla go? Describe in detail—make us see, hear, and feel where Catalina’s doggy is!”

Juan Felipe Herrera, Photo credit: Blue Flower Arts

Juana Medina, Photo credit: Silvia Baptiste