Santa Clara Public Library

Meet Christy Hale, award-winning author and illustrator of the picture book Todos Iguales/All Equal. Todos Iguales is a bilingual children's book that tells the true story of the first successful school desegregation case in the United States, which took place in Lemon Grove, CA. Todos Iguales: Un corrido de Lemon Grove/All Equal: A Ballad of Lemon Grove is written and illustrated by Christy Hale and published by Lee & Low Books. It received three starred reviews and was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association. Please join us for this book talk followed by a Q&A. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/94758589271?pwd=UmdiSkxDNmp6YXkxNzAvQVNlaDU3QT09
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Christy Hale has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children, including six that she also wrote: The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan; Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building; Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World; Todos Iguales/All Equal: Un Corrido de/A Ballad of Lemon Grove; Out the Door (October 2020); and Copycat: Nature-inspired Design Around the World (Fall 2021). An art director, designer, and educator, Hale teaches Writing for Picture Books at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She lives with her family in Palo Alto.