On My Block
Description
The places these visual artists have chosen to represent are moving, funny, and unexpected. Readers will soar from the rooftops of South Brooklyn to the adobe-colored desert of Taos Pueblo, from a basement in San Francisco's Japantown to a Mississippi Gulf Coast porch. A garden in Mexico overflows with blossoms while another in Tehran hums with the purring of thirty-two cats, and an empty lot in a bustling Havana neighborhood is transformed into a country farm.
On My Block is a celebration of community, an homage to neighborhoods across the world, and an exploration of past and present. The fifteen gorgeous paintings and stories ask you to ponder the places that comprise your world. What's on your block, down your street, in another country, that makes up who you are?
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Dana Goldberg is a Bay Area-based writer and editor who published award-winning multicultural and bilingual picture books as Executive Editor of Children's Book Press from 2005-2011. Since then, she's been a resident wordsmith at the SFMOMA and the Exploratorium, a hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception. She co-authored The Art of Curiosity: 50 Visionary Artists, Scientists, Poets, Makers, & Dreamers Who Are Changing the Way We See Our World (Weldon Owen, 2019).
Carl Angel is a visual artist who enjoys participating in the creation of narrative media--whether it is illustration, design, or independent films. He has illustrated, designed, and art directed numerous books for young readers, including Lakas and the Manilatown Fish, Willie Wins, and Xochitl and the Flowers / Xóchitl, la Niña de las Flores, among others. He lives with his wife and son in Burbank, California. Visit his site at carlangel.com
Cbabi Bayoc is a fine artist and illustrator whose artwork reflects his love of music and family. His paintings can be found in galleries and homes around the world. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and children.