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15/05/2024

Tomorrow, don't miss our event with Diana Lopez! We'll be celebrating her new middle grade novel, LOS MONSTRUOS: Rooster and the Dancing Diablo. https://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/event/lopez-2024 Kokila Books Penguin Kids

Full of magic and adventure, this thrilling book explores the Texas-Mexico border myth of the Dancing Devil. We hope to see you there, friends!

About the book:
A thrilling follow-up to Felice and the Wailing Woman by Diana López that explores the Texas-Mexico border myth of the Dancing Devil.

The magical town of Tres Leches, home to the figures of Texas–Mexico border lore, has been through a lot. Most recently, the town was released from a curse that kept La Llorona, the wailing woman, haunting the shores of their river. But just when the townsfolk were preparing to return to sunny riverside picnics and barbecues, the children of Tres Leches mysteriously began to go missing. The town suspects another monstruo, the Dancing Devil, is luring kids to El Camarón Dance Hall & Arcade. The Dancing Devil’s son, Rooster, who has a foot in both the human and monster worlds, feels compelled to lead the search for the missing children with the help of his friends, Ava (the daughter of La Lechuza) and Felice (the daughter of La Llorona). Their journey takes them to an old gothic mansion with a twisted family history and a pull so powerful that it’s nearly impossible to resist.

Picking up where Felice and the Wailing Woman left off, Rooster and the Dancing Diablobrims with magic, adventure, and Mexican folklore, and is perfect for fans of fantasy adventure series like Paola Santiago by Tehlor Kay Mejia and the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste.

06/05/2024

Congrats to the short-listed titles for the Reading the West Book Awards! View the full category lists and vote now: https://readingthewest.com/34th-annual-voting-ballot/ Byron Graves Traci Sorell Anne Wynter Arigon Starr Kokila Books SimonKIDS HarperKids Books HarperStacks We Need Diverse Books

03/05/2024

Delighted to welcome Emeline Lee and Basia Tran to Kokila!

04/04/2024

Our friends at Kokila Books are running a Kokila Classroom giveaway! Enter to win an author visit and a classroom set of the new Spanish language edition of LAXMI'S MOOCH! Ends 4/12, 18+. US Only.

Enter here ➡ https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KokilaClassroomGiveaway

29/03/2024

03/03/2024

Exciting news! 🎉 “Rules for Rule Breaking” has been selected as a YA Best of the Month title for March on Amazon! 📚🌟 Thank you AmazonBooks I’m so grateful for this recognition. Special shoutout to Penguin Teen and Kokila Books – your support means the world! 🥰

23/02/2024

Huge congratulations to Renée Watson and Ekua Holmes!

03/02/2024

A beautiful review in the New York Times for Veera Hiranandani’s new middle grade novel, AMIL AND THE AFTER, calls it “masterly.”

14/06/2023

Come work with Team Kokila!

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28/04/2023

Elijah Pierce was a Black Mississippi folk artist born in 1892 in a log cabin. In this imagined encounter, a young Black boy gets his hair cut at...

28/03/2023

We are delighted to debut the cover of THE ARTIVIST, written and illustrated by bestselling creator Nikkolas Smith. An inspiring picture book about how children can combine art and activism in their daily lives, THE ARTIVIST tells the story of a young boy who realizes the scope of inequities in the wider world and brings together the different parts of himself—the artist and the activist—to become an Artivist. After his mural goes viral, he sets out to change the world one painting at a time. With inspiring text and stunning illustrations, THE ARTIVIST highlights the ways to be the change one wants to see in the world and how art in its many forms can be used to create that change. Coming to a bookshelf near you on September 5, 2023. Penguin Kids Penguin Classroom Kokila Books

Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/TheArtivist

05/03/2023

06/02/2023

“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, now updated with a new preface, is available in paperback today. Also available today, from Kokila Books, HOW TO BE A YOUNG ANTIRACIST by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone, and THE YOUNG ANTIRACIST'S WORKBOOK. Shop the collection today!

30/01/2023

This morning, Kings of B’more was named one of this year’s Stonewall Honor books by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Roundtable! Seeing that familiar seal on the cover is such a thrill! The Stonewall Book Awards have introduced me to so many of my most beloved reads. Thanks to the team at Kokila Books for believing in me and this story!

24/01/2023

Happy happy pub day to Leslie Kwan's picture book, A IS FOR ARETHA: 26 Trailblazing Black Women Who Changed Music From A to Z!

Out now from Kokila Books

26/10/2022

We’re thrilled to announce a new project from Renée Watson and to welcome Ekua Holmes to Kokila!

21/09/2022

Twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez has a loving family, a robust middle-school life, and an awesome best friend in her small New Mexico town, known for its love of wrestling: “Roswell had its aliens. Albuquerque had its hot air balloons. We had wrestling.” Her paleontologist mom is expecting her sec...

15/09/2022

The third starred review for Twelve Dinging Doorbells! Thank you so much, Publishers Weekly!

02/09/2022

29/08/2022

Estén atentas al lanzamiento el 8 de noviembre. Estoy súper orgullosa de que la editorial haya publicado, no solamente la versión bilingüe, sino también el libro con sólo mi traducción. El español SÍ importa en este país.
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