About the Author

Duncan Tonatiuh's first book, Dear Primo, won the 2011 Pura Belpre Honor for Illustration, and Diego Rivera won the 2012 Pura Belpre Illustration Award. Tonatiuh lives in Mexico.

Reviews

** STARRED REVIEW**
"Younger children will be outraged by the injustice of the Mendez family story but pleased by its successful resolution. Older children will understand the importance of the 1947 ruling that desegregated California schools, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education seven years later."-- "School Library Journal"
** STARRED REVIEW**
"Tonatiuh masterfully combines text and folk-inspired art to add an important piece to the mosaic of U.S. civil rights history."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Tonatiuh (Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote) offers an illuminating account of a family's hard-fought legal battle to desegregate California schools in the years before Brown v. Board of Education."-- "Publishers Weekly"