Join us on April 19th for a reading and crafts event with award-winning children's book author and illustrator Mirelle Ortega!

Mirelle Ortega is an award-winning Mexican artist and writer for kidlit and animation based in Los Angeles, California. She is the author-illustrator of River of Mariposas and Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land, for which she received a 2023 Pura Belpré Award Illustration Honor and an International Latino Book Award bronze medal. She is a prolific children’s books illustrator creating covers for best-selling middle grade series such as From The Desk of Zoe Washington, Cece Rios and Love Sugar Magic, artwork for acclaimed chapter books series such as The Mythics, Vote for Effie and Mermaids Rock and vibrant illustrations for picture books like Free to Learn, The Mermaid Princesses and Pepe and The Parade.

A copy of one of the following books will be included with the ticket purchase:

I am, Yo Soy

All of Apolonia

Pepe and The Piñata

Mamiachi & Me

Free To Learn

Mirelle Ortega Children's Book Event

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Mirelle Ortega Children's Book Event

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